New Law On Standardization To Come Into Effect

On 16 July 2019, Law No 1587-VQ of the Republic of Azerbaijan, On Standardization, dated 17 May 2019 was promulgated. The Law will enter into force in 90 days and will, as of 14 October, replace the previous Law No 60-IQ, On Standardization, dated 16 April 1996.

The Law sets out some of the purposes of standardization and includes among others the following:

creation of unrestricted turnover of goods and elimination of unnecessary technical obstacles in international trade; ensuring technical, technological and informational compatibility of goods and their spare parts; adaption of state standards to international standards and ensuring state economic interests are considered in regional and international standardization; and protection of state interests during procurement. In addition to the said purposes some of the following standardization principles were introduced:

preparation and adoption of standardization normative documents based on consensus of interested parties; transparency of standardization; application of science, technological achievements, advanced experience and technologies in the development of standardization documents; elimination of inconsistencies between various standardization documents; preventing adoption of standardization documents damaging human life and health, environment, property and state interests; considering consumers' expectations and market's demands; and voluntary nature of standards. Moreover, the Law reduced the list of standardization documents and the same are now limited to technical requirements, national, regional, interstate and international standards, as well as standards of foreign countries. Technical-economic and social-informative classifications, enterprise standards, standards approved by science-technological and engineering societies and other public associations are no longer considered standardization documents.

In addition to the above, important provisions related to adoption of state standards were introduced. That is to say, the documents relevant to the proposed state standards must be published on the official website of the state standardization body and public discussions in connection thereto shall take place during 60 calendar days on the said official website. A technical committee must review each opinion expressed during this timeline and provide in one month a grounded response to the author of the opinion.

Technical committees approve the state standards based...

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