Bulgarian Technical Legislation and Standardisation Activities

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Activities

• Violina Panayotova
• Iliyana Atanasova
• BULGARIA
• June, 2004

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Policy

• Bulgaria's trade policy
• European Association Agreement
• WTO membership
• CEFTA membership
• Free Trade Agreements.

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Policy

• Bulgaria's trade relations with other participant
  countries (1)
• With Albania Bulgaria applies the bilateral
  Free Trade Agreement
• With Croatia - Bulgaria applies the arrangements
  under the CEFTA in line with the Agreement for
  Accession of Croatia to CEFTA
• With Bosnia and Herzegovina the bilateral Free
  Trade Agreement has been signed on 16.10.2003

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Policy

• Bulgaria trade relations with other participant
  countries (2)
• With Macedonia Bulgaria applies the bilateral
  Free Trade Agreement
• With Moldova the negotiations on the Free Trade
  Agreement were finalized in January 2004
• With Romania Bulgaria applies the arrangements
  under the CEFTA in line with the Agreement for
  accession of Bulgaria to CEFTA
• With Serbia and Montenegro from 1 June 2004
  Bulgaria will apply the bilateral Free Trade
  Agreement

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Policy

• Bulgaria has signed Regional Bilateral Agreements
  (1)
• With Croatia - Agreement between SASM of the
  Republic of Bulgaria and the State Office of
  Standardisation and Metrology of Republic of
  Croatia for cooperation in the field of
  standardisation, metrology, certification, and
  accreditation - in force since 11.07.2000
• With Moldova - Agreement between the Government
  of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Government of
  the Republic of Moldova for cooperation in the
  field of standardisation, metrology, and
  certification - in force since 26.07.2000

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Policy

• Bulgaria has signed Regional Bilateral Agreements
  (2)
• With Macedonia - Agreement between the
  Government of the Republic of Bulgaria and the
  Government of the Republic of Macedonia for
  cooperation in the field of standardisation,
  metrology, accreditation and conformity
  assessment - in force since 08.03.2002
• With Serbia and Montenegro - Agreement between
  the SASM of the Republic of Bulgaria and the
  Federal Institution for Standardisation of the
  Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on cooperation in
  the field of standardisation and certification -
  in force since 08.10.2002 and Agreement on
  cooperation in the field of metrology between
  SAMTS of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Bureau
  of Measures and Precious Metals of Serbia and
  Montenegro - signed on 17.10.2003

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Policy

• Challenges
• Different requirements of national legislation
  (including standards)
• Lack of direct recognition of conformity
  assessment results and certificates
• Financial resources for development of
  cooperation activities
• Necessity of increasing of cooperation efficiency
  (joint use of facilities etc.)

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Policy

• Main Priority in Regulatory Area
• European Integration

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Policy

• FREE MOVEMENT OF GOODS
• over 90 of EU technical legislation already
  transposed into Bulgarian legislation
• Old approach
• New approach
• National legislation in compliance with
• Art. 28-30 of TEC

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Policy

• Framework Laws
• Law on Foodstuffs
• Law on Protection against Harmful Impact of
  Chemical Substances and Preparations
• Law on Control of Narcotic Substances and
  Precursors
• Law on Measurements

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Policy

• Framework Laws
• Road Traffic Law
• Law on Technical Requirements to Products
• Law on National Standardisation
• Law on Drugs and Pharmacies in Human Medicine.

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Policy

• Old Approach Directives (some examples)

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Policy

• New Approach Directives
• 17 new approach directives adopted as Ordinances
• 15 of them entered into force
• 6 Ordinances are drafted

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EU Technical Legislation

• Reference to International Standards in EU
  Directives and Regulations
• UN/ECE Regulations
• ISO standards
• OECD codes
• CEN/CENELEC standards
• Table WHO TEFs for human risk assessment

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Policy

• Number of Bulgarian standards
• (voluntary status)

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Policy

• Regulatory problems
• Involvement of stakeholders
• Awareness campaign
• Training
• of regulators
• of economic operators
• of enforcement bodies
• Establishment of network of national contact
  points

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Policy

• Standardisation problems
• Adoption of International and European Standards
  by translation of the identical text
• Translation of International Technical Documents
  UN/ECE Regulation, Codes, Guides, Manuals.

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Bulgarian Technical Legislation and
Standardisation Policy

• Thank you !
• Web sites
• Ministry of Economy
• www.mi.government.bg
• State Agency for Metrology and Technical
  Surveillance
• http//www.sasm.government.bg/