 Some information about
GOST Certification.
GOST is the valid quality certification
system in Russian Federation. ( With the other words, it is called
GOST-R Certification) GOST is very important for Russian companies and
exporters to the Russia and carries the same meaning of ISO 9000 series
certificates for the western companies. GOST is the approved quality
indicator for Russia.
GOST Certification is not only engaged
with the quality management of the subject company, but also focused the
products of it. With the other words, to obtain of this certificates the
tests of samples are necessary. These test are made on accredited
laboratories by GOSSTANDARD. ( Russian Governmental Standards
Organization) According to these tests the certificates are given to the
willing company.
On the certificates, these information
can be found:
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Who is authorized to obtain
these certificates?
The authorization of Certification is applied to Russian Governmental
Standards (GOSSTANDART) and other accredited specialized Certification
Organs and accredited Test Laboratories. For obtaining of these
certificates, the production system analysis and the products of related company should be checked and
investigated for the conformity of Russian norms by the authorized
auditors. Also you will need to present some official documents,
confirming production quality, and samples of products. Production will
be tested accordingly Russian Federation standards of quality. The
Certificate Organs are under strict control of GOSSTANDART that is why
all the documents and products are carefully tested. These Organs are
situated mainly in Moscow; each Organ has its own area, where it can
make Certification.
The Certification Organs are entitled to give Certificates only for the
products, belonging to their accredited area. For example, Organs for
food Certification cannot give a Certificate for textile products. To
get a Certificate for textile products, you will need to apply to Organ
entitled for this type of Certification; they should have inspectors on
textile products and Test Laboratories.
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Why is this necessary?
If you are going to arrange export to Russia, you will need this
Certificate. Here European ISO 9000 is not valid yet, and the only
official standard is GOST-R – most well-known and popular among
customers.
Usually Certificate is necessary for two cases: 1. customs office 2.
Realisation of products at Russian market. This Certificate is announced
as the necessary document for customs at crossing the boarder and for
wholesale stores if tax inspection is taken place. That is why Russian
organizations and export-companies cannot work with non-certified
products. The Certificate for building materials is also one of the
necessary conditions for the object to be accepted by government
commission. Certificate for equipment should be made for every factory
or plant and service organisations.
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Is this the requirement of Russian Customs?
Yes. On October 1, 2000 Russian Governmental Customs committee issued an
order that Certificate of Conformity is needed for some of exported
products and equipments. However, not all the products have to be
certified – the list of the products, where Certification is not
necessary, is published by Governmental Customs committee every half of
the year. “Letter of Refusement” is required for such products, it is
issued by a special Certification Institute.
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Is this Certificate valid in other CIS countries?
Russian Certificate is valid also in Belarus, Georgia and Kazakhstan.
Till the middle of 80-th there was general GOSSTANDART in our country,
and it was used by all the republics of ex-USSR. Now many of them
continue to work with some standards from that period and Russian
Certificate still has a very big value here.
However, Russian GOST Certificates is not valid in Ukraine! They have
own system called UkrSEPRO.
More Information about UkrSEPRO >>
All Russian and foreign manufactures, making products on the territory
of CIS and Baltic countries, have to get Certificates for their products
and equipment.
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How Certificate can be used ?
You will make copies of the Certificate original, than you will set
there your company seal and write “true copy”. Now you can use these
copies at Russian market – for wholesalers and customers. Original-copy
of Certificate is necessary for Russian customs – this is a copy,
approved by Russian notary or at Russian consulate abroad. The
Certificate is accurately checked at Russian customs, as well in shops
and wholesale stores. Sometimes in Russian customs there is chemical
contents verification – and for these purposes we have a Hygienic
Certificate, issued by SES (sanitary epidemical station).
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What does it mean
"Certificate for Serial production during 3 years " ?
Certificate Organs, accredited in GOSSTANDART, are entitled to give
Certificates for serial production during 3 years. Having such
Certificate, manufacturer gets an opportunity to deliver their products
in Russia during 3 years. This Certificate looks like all others, but
there are some special features:
*any manufacturer from any country can get such Certificate.
