TR 7 technical regulations come into force later this year

The Customs Union made 24 new technical regulations, 7 of them will come into force in 2012.

15 projects of technical regulations are in the process of internal coordination and seven completed a public discussion. “The work being done on the development of technical regulations – it is a progressive way. We go out on [...]

Central currency for Customs Union?

Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Guryanov said that “the introduction of the single currency in the Customs Union is possible provided a deeper integration of its member countries.”

According to the deputy minister, is a question of medium-or long-term perspective, when the country’s vehicle will move to a deeper level of integration. In this case [...]

Moldova wants to join the Customs Union

In November, Moldova could be held the referendum on accession of Moldova to the Customs Union. With this initiative was the Social Democratic Party of the Republic.

Prior to that, the idea of ​​joining the Customs Union of Moldova was supported by the party “Patriots of Moldova”, after the accession encouraged other community organizations and [...]

Kazakhstan intends to join the Customs Union.

Kazakhstan intends to join the Customs Union. The Eurasian Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) has recently started to consider the application of Kazakhstan to join the Customs Union. For information about this published 29th of February by Russian Internet media, referring to the Minister of Trade of the Eurasian Economic Commission for Andrei Slepnev. “It [...]

Chrismas and New year wishes

Sercons Europe wishes everybody a good christmas and all the best Wishes for the New Year!

Workshop @ Fenedex (Douane en Logistieke zaken in Rusland)

On 15 december 2011 at the Regards hotel near Rotterdam Airport a workshop Customs and Logistics in Russia (Douane en Logistieke zaken in Rusland) will be held. Our Certification expert Paul de Nijs will be ready to present and share his knowledge and experience about the certification process.

If you want to hear about his [...]

New Import Tariffs Russia, Kazakhstan and Belorussia

Russia, Kazakhstan and Belorussia decided to change the Import Tariffs to an uniform system because of the Customs Union between the three countries.

More information from website http://www.globaltrade.net:

“Russia continues to maintain a number of barriers with respect to imports, including tariffs and tariff-rate quotas, discriminatory and prohibitive charges and fees, and discriminatory licensing, [...]

Sercons Europe opened their own YouTube channel!

Dear Clients and visitors,

The first movie we uploaded is about Sercons Europe and shows our activities. In the near future we want to upload video’s that tell about certification. Please stay tuned!

Movie about Sercons Europe

Customs Union Certificate of Conformity

There is a new movement going on in Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus. These countries are now working towards a Customs Union. This started with the Eurasec (Eurasian Economic Community). Eurasec was formed by five of the CIS countries. In July 2010 Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus decided to form a Customs Union (CU). They wanted to [...]

New accreditation of SERCONS

SERCONS was accredited by Rosstandart for the right to approve conformity to technical regulation “on security devices, operating on gaseous fuels”.

The standart was adopted by the Goverment of the Russian Federation 11.02.2010, and started functioning at the beginning of this year.

Such devices must go through the procedure of identification in the accredited [...]