YEREVAN, DECEMBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. In 2006, 14 production certification bodies, 5 service certification bodies and one quality management system certification body were accredited in Armenia. Robert Dayan, Head of the Standardization, Metrology and Conformity Certification Department of the RA Ministry of Trade and Economic Development, stated this at the December 20 press conference. At the present time 22 certification bodies and 67 experimental laboratories function in Armenia. In the words of R. Dayan, in 2006, 22 bids for production certification were rejected by certification bodies, including 13 bids due to non-conformity to requirements of technical regulations. It was noted that in 2006, work on modernization of the experimental basis and purchase of modern laboratory equipment was done in Armenia. Particularly, a modern movable laboratory for oil products testing was purchased with state budget resources, which allowed to control the correspondence of car gasoline safety indices to the technical regulations' requirements. According to R. Dayan, the work on re-equipment of laboratories of the National Institute of Standards and the National Institute of Metrology with credit resources of the World bank is in the phase of completion.

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