BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 18. The Azerbaijan Institute of Standardization (AZSTAND) has adopted 139 new state standards in 2023. Head of the State Service for Anti-monopoly Control and Consumer Market Supervision under the Ministry of Economy of Azerbaijan Mammad Abbasbayli said during the press conference dedicated to the results of activities, Trend reports.
According to the Head of State Service, it means more than double growth compared to the figure registered in 2022.
"During the reporting period, the Azerbaijan Accreditation Center accredited 85 institutions, conducting conformity assessments. The Azerbaijan Institute of Metrology recognized the type conformity of more than a thousand measuring instruments imported to the country, and information about them was entered in the state register. The State Service granted 72,554 certificates of origin to business entities, which is 18.7 percent more than in the corresponding period of 2022," Abbasbayli said.
To note, the Azerbaijan Institute of Standardization was established as a national standardization body by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan No. 1234 dated February 10, 2017. The main activities of the Institute are the development, adoption, and abolition of national standards; management of the State Standards Fund; maintenance and registration of normative documents on technical regulation and standardization; coordination of technical committees on standardization; and conformity assessment activities (certification and laboratory tests).
“During the reporting period, the Azerbaijan Accreditation Center accredited 85 institutions that conducted conformity assessments. The Azerbaijan Institute of Metrology has recognized the type conformity of more than 1,000 imported measuring instruments, and information about them was included in the state register," the official noted.
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