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By Aygul Salmanova

A meeting of Azerbaijan’s parliamentary committee on economic policy, industry and entrepreneurship was held in Baku on February 14.

The draft of the new “Law on Standardization” was discussed during the session.

The new law consists of six sections and 27 articles. The law defines the goals and principles of standardization, the preparation, adoption and application of normative documents in the field of standardization, sources of financing standardization activities and other issues.

Under the document, the work planning on preparation of state standards will be carried out on the basis of a three-year national standardization program, which should be formed, approved and published by the national standardization body.

The draft reads that state standards will be marked with the 'AZS' sign.

The law, if adopted at the plenary session of the Azerbaijani Parliament, will enter into force 90 days after the publication.

Furthermore, Azerbaijan may introduce technical regulation.

This is stipulated by the draft “Law on Technical Regulation”, discussed the meeting.

The law consists of four sections and 18 articles. The law reflects the general concept of technical regulation, the goals and principles of technical regulation, legislation in this area, the scope of the law, state obligations, general requirements for technical regulations, requirements for their structure and content, as well as other issues.

In accordance with the draft law, the technical regulation will be aimed at ensuring protection of life and health of population, as well as protection of environment, property and interests of the state.

It is noted in the draft law that the state should determine the main directions of its policy in this sphere, create and ensure operation of the technical regulation system, adopt and improve technical regulations, supervise their compliance, and remove from circulation the goods that don’t meet the requirements of this law and technical regulations.

The law will be applied to products the list of which will be approved by the relevant executive authority, related processes and methods of production, assessment of compliance of these products and their manufacture processes with the requirements, as well as with the obligations regarding terminology, symbols, packaging, labels, storage, transportation and recycling.

In accordance with the draft law, measures to supervise the products that don’t meet the requirements of the technical regulations will be conducted by the relevant executive authority.

Technical regulations should be prepared and adopted within seven years after the entry into force of this law. The law, if adopted at the plenary session of the Azerbaijani Parliament, will come into force 30 days after publication.

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