The State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of Belarus (Gosstandart) was established according to the Decree No. 289 of the President of the Republic of Belarus of 05.05.2006 «Оn the structure of the Government of the Republic of Belarus» by force of fusion of the Committee for standardization, metrology and certification under the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus, Committee for energy efficiency under the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus and the Department of the state constructional surveillance under the Ministry of Architecture and Construction of the Republic of Belarus.
At present Gosstandart is the republican public authority carrying out a common governmental policy in technical regulation, standardization, metrology, conformity assessment, energy efficiency, on implementation of surveillance in construction and compliance of projects and estimates with regulations and standards, as well as supervision of rational use of fuel, electric and heat energy.
The main objectives of Gosstandart are:
• Carrying out common governmental policy in technical regulations, standardization, metrology, conformity assessment, efficient use of fuel and energetic resources, realization of regulation and management in this sphere;
• Identification and implementation of the priority-driven directions of development in the Republic of the mentioned lines;
• Protection of interests of the state and customers, increase of safety, quality, competitiveness of products (services), rational use of fuel and energetic resources, elimination of technical barriers to trade on the base of efficient use of technical regulations, standardization, metrology, conformity assessment, surveillance in construction and inspection of compliance of projects and estimates with regulations and standards, governmental supervision of observance of the technical normative legal acts (ТNLА) requirements;
• Ensuring effective functioning and development of the System of technical regulation and standardization, Accreditation system of the Republic of Belarus, System of measurements unity assurance, National System of Conformity Attestation;
• Technical regulation, standardization and conformity attestation of energy-consuming products, works, services, inspection of conformity of the declared technical and economic indices of energy-consuming and energy-generating equipment to TNLAs, norms and requirements in the sphere of efficient use of fuel-energetic resources, and actual technical and economic indices – to ratings of the power equipment;
• Surveillance in construction and inspection of compliance of projects and estimates with the norms and standards;
• Inspection of rationing of consumption of fuel, heat and electric power resources, carrying out governmental expertise of energy efficiency of the design decisions of construction new and expansion (reconstruction, modernization) of existing objects;
• Implementation of governmental surveillance of technical regulations and standards observance, measuring tools, rational use of electric and heat power, fuel, development of fuel and energy balance of the Republic, realization by customers and producers of fuel and energy resources, measures for saving of these resources and observation of norms of consumption of fuel, electric and heat energy;
• Organization and coordination of works for international cooperation of the Republic of Belarus in technical regulation, standardization, metrology, conformity assessment, efficient use of fuel and energy resources.
