Documents Required for PPE Certification

Declaration of conformity of personal protective equipment is conducted by accepting a declaration of conformity on the basis of evidence from the applying organization of the third party, an accredited testing laboratory (center) included in the Unified Register of Certification Bodies and Test Laboratories (Centers) of the Eurasian Customs Union, in accordance with standard procedures approved in the prescribed manner.

The standard declaring procedures approved by the Commission of the EACU shall be applied to the following types of products:

• for mass manufactured simple PPE for declaring compliance without participation of the third party, the 1D procedure is applied;
• for batches and individual samples of the simple PPE for declaring compliance without participation of the third party, the 2D procedure is applied;
• for mass manufactured simple PPE for declaring compliance with participation of the third party, the 3D procedure is applied;
• for batches and individual samples of the simple PPE for declaring compliance with participation of the third party, the 4D procedure is applied;

When declaring compliance, the applicant independently forms evidentiary materials, which shall contain as follows:

1) copies of the applicant’s registration documents, including: 

• full and abbreviated brand (if available) name of the legal entity, its organizational and legal form;
• postal address of the organization;
• information on state registration;
• tax payer's identification number;
• information about the document confirming the organization’s registration with the tax authority (date, number, issuing body);

2) name, technical conditions, description of the personal protective equipment, operational documents;

3) a list of interstate, national (state) standards of the EACU members, applied in full or in part, 

4) testing and measurement reports for compliance with samples of the personal protective equipment obtained with the participation of an accredited testing laboratory (center), if they are required in accordance with the declaring procedure.

 The manufacturer (the person authorized by the manufacturer) provides conditions for the production control (for 1D and 3D procedures). In order to monitor the compliance of the personal protective equipment, the applicant conducts tests on samples of the personal protective equipment in the testing laboratory (center) (for the 3D and 4D procedures).

The applicant may also use the following additional evidentiary materials:

1) testing reports of samples of the personal protective equipment for compliance with the requirements of national, interstate and international standards, standards of organizations, technical conditions;

2) certificate (s) of the voluntary certification for compliance with the requirements of national, international and interstate standards, standards of organizations, sets of rules and systems of voluntary certification (including product quality), as well as the terms of contracts.

The EACU Declaration of Conformity is uniformed and approved by the Decision of the Commission of the EA Customs Union. The declaration of conformity is subject to registration in accordance with the procedure established by the Commission of the EA Customs Union.

The validity of the EACU declaration for the mass-produced personal protective equipment is 5 years; for batches and single samples of the personal protective equipment – until the sale (or expiration date) of the declared sample or the last product from the declared batch, but not more than 1 year.

Mandatory certification of the personal protective equipment is carried out in accordance with the Typical Certification Procedures, approved by the Decision of the Commission of the EA Customs Union:

• for the mass-produced PPE, the quality of which depends on safety performance, the 1C procedure is applied;
• for batches of the PPE, the 3C procedure is applied;
• for the individual PPE products (samples), the 4C procedure is applied;
• when putting into production (mass production) of the PPE, the 5C procedure is applied;
• when putting into production (mass production) of the PPE, the manufacturer of which claims certification of the management system, the 6C procedure is applied.