Kazakhstan has added a formal procedure for deciding whether a product is subject to mandatory conformity assessment. On request, an accredited certification body examines the product and issues a product identification act, or a reasoned refusal, within five working days. The act is registered in the national technical regulation register and is valid for 12 months.
The procedure was introduced by Order No. 268-NK of the Minister of Trade and Integration of 23 September 2026, which amends the Conformity Assessment Rules approved by Order No. 433-NK of 29 June 2021. The order was registered with the Ministry of Justice on 23 September 2026 under No. 39951 and takes effect sixty calendar days after its official publication, at the end of November 2026.
The act states whether a product falls under mandatory conformity assessment and, if it does, which technical regulations and which form of assessment apply. It is not a certificate or a declaration of conformity and does not confirm that the product is safe. Obtaining it is optional: it is not a precondition for starting certification work.
Identification works as follows:
- An expert auditor of the certification body analyses the technical documentation — design, technological or operating documents — and the documents showing the product's EAEU HS code.
- The expert inspects a sample. Remote inspection by photos or video is allowed when no measurements, tests, special equipment or physical access are needed to establish the identifying features.
- The act or a reasoned refusal is issued in the digital technical regulation system within five working days of receiving the sample or the materials.
- One act can cover several products of the same manufacturer that share the first four digits of the EAEU HS code.
The act is valid for 12 months from its entry in the register. If a new legal act brings the product under mandatory assessment, the certification body sets an earlier end date, the day before the new requirement takes effect.
For products whose status is unclear — at the border of a regulation's scope, or with an HS code that customs may read differently — the act gives the Kazakh importer a registered, checkable answer instead of a letter. Manufacturers can prepare the identification file once: technical documentation, the HS code, and photos or video showing the product from all sides, its nameplate, marking, packaging and configuration.
The act is a Kazakh national document. It does not exempt the product from certification in Russia or other EAEU member states, and it has to match the product actually shipped: a change in design or characteristics may require a new identification.
Source
