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Chapter 3. Standardization
Article 11. The Purposes of Standardization
Standardization shall be carried out for the purposes of:
heightening the safety level of life or health of people, property of natural or legal persons, state or municipal property, ecological safety, safety of life or health of animals and plants and assistance to observance of the requirements of technical regulations;
heightening the safety level of objects taking into account the risk of arising of extreme situations of natural and man-caused character;
assurance of scientific and technical progress;
heightening of competitiveness of products, works and services;
efficient use of resources;
technical and information compatibility;
comparability of results of researches (tests) and measurements, technical and economic-statistical data;
interchangeability of products.
Article 12. Principles of Standardization
Standardization shall be carried out according to the principles of: voluntary application of standards;
maximal responsiveness of lawful interests of the interested persons during development of standards;
application of the international standard as a basis for development of the national standard, except for the cases when such application is recognized to be impossible as a result of noncompliance of requirements of the international standards with climatic and geographical peculiarities of the Russian Federation, with technical and (or) technological peculiarities, or by other reasons, or if the Russian Federation opposed against adoption of the international standard or its separate provision in accordance with the established procedures.
inadmissibility of creation the barriers to production and circulation of products, executing of works and rendering of services in the greater degree, than it is minimally necessary for execution of the purposes specified in Article 11 of this Federal law;
inadmissibility of establishing such standards which contradict technical regulations;
assurance of conditions for uniform application of standards.
Article 13. Documents in the Field of Standardization
The following documents shall be referred to documents in the field of standardization, used in the territory of the Russian Federation:
national standards;
rules of standardization, norms and recommendations in the field of standardization;
classifications applied in accordance with the established procedure, all-Russian classifiers of technical and economic and social information;
standards of organizations.
Article 14. National Standards Body of the Russian Federation, Technical Committees on Standardization
1. National standards body of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as national standards body) shall:
affirm national standards;
adopt the program of development of national standards;
organize the expertise of draft national standards;
ensure the conformity of national standardization system to the interests of the national economy, to condition of material basis and scientific and technical progress;
realize the registration of national standards, rules of standardization, norms and recommendations in this area and shall ensure their availability for the interested persons;
create technical committees on standardization and shall coordinate their activity;
organize publication and distribution of national standards;
participate, according to charts of the international organizations, in development of the international standards and shall ensure the taking into account of interests of the Russian Federation in process of their adoption;
affirm the image of a mark of conformity to national standards;
represent the Russian Federation in the international organizations carrying out activity in the field of standardization.
2. The government of the Russian Federation shall define the body, authorized for execution of functions of national standards body.
3. With a view of this Article the publication of the national standard by national standards body shall be understood as the publication of the national standard in Russian in the print and in general-purpose information system in electronic-digital format.
4. The technical committees on standardization may include, on an equal footing and voluntary basis, the representatives of federal executive bodies, scientific organizations, self-regulated organizations, public associations of businessmen and customers.
The order of creation and functioning of technical committees on standardization shall be affirmed by national standards body.
The sessions of technical committees on standardization shall be open.
Article 15. National Standards, All-Russian Classifiers of Technical and Economic and Social Information
1. The national standards and all-Russian classifiers of technical and economic and social information, including the rules of their development and application, represent the national standardization system.
2. The national standards shall be developed in the order established by this Federal law. National standards shall be affirmed by national standards body according to rules of standardization, norms and recommendations in this area.
The national standard shall be applied on a voluntary basis similarly and to equal extent irrespective of the country and (or) place of a product origin, processes of production, operation, storage, transportation, marketing and utilization, executing of works and rendering of services, types or peculiarities of bargains and (or) the persons being manufacturers, executors, sellers, purchasers.
Application of the national standard shall be confirmed by a mark of conformity to the national standard.
3. The all-Russian classifiers of technical and economic and social information (hereinafter referred to as all-Russian classifiers) are the normative documents arranging the technical and economic and social information according to its classification (classes, groups, types, etc.). The classifiers are obligatory for application when creating the state information systems and information resources and during interdepartmental information interchange.
