Compared to last year in Kazakhstan, the number of unsafe and low-quality toys increased by 16.2%.
“This year, it has been established that 53.2% do not meet the requirements of technical regulations, of which violations of physico-chemical and toxicological indicators were established in 1.4% of cases, the remaining 98.6% are due to violation of labeling rules,” said During the press conference in the CCS, the chairman of the Public Health Committee of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the chief state sanitary doctor, Gendarbek Bekshin.
In 2018, according to the speaker, the main segment of the discrepancy was third countries (China, Turkey, Ukraine) - 89%, then producers of the EEU member states (Russia, Belarus) - 10% and domestic producers - 1%.
"In order to protect the life and health of children, in connection with the establishment of systematic violations by participants of foreign economic activity requirements, prohibitions and restrictions on conditionally released goods, at the initiative of the Ministry, the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 21, 2018 No. 441" On Approving the List of Goods for which conditional release is not allowed. " This Decree regulates the ban on the importation of children's toys without presenting certificates of conformity and will allow to limit the importation of potentially dangerous children's toys, ”said J. Bekshin.
According to the chief sanitary doctor, the Committee made an amendment to the Customs Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan on setting deadlines for conditionally released goods, which will allow to monitor the Trader on the submission of conformity assessment documents to the customs authorities on time (60 calendar days).
“In general, it should be noted that since the beginning of the Committee’s implementation of the chamber control from March 2015, the volume of imported products (goods) in the conditional release mode amounted to 47 percent of the total imported products to the country and today this volume has decreased to 8%” said the speaker.
However, as Gendarbek Bekshin noted, along with the reduction in the release of goods in the conditional mode, a new problem appeared, these are “gray certificates” (fake, certificates issued on paper, without laboratory research), which are identified when monitoring product safety.
“Today, work in this direction has been started jointly with KTRM MID and its colleagues in the EAEU, in particular with the certification bodies of the Russian Federation. In order to fully cover the territories with cameral control over imported products, next year it is planned to introduce an information system in all territorial divisions, ”the speaker summed up.