*One of the necessary conditions is to arrange inspectors visit for
checking production process and getting products samples.
*Certificate is valid only for products listed there. All other products
of this manufacturer cannot be delivered to Russia with this
Certificate.
*to get this Certificate it is necessary to check level of production,
products quality and its hygienic features.
*Certificate is valid during 3 years.
Accordingly Russian Federation laws, every year Certificate Organ has to
make “Inspecting Control” visits.
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What does it mean
"Certificate for Serial production during 1 year" ?
This Certificate for serial production – but it is valid during 1 year
only. To get such Certificate it is necessary:
*visit of inspectors is not necessary, that helps to avoid some expenses
and it makes this option cheaper.
*products samples have to be tested to find out quality level (If
products cannot be brought to Test Laboratory, it is checked through
technical documentation.)
*official documents of manufacturer including company registration,
brand, copy of ISO 9000 Certificate, act from local Chamber of Commerce
indicating main activities of the company.
Usage of Certificate during 1 year is similar to 3 year one, the
difference is only in duration.
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What does it mean
"Certificate for single delivery " ?
This Certificate is for manufacturers, arranging single delivery of
products to Russia. To get such Certificate – you will not need to
present samples, only documentation is required. This is the cheapest
option of Certification, it can be used if there is an appropriate
customer in Russia and it is issued for exact quantity of products.
Foreign manufacturer cannot use this Certificate for sale of his
products to other customer.
To get such Certificate it is necessary :
*The list of products for Certification and International Customs Tariff
codes.
*Quantity of products for delivery.
*Technical information about products – specification has to be
presented on 2-3 pages.
*Information about import-company, including address, telephone and
contact person.
*Copy of export-import contact.
*Copy of Invoice.
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What does it mean "Letter of
Refusement" ?
The list of products, where Certification is not necessary, is published
by Government Customs committee every half of the year. For such
products “Letter of Refusement” has to be presented, it is issued by
special institution of Certification. In this letter it is set a number
of contract and Invoice, quantity of products for delivery and so on.
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What is GOSSTROY Certificates ?
GOSSTROY Certificates are issued for building materials.
GOSSTROY is a separate organisation, similar to GOSSTANDART, the
procedure of getting such Certificate is about the same as for GOST
Certificate. Only special Organs accredited in GOSSTROY are entitled to
issue these Certificates.
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Which procedure should be applied for obtaining Certificates?
Firstly, address to our nearest office by phone, fax or email.
*You will fill-in some special forms – we will need to get detailed
information and replies to all our questions!
*Technical documentation can be received in written or sent by email or
through Internet.
*You will send us copies of valid certificates (ISO 9000 and so on)
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Attention! Important information!
If you did not fulfil 3 items
mentioned above, we could not calculate the price for Certification of
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*After dealing with your documentation, we will send you commercial
offer with all the terms, conditions and price for Certification.
*If you agree with our offer, we will send typical contract.
*After signing of contract and pre-payment of 50% total price, in 10-15
days inspectors from Moscow will visit your company to make analysis of
production.
*Before inspectors come you will get the list of documents to be
prepared for their visit.
*Inspectors will work during 1-2 days and manager of quality department
will have to reply their questions.
*Inspectors will choose some samples for testing of products quality in
Moscow. After testing of products, Certificate will be issued during
10-15 days.
*After Certificate delivery you will have to pay last 50% of total
price.
*Certificate price includes air-tickets for inspectors, their
accommodation, business travel allowance, Russian guide service. All
these items will be provided by our staff. You will get complete
Certificate! All the expenses for sample delivery are not included into
the total price!
*Certification process usually takes about 40-45 days.
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Which documents should be prepared by the company before the inspection
?
The main reason, why Russian Experts come to your company – is to check the
stable production process.
Analysis of production is similar to the one,
arranging for ISO 9000 Certificate. Here copies of the next documents
are needed :
1. General information about company (yearly production volume, entire
territory of production, number of staff in each department and so on)
2. Main establishment contract of the company, tax registration Act,
3. Approved registration document for trade mark,
4. Copy of ISO 9000 Certificate or local Certificate of quality,
normative documents with standards for products,
5. Description of incoming row-materials control procedure and its
issues,
6. Description of production steps process control and its issues for
each operation,
7. Description of completed production quality control and its issues,
8. List of main suppliers and their Quality Certificates, Declarations,
9. Organisation chart of the company (here is the related person for
quality should be directly responsible to the General Director of the
firm).
