The event provided detailed information on the substance of the new technical regulations, their role in ensuring consumer safety and the advantages that their application will create for market participants, and participants’ comments and proposals were heard.
Jointly organised by the Antimonopoly and Consumer Market Control Agency under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (the Agency) and the Small and Medium Business Development