Russian media reports say Russia and Tajikistan have reached an agreement on mutual recognition of standards and technical regulations. A technical regulation is a document stipulating conditions that is mandatory.
Russian state-run news agency TASS reported yesterday afternoon that Rosstandart (Russia’s Federal Technical Regulation and Metrology Agency) and the Agency for Standardization, Metrology, Certification and Trade Inspection of Tajikistan have signed an agreement on the mutual recognition of standards and technical regulations.
According to TASS, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, who is also the Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia and also Chairman of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Interstate Commission for Military and Economic Cooperation (ICMEC), stated this in Dushanbe on April 27 following the ICMEC meeting.
“The agreement between the two agencies on the mutual recognition of standard and technical regulation was signed on the sidelines of today’s meeting of the Commission,” Manturov was cited as saying.
According to him, “this also lays groundworks for the unified industrial policy and unification of approaches within the framework of the CSTO.
