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Z.Y.Aslanov, S.M.Abdullayeva: The adaptation of the local private sector to the
international standards’ requirements

requirements on the safety of products, called technical regulations, are mandatory
for implementation. The product quality requirements are reflected in standards and
application of the standard is voluntary. Enterprises that want to improve the quality
of products and thus get ahead of the competition are voluntarily applying these
standards. At the same time the government limits its control by security of
products. Another important change is taking foodstuffs control out of the national
standardization system. In order to fulfill all these requirements the thousands of the
existing Azerbaijan standards will be renewed as mentioned to meet international
standards.
The aspects of adaptation of the national standardization system to meet
international requirements
In general, the adaptation of the national standardization system to the
international requirements will be implemented according to the following aspects:
• Adapting of the system itself to the principles of the market economy. Thus,
in accordance with the market economy the standardization as technical regulation
providing and applying of the mandatory requirements to the safety of the products
and standardization defining voluntary requirements to the quality of products
should be divided into two parts. This, according to the state control over the
economy and the quality of the products safety regulation limiting the market makes
it necessary to release the law of supply and demand;
• standards that form the basis of the system requirements for the products to
adapt to the requirements of international standards. It is redesigning the existing
standards to meet international standards. This is the most difficult element of the
adaptation of the standardization system. Because of the fact that standards in former
Soviet republics do not meet international requirements the tens of thousands of the
existing standards have to be redesigned;
• product safety requirements for each product, product group and its overall
safety record for technical regulations is to be developed. The former GOST
standards include safety and quality requirements for each product, and this requires
the development of standard for each product. But in international practice the
security requirements of the product are defined in terms of security parameters, not
in terms of product. So, whatever product has a security parameter this product is
applied to the relevant technical regulations;

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