G/TBT/N/RUS/153  
14 November 2023  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  RUSSIAN FEDERATION  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Eurasian Economic Commission  
Department for Technical Regulation and Accreditation  
Tel: +7(495)669 -24-00 
Fax: +7(495)669 -24-15 
E-mail: dept_techregulation@eecommission.org  
Website: www.eurasiancommission.org   
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Russian Scientific and Technical Center for Information on Standardization, Metrology a nd 
Conformity Assessment  
(Standartinform, National enquiry point for the TBT Agreement)  
Tel: +7(495) 531 -26-59 
E-mail: info@gostinfo.ru  
Website: www.gostinfo.ru   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Food 
products  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft 
amendments to the Technical regulation of the Customs Union "On Safety of Food 
Products" ( CU TR 021/2011) regarding the es tablishment of forms, schemes and 
procedures for conformity assessment based on standard conformity assessment 
schemes approved by the Decision of the Commission Council dated April 18, 2018 No. 
44; (40 page(s), in Russian)  
6. Description of content:  - bringing the provisions of CU TR 021/2011 in line with the 
provisions of the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union of May 29, 2014;  
- clarification of the provisions of article 4 "Definitions", Article 5 "Rules of market 
circulation", Article 6 "Identificat ion of food products" of the CU TR 021/2011;  
- from Chapter 4 "Conformity assessment" of the CU TR 021/2011, all articles not related 
to conformity assessment of food products have been moved to other chapters of the 
technical regulation;  
- establishing th e procedure for carrying out conformity assessment procedures in 
Chapter 4 of the CU TR 021/2011 "Conformity assessment" based on standard conformity G/TBT/N/RUS/153  
 
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  assessment schemes approved by the Decision of the Council of the Commission dated 
April 18, 2018 No. 44.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human life and health, prevention of actions misleading 
consumers, avoiding the possibility of double interpretation of certain provisions of the 
CU TR 021 /2011 and harmonization of conformity assessment procedures of the CU TR 
021/2011 regarding the establishment of forms, schemes and procedures for conformity 
assessment based on standard conformity assessment schemes approved by the Decision 
No. 44 of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission dated April 18, 2018  
8. Relevant documents:   
Draft amendments to the Technical regulation of the Customs Union "On Safety of Food 
Products" (CU TR 021/2011) regarding the establishment of forms, schemes and 
procedures for conformity assessment based on standard conformity assessment 
schemes approved by the Decision of the Commission Council dated April 18, 2018 No. 
44 
https://docs.eaeunion.o rg/pd/ru -ru/0108819/pd_01112023  
Customs Union "On Safety of Food Products" (CU TR 021/2011), adopted by the Decision 
of the Commission of the Customs Union No. 880 dated December 9, 2011  
https://eec.eaeunion.org/comission/department/deptexreg/tr/PischevavaProd.php  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  The expected date for the entry into force of the 
draft amendments is based on the "package" principle, namely from the date of entry into 
force of the decisions of the Eurasian Economic Commission Council providing for 
amendments to the technical regulation of the Eurasian Economic Union (Customs Union) 
"Technical Regulation for Juice Products' from Fruits and Vegetables" (TR CU 023/2011), 
"Technical Regulation for Fat and Oil Products" (CU TR 024/2011), "On Safety of Certain 
Types of Spe cialized Food Products, including Dietary Therapeutic and Dietary Preventive 
Nutrition" (CU TR 027/2011), "Safety Requirements for Food Additives, Flavorings and 
Technological aids" (CU TR 029/2012), "On Safety of Milk and Dairy Products" (CU TR 
033/2013),  "On Safety of Meat and Meat products" (CU TR 034/2013), "On Safety of Fish 
and Fish Products" (CU TR 040/2016), "On Safety of Packaged Drinking Water, including 
Natural Mineral Water" ( EAEU TR 044/2017), "On Safety of Alcoholic Beverages" (EAEU 
TR 047/20 18), "On Safety of Poultry Meat and Processed Products" (EAEU TR 051/2021) 
regarding the establishment of forms, schemes and conformity assessment procedures 
based on standard conformity assessment schemes approved by the Decision of the 
Council of the Eur asian Economic Commission of April 18, 2018. No. 44, but not earlier 
than 180 calendar days after the date of official publication of the Decision of the Eurasian 
Economic Commission Council "On Amendments to the Technical Regulation of the 
Customs Union " On Safety of Food Products" (CU TR 021/2011)".  
10. Final date for comments:  15 January 2024  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Eurasian Economic Commission  
Department for Technical Regulation and Accreditation  
Tel: + 7(495)669 -24-00 
Fax: + 7(495)669 -24-15 
E-mail: dept_techregulation@eecommission.org  
Website: www.eurasiancommission.org.   
https://docs.eaeunion.org  /ru-ru