Certificates for series-production and for a batch of goods: specifics while registering

Technical regulation in EAEU
Principal legal acts
List of the EAEU Technical regulations Decision of the CU Commission of May 28, 2010 No 299
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EAC Certificates and Declarations

The stages of obtaining certificates and declarations of conformity to technical regulations of the EAEU highly depend on the applied conformity assessment scheme.

In some cases, for the purpose of continuous importation of products, it is required to have the document valid for five years (series-production), and sometimes it is easier to import products in batches (some quantity of pieces of products).

Laws of the EAEU prescribe a special procedure of issue of Certificates of conformity (CoC) and Declarations of conformity (DoC) for series-produced goods and batches of products.

The below table shows peculiarities in issue of CoCs and DoCs for a batch of products and for series-production:

	Series-production	Batch of products
Applicant	Product manufacturer Representative of the manufacturer	Product manufacturer Seller (importer) Representative of the manufacturer
Production audit	Production audit is provided Quality management system certificate should be obtained (in individual cases) Surveillance is performed (for EAC certificates) Production surveillance is performed (for EAC declarations)	Production audit is not provided Quality management system certificate is not necessary Production surveillance is not performed
Sampling	Performed at the manufacturer’s finished products storage	Performed at the place where the batch is located (at the manufacturer’s finished products storage, temporary storage warehouse, bonded storage, or at the recipient’s storage in case of safe custody, in a vehicle tank)
Product tests	Usually required	Required
Document validity term	From 1 to 5 years	Usually, the CoCs and DoCs documents have an unlimited validity term, and they are applied only to the current batch of products. For each new shipment, a new document should be issued
Important documents	Agency agreement for certification	Shipping documents for the batch (contract and invoice)

Note that it is easier to obtain a certificate and declaration for a batch of products than for series-production. The reason is that a production audit is not needed to issue the documents for a batch. Therefore the issue time and financial costs reduce.

However, the series-production certificate has the advantage over batch one, since it is valid for several years (from 1 to 5 years), and this makes it possible to continuously import goods.

It is also important to note that the procedure of issue of a Certificate of conformity or Declaration of conformity highly depends on the selected conformity assessment scheme.

See also

• Certificate of state registration
• Common mark of conformity “EAC”
• List of the adopted Technical Regulations of the Customs Union/Eurasian Economic Union
• Exemption letter (EAC certification)