GOST Standards Russian Federation

About Agency
Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology is included in the system of federal executive bodies of the Russian Federation and is under jurisdiction of Ministry of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation.
It was formed by Decree No. 649, dated May 20, 2004, of the President of the Russian Federation "Issues of Federal Executive Bodies Structure".

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Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology is the federal executive body that realizes the functions on rendering state services, administration of public estate in the field of technical regulating and metrology. Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology carries out the licensing of activity with respect to manufacture and maintenance of measurement instrumentation and also implements the functions on the state metrological control and supervision until there are changes in the Russian Federation legislation. Federal Agency also controls and supervises the compliance of mandatory requirements of state standards and technical regulations until the Government of the Russian Federation makes the decision on delegating these functions to other federal executive authority.
Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology acts directly through its territorial bodies and organizations under its jurisdiction.

MAIN OBJECTIVES
- realization of functions of the national standards body;
- ensuring of uniformity of measurements;
- conducting of works on accreditation of certification bodies and test laboratories;
- implementation of state control (supervision) over observation of the requirements of technical regulations and obligatory requirements of standards;
- creation and maintenance of the federal information corpus of technical regulations and standards and the unified system of technical regulating;
- implementation of organizational and methodical guidance over maintenance of the Federal system of products codification for the federal state needs;
- organization of work on registration of damnification cases as a result of violation of technical regulation requirements;
- organizational and methodical provision of a contest for a prize of the Russian Federation Government in the field of quality and other contests in the field of quality;
- rendering state services in the sphere of standardization, technical regulating and metrology.