Standardization Day of Belarus

Emblem of the Belarusian State Institute of Standardization and CertificationOctober 14 is World Standardization Day. It was on this day in 1946 at the conference of national standards organizations from 25 countries was established the International Organization for Standardization - ISO (from the Greek word isos - equal).

In our republic, the World Day of Standardization is celebrated annually since 1992 - the year of the formation of the State Standard. According to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus of March 26, 1998, October 14 is defined as a professional holiday - "Day of Standardization".

The system of standardization created in the republic is based on the legal basis established by the Law of the Republic of Belarus “On Standardization”. Requirements of state standards ensuring: safety of products, works and services for life, health and property of citizens, environmental protection, compatibility and interchangeability of products, product labeling, unity of control methods are defined by law as mandatory for compliance. Other requirements of state standards concerning consumer characteristics of products, its performance properties, warranty periods are defined as voluntary.

More than 20 thousand existing state standards set requirements for the quality and safety of products at all stages of its life cycle. Over the past years, the level of harmonization of domestic standards with international standards has increased to 30%. The National Standards Fund, created over the years in the country, in terms of information, automation, nomenclature of submitted documents, service capabilities is not inferior to similar information centers of standards of industrialized countries.

Today, mandatory requirements of standards are practically used as a measure of state regulation of requirements for products and services and compensate for the lack of technical legislative acts in the country.

Although World Standardization Day is celebrated in different ways, it has a common purpose. On this day, conferences, exhibitions, seminars, radio and television interviews and other events are held around the world.