Tiraspol, 12 January. /Novosti Pridnestrovya/. «Standards determine the country's level of technical production and development. They show the general technical level of its industry, agriculture and economy. Therefore, if there are low standards, low quality products may pour into the country. The higher are requirements, the better are products," said the president of Pridnestrovie's Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Yury Ganin, on Radio 1.
All the major trading partners of Pridenstrovie, including neighbouring countries, use the system of technical regulations. Our country uses the system of GOSTs (state standards). A draft law On technical regulation, worked out in Pridnestrovie, which is expected to replace the current laws On standardisation (approved in 1994) and On the certification of products and services (approved in 1995), has been sent back by the Supreme Council for revision.
The difficulty is that Pridnestrovian economic agents sell products to both EU and Customs Union markets, where different requirements may be applied. Russian and EU manufacturers, in turn, would like their goods to face no barriers in the Pridnestrovian market as the national system of technical regulation keeps under control both the quality of produced goods and the compliance of imported products with the regulations, noted Yury Ganin.
«There is a difficult task before us. Our system of technical regulations must meet the requirements and interests of our major partners, observing the balance of interests. A Russian certification centre may be opened here to facilitate the access of our goods to the Russian market. And first of all, we could implement the technical regulations used in Russia and the Eurasian Union which are harmonised with the EU regulations," says the CCI president.