The order of development, adoption, enactment, maintenance and application of all-Russian classifiers in socio economic area (including forecasting, statistical account, bank activity, taxation, interdepartmental information exchange, creation of information systems and information resources) shall be established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
Article 16. Rules of Development and Approval of National Standards
1. National standards body shall develop and approve the program of development of national standards. The national standards body shall ensure the availability of the program of development of national standards to the interested persons for familiarization.
2. Any person may be the developer of the national standard.
3. The notification about development of the national standard shall be addressed to national standards body and shall be published in general-purpose information system in electronic-digital format and in the print of federal executive body on technical regulating. The notification about development of the national standard shall contain the information on those provisions, contained in draft national standard, which differ from provisions of the appropriate international standards.
The developer of the national standard shall ensure availability of draft national standard to the interested persons for familiarization. The developer is obliged, on demand of the interested person, to grant him the copy of draft national standard. The payment for granting of the specified copy may not exceed an expenditure for its manufacture.
In case the developer of the national standard is the federal executive body, the payment for granting the copy of draft national standard shall be effected to the federal budget.
4. The developer shall update the draft national standard in view of written notices of the interested persons, shall carry out public discussion of the draft national standard and shall make the list of written notices of the interested persons with summary of the notices contents and results of their discussion.
The developer is obliged to save written notices of the interested persons up to approval of the national standard and to represent them to national standards body and technical committees on standardization upon their inquiries.
The period of public discussion of draft national standard from the date of publication of notification about development of draft national standard up to the date of publication of notification about completion of public discussion may not be less than two months.
5. The notification about completion of public discussion of draft national standard shall be published in the print of federal executive body on technical regulating and in general-purpose information system in electronic-digital format.
From the date of publication of notification about completion of public discussion of draft national standard the updated draft national standard and the list of written notices of the interested persons shall be available for the interested persons for familiarization.
6. The order of publication of notification about development of draft national standard and notification about completion of public discussion of draft national standard and the amount of payment for their publication shall be established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
7. Draft national standard simultaneously with the list of written notices of the interested persons shall be represented by the developer to technical committee on standardization, which organizes the conducting of expertise of the given draft.
8. On the basis of documents, specified in Clause 7 of this Article, and taking into account the expertise results the technical committee on standardization shall prepare the motivated proposal on approval or rejection of draft national standard. The given proposal shall be addressed to national standards body simultaneously with the documents and expertise results specified in Clause 7 of this Article.
The national standards body on the basis of documents, represented by technical committee on standardization, shall make a decision on approval or rejection of the national standard.
The notification about approval of the national standard is subject to publication in the print of federal executive body on technical regulating and in general-purpose information system in electronic-digital format within thirty days from the date of the approval of the national standard.
In case the national standard is rejected, the motivated decision of national standards body with attachment of the documents, specified in Clause 7 of this Article, shall be addressed to developer of the draft national standard.
9. The national standards body shall affirm and publish in the print of federal executive body on technical regulating and in general-purpose information system in electronic-digital format the list of national standards which may be applied on a voluntary basis for observance of the requirements of technical regulations.
Article 17. Standards of Organizations
1. Standards of organizations, including the mercantile, public, scientific, self-regulated organizations and associations of legal persons may be developed and affirmed by them independently proceeding from necessity of application of these standards for the purposes specified in Article 11 of this Federal law, for perfecting of production and quality assurance of product, executing of works, rendering of services, and also for spreading and using of results of researches (tests), measurements and developments, obtained in different fields of knowledge.
The order of development, approval, registration, amendment and cancellation of standards of organizations shall be established by them independently taking into account the provisions of Article 12 of this Federal law.
The draft standard of organization may be represented by the developer to technical committee on standardization, which organizes the expertise of the given draft. On the basis of expertise results of the given draft the technical committee on standardization shall prepare the conclusion, which is addressed to developer of this draft standard.
2. Standards of organizations shall be applied similarly and to equal extent irrespective of the country and (or) place of a product origin, production processes, operation, storage, transportation, marketing and utilization, executing of works and rendering of services, types or peculiarities of bargains and (or) persons being manufacturers, executors, sellers or purchasers.
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