. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/KGZ/5 
14 September 2007 
 (07-3840) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   KYRGYZ REPUBLIC
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Economic Development and Trade 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:    
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [    ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:   already  
adopted under Article  5 
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   - 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:    
Title: Decree on the Accreditation of Conformity Assessment Bodies 
Decree #795 of 16 November 2006 
Languages: Kyrgyz and Russian;  English (unofficial translation of procedure only, not full 
Decree) (11 pages, in Russian, 14 pages in English). 
6. Description of content:    
Establishes:  
1. National Accreditation System : NAS (describes all institutional arrangements);  
2. Council for Accreditation of Conformity Assessment Bodies  (independent public-
private sector council to plan, monitor and recommend heads of CA bodies)  
3. Kyrgyz Accreditation Centre (to develop and implement the NAS; reports to 
Council). 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:    
1. To set up the Kyrgyz Accreditation Centre, givi ng it full institutional status in legal and 
organisational terms and appointing it the na tional body for accreditation of conformity 
assessment bodies of the Kyrgyz Republic. 
2. To establish that this national body work shall be responsible for accreditation of 
certification bodies and testing laboratories that work in the sphere of obligatory certification. 
3. To establish that the Kyrgyz Republic sh all conclude bilateral and multilateral 
agreements on mutual recognition of accreditation results of foreign accreditation 
bodies in accordance with established procedure. G/TBT/N/KGZ/5 
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  Accreditation conducted by foreign accreditati on bodies which are members of ILAC and 
IAF  is recognized 
8. Relevant documents:    
Title: Decree on the Accreditation of  Conformity Assessment Bodies  
Original Russian version available at website below. Unofficial English summary available 
from Enquiry Point. 
 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    16 November 2006 
16 December 2006 
10. Final date for comments:   - 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
National Enquiry Point for Technical Regulation and Conformity Assessment Procedures  
Technical Regulation and Conformity Assessment Enquiry Point Technical Regulation Department Ministry of Economic Development and Trade Government of the Kyrgyz Republic 
 
Tel: +(996) 312 621190/621937 Fax: +(996) 312 661837 Email: UTR307@yandex.ru Website: www.minpromtorgtur.kg; www.toktom.kg