EAC Certificate. Certificate of Conformity in Customs Union

Customs Union Certificate of Conformity is needed for exporting certain group of products.  Currently there are nearly 30 Technical Regulations and for the products covered in these regulations, either certificate or declaration must be issued. EAC Certificate stands for EurAsian Certificate formerly known as Customs Union Certificate 

What products are covered by the Certificate of Conformity

Depend on a regulation which applies different products must be certified in a form of certification. For example:

• some children clothes;
• lingerie, underwear;
• household electronic equipment;
• lighting equipment;
• pressure devices;
• devices working in explosion proof areas;

To determine what document is needed (if any) for your product you should address to the specific technical regulation. Some popular technical regulations and list of products subject to certificate of conformity:

• TR for child products (CU TR 007/2011):RU.pdf
• TR for toys (CU TR 008/2011):RU.pdf
• TR for light industry products (CU TR 017/2011):RU.pdf
• TR On safety of low-voltage equipment (CU TR 004/2011):English without hs codes.pdf,RU.pdf
• Safety of elevators (CU TR 011/2011):RU.pdf
• TR on safety of devices working under pressure (CU TR 032/2013)

How to obtain Certificate of Conformity

Contrary to obtaining the declaration of conformity in Customs Union, applying for certificate is more complicated procedure. Usually the samples of the products must be sent to laboratory and in case of serial production for more than one year factory inspection might be needed. Lead time of issuing certificate is 2 weeks. Price of single shipment certificate starts from 600 EUR.

Sample of customs union certificate and mark which should be applied after certification is complete