Azerbaijan, Nakhchivan / Trend corr. E.Mammadov / The operations of fifty-three enterprises were suspended in order to remove violations discovered in Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (NAR) between January and August this year, Malik Rzayev, the Director General of the State Agency on Standardization, Metrology and Patents, said on 30 August.
The quality of products did not meet shelf life and transferring standards. Officials of the Agency seized expired products worth AZN 4.58mln. Expired products of forty-one varieties were destroyed.
The area of NAR is 5,500km2, which constitutes 6.4% of the Azerbaijan's territory. Nakhchivan consists of Babek, Sharur, Ordubad, Sadarak, Shahbuz, Julfa, and Kangarli regions. Nakhchivan city is the capital of Nakhchivan AR with a population of 380,200.