Belarus To Ban Imported Tights?

The State Standardization Committee found violations of the technical regulations in almost all imported stockings and socks.

The State Committee on Standardization found non-compliance with the technical regulations of the Customs Union in almost all imported hosiery products tested in October-November 2016.

In October and November 2016, the State Committee for Standardization of Belarus, in the process of 39 control-supervisory measures on compliance with the requirements of the technical regulations of the Customs Union "On safety of products intended for children and adolescents" and "On safety of the light industry products " in the realization of the light industry products, tested 177 items of imported hosiery, ej.by reports with a reference to the Ministry for Anti-Monopoly Regulation and Trade website.

Violations of the requirements of technical regulations were revealed in the course of 38 supervisory activities with regard to 172 items (97,2%).

With regard to 124 items, they recorded violations in labeling (the information for consumers was either entirely missing or presented in a foreign language, or not in full scope: there was no information on the name and type (purpose) of the product, the country of origin, the name and address of the manufacturer (the person authorized by the manufacturer), importer, date of manufacture, size, etc.).

With regard to 93 items, there were no documents on conformity assessment (or, given the absence of the required labeling, there was no opportunity to properly identify the products with the provided documents on conformity assessment).

In addition, 20 items of children's, women's, men's socks under tests were selected and tested by an accredited testing laboratory for compliance with the technical regulations on the composition of the raw material declared by the manufacturer on the labeling. As a result of the tests 19 items of 20 did not correspond with the type and mass fraction of the raw material claimed in the label (deviation of the actual percentage of raw materials exceeded 5%).

According to the results of the state supervision conducted by the Regional Inspectorates of the State Standardization Committee in October and November 2016, selling of 95 batches of non-standard products for the total sum of over Bn 3676 was prohibited. Herein, 14 protocols on administrative violations were forwarded to the court for taking measures.