The Parties, for the purpose of ensuring in the interest of compatibility of produce, its safety for human health and with the aim of environmental protection, willing to promote cooperation in the sphere of standards and certification systems, have agreed to cooperate in the following fields: (a) mutual acknowledgement of the national standardization, certification and accrediting systems (art. 1); (b) acknowledgement of test results, certification methods and compliance certificates; (c) acknowledgement of the state testing and certification laboratories; (d) elaboration of common policy with the environmental institutions related to certification of produce (art. 3). Each Party shall apply in case of necessity on its own territory the state standards of the other Party (art. 2). The Parties shall conduct coordinated policy and shall render mutual assistance within the framework of international standardization, metrology and certification organizations (art. 7).
Belarus, Kazakhstan · 1999-05-28