WTO TBT/SPS Russian Information Center on Standardization, Certification and Overcoming Technical Barriers to Trade

   WTO TBT/SPS Russian Information Center on Standardization, Certification and Overcoming Technical Barriers to Trade carries out informational support concerning provision of the activities on the procedure of entering of the Russian Federation into the World Trade Organization (WTO). All procedures of informational support are executed by the Russian Enquiry Point (TBT/SPS) WTO which provides implementation of the provisions of the WTO TBT/SPS Agreements. Russian Enquiry Point (TBT/SPS) WTO remains within the structure of the Russian Standardization Institute (FSBI “RSI”).

   Main function of the WTO TBT/SPS Russian Information Center on Standardization, Certification and Overcoming Technical Barriers to Trade is prompt provision of the regulations, directives, international, national and foreign national standards, systems of certification to the bodies of legislative and executive authorities, enterprises and organizations of the Russian Federation. WTO TBT/SPS Russian Information Center on Standardization, Certification and Overcoming Technical Barriers to Trade also provides the WTO Secretariat and other Countries - Parties of the WTO TBT/SPS Agreements with active and being developed national regulations and standards for the purposes of overcoming technical barriers to the international trade.

   WTO TBT/SPS Russian Information Center uses informational resources of the Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology (GOST R) and resources of other federal bodies of executive authorities that develop and approve normative acts and documents, carry out supervising functions in terms of meeting the requirements on safety of goods, processes and services.

   Experience of forming such centers in foreign countries was taken into consideration during the process of establishment of the WTO TBT/SPS Russian Information Center on Standardization, Certification and Overcoming Technical Barriers to Trade.

   WTO TBT/SPS Russian Information Center on Standardization, Certification and Overcoming Technical Barriers to Trade has been operating since 1997 and nowadays it is fulfilling all the functions that are defined by the WTO TBT/SPS Agreements.