Meeting of CEO of GOST R Anton Shalaev with the representatives of German enterprises working in the Russian market was held in the format of video conference on 20 January 2022. Current meeting was organized by the Eastern Committee of German Economy in which more than 60 representatives of German business, employees of FSBI «RST», German Institute for Standardization (DIN), German Commission for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (DKE), Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE) took part.
The dialogue was devoted to relevant matters of standardization and metrology with which German enterprises faced working in the Russian market.
Markus Riegel, Director on Technical Regulation and Standardization in Siemens AG, performed as a moderator of the session. Welcome speech was provided by Michael Harms, Executive Director of the Eastern Committee of German Economy.
CEO of GOST R Anton Shalaev highlighted the importance of making dialogue in the field of technical regulation and development of common technical language both in terms of determination of the requirements in standards and inspection of these requirements in the framework of testing and conformity assessment.
«Russian Standardization Institute» (FSBI «RST») was presented by the Deputy Director General Alexey Ivanov and Director of the International Cooperation Department Julia Tufanova.
The below-mentioned points were covered during the session: Russian legislation in the field of standardization and metrology, activities of technical committees on standardization, procedure of the development of standards and opportunities of participation of German manufacturers working in the Russian market. Separate matters of discussion were devoted to the ways of harmonization of digital initiatives of Russia and Germany in the field of standardization including standards of digital production, artificial intelligence, digital twins of goods and virtual testing.