Gosstandart and Bellegprom discussed plans to protect the Belarusian market from low-quality products

Issues of protecting the Belarusian market from low-quality products of light industry were discussed at the meeting of the Chairman of the State Standard Dmitry Basko and the Chairman of the Bellegprom Concern Nadezhda Lazarevich on October 19 in Minsk. This sb.by reported in the press service of the State Standard.

The event was also attended by deputy heads of departments, and from the side of the State Standard - heads of the profile department and the Belarusian State Institute of Standardization and Certification, informed the press service:

- Measures to improve the effectiveness of protecting the domestic market from light industry products that do not meet mandatory and stated requirements were considered. As part of the discussion, it was proposed to develop a joint action plan. Their leitmotif - the information presented on the labels of sold goods must be reliable. Then consumers will understand why clothes or shoes made of natural materials are more expensive than artificial or synthetic analogues.

Particular attention was paid to improving measures to withdraw from circulation products that were prohibited for import and circulation in the country, as well as ensuring fair competition of domestic and foreign business entities.

- In this regard, as tools, the use of digital services for traceability of product movement, registers of issued documents on assessing the conformity of goods with the requirements of technical regulations of the Customs Union, increasing liability for allowed violations was indicated, the State Standard noted.

Since the beginning of this year, the State Standard has banned the import and circulation of 140 types of dangerous light industry products. This represented 21 percent of the total number of prohibited goods. The most characteristic violations are associated with a discrepancy in terms of hygroscopicity, air permeability, stain resistance.