Certification of Products in Russia

The full list of equipment requiring mandatory certification is given in the Regulation of the RF Government "On Approving the List of Goods, Works, and Services Subject to Mandatory Certification" dated August 13, 1997 № 1013.  

Certification of equipment can be carried out in independent Russian certification centres which perform the necessary testing and exercise their expert judgement to assess the compliance of the equipment in question with the statutory norms and standards.

An official Compliance Certificate "GOST R", may be issued only by the certification centres accredited by Gosstandard RF (the Governmental Standards Organisation of the Russian Federation). 

In order to obtain certification for imported equipment it is necessary to submit the following documents:

    * Operation manual;
    * Equipment passport (if available);
    * International standard certificate (a copy);
    * The letter confirming the authority (Power of Attorney) from the manufacturer in favour of the supplier, or a copy of a procurement contract. 

All documents must be submitted in Russian. It is mandatory that the translation is officially verified. Certification of certain  types of equipment requires additional official documents: hygienic certificate (sanitary-epidemiological conclusion certificate), fire safety certificate, etc.