10. The program of maintenance and repairing of the main equipment for
the production. On this program should be shown as: Name of the
machinery, their trade mark, country of origin, frequency of maintenance
period, former and future maintenance and repairing time.
11. The program of the calibration of measuring instruments and
equipment. On this program should be shown as: Name of the equipment,
the place where it is used, trade mark, country of origin, frequency of
calibration period, former and future calibration time. Accreditation
Certificates of calibration organization and related reports should be
added to this program.
12. User manuals, guarantee labels, stickers, etc. should be copied and
prepared.
*****To get more detailed information please check "Act of Production
Analysis".
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Till today, I exported my goods to Russia, nobody asked me for this
certificate!
It happened because you did not know about this Certificate! But it
exists more than ten years!
Your Russian customers already know this
Certificate and they solved this problem without your knowledge...
Because of non-certified products, may be you lost many of your chances to sale products at
Russian market. Using this Certificate you will really increase the
number of your clients.
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I have ISO 9000 Certificate or CE Sign – are
they not enough ?
Unfortunately, not! Even if you have a translation of this Certificate
into Russian, it is not valid in Russia. Here the only official
Certificate is GOST-R, Hygienic Certificate and Fire Certificate. At the
moment ISO 9000 is not known here very well, and it is almost not being
asked by Russian customers at all.
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I have no ISO 9000 or any other quality certificate, in spite of this, may I
obtain GOST Certificate for my goods ?
To get GOST-R Certificate you will not need ISO 9000, that is why any
manufacturer can get Russian Certificate of Conformity. But if you
already have ISO 9000, it will be easier for you to prepare all the
information for GOST Certificate, because similar documents are
necessary for analysis of production, required for inspectors.
For GOST-R Certificate it does not matter how many staff you have in the
company.
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What does it mean Hygienic Certificate ?
Hygienic Certificate is given by specialized Laboratories, accredited in
Ministry of Health of Russian Federation, after checking products for
poisons, chemical contents and so on. Products, where Hygienic
Certificate is necessary, are listed in GOST, - including food, hygienic
products, cosmetics and cloths. To get Certificate of Conformity for
such products, you will need to get Hygienic Certificate firstly.
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Sample of Hygienic Certificate.
Please click here.
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What does it mean Fire Certificate ?
Fire Certificate is required for some products and equipment, mostly it is
given after checking their burning level. All the products, where Fire
Certificate is necessary is listed in GOST, including rock-wool, power
cables, fire-fighting equipment, fireproof doors, home appliances and so
on.
To get Certificate of Conformity for such products, you will need to
get Fire Certificate firstly.
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Sample of Fire-Fighting Certificate.
Please click here.
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What is the "Annual Inspection"? In which
conditions it will be executed ?
Accordingly to Russian Federation legislation, "Annual Inspection" for
Certificates should be executed
for all the manufacturers, having Certificates for Serial production
during 3 years. For companies, having Certificate for Serial production
during 1 year or for single delivery, such inspections are not needed.
Company-manufacturer will automatically accepted to cover (one and two
years after) all the expenses for inspectors visit,
sending samples and laboratory tests. All these conditions are mentioned
in separate contact, signing after Certificate is given. The Certificate
of Conformity will be cancelled if the company refused to arrange annual
inspection. In this case, accredited Certification Organ sends letters
to Government Customs Committee (GTK) and GOSSTANDART and notifies about
termination of the Certificate. Than Certificate cannot be used any more
on the territory of Russian Federation and its customs.
E-marketci will get Certificate for your company, and upon your request
we could also help with arranging of Annual Inspection. We will remind
to you and Certificate Organ about this inspection, we will organize the
trip, tests and so on, for these purposes additional agreement for
contract is fulfilled. E-marketci is well experienced in holding such
dealings and we will really help you to arrange this inspection.
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