On November 3, the fifth meeting of the Council of Heads of Accreditation Bodies of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) Member States was held via videoconferencing. The meeting was attended by Member of the Board (Minister) for Technical Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Viktor Nazarenko, Director of the Belarusian State Accreditation Center Tatyana Nikolaeva, Head of the national accreditation authority of the Republic of Armenia Ani Obosyan, Deputy Director General of the National Center of Accreditation of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kainar Taizhanov, Director of the Kyrgyz Center for Accreditation Zhanybek Chapaev, representatives of the Department of Technical Regulation and Accreditation of the EEC, national accreditation bodies of the states - members of the Council of Heads, the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia. RusAccreditation was represented by Deputy Head of the Service Dmitry Gogolev.
Participants of the meeting paid special attention to issues related to peer assessments as a tool to achieve equivalence of accreditation procedures in the EAEU. As a result of consideration, it was decided to finalize the draft recommendation of the EEC Board "On the procedure for the implementation of peer assessments by the accreditation bodies of the EAEU member states."
For a detailed study of the activities of the Council of Heads, it was proposed to create working groups under it in various areas of activity of national accreditation bodies (peer assessments, implementation of the Decision of the EEC Council of December 5, 2018 No. 100, interaction of accreditation bodies with state control (supervision) bodies, digitalization of public services in the field of conformity assessment).
The Council of Heads of Accreditation Bodies of the EAEU Member States was established by Decision of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council No. 5 dated May 14, 2018 as a subsidiary body of the EAEU in order to develop accreditation in the field of technical regulation as part of the implementation of the Treaty on the EAEU. In 2020, the Republic of Belarus chairs this subsidiary body of the EEC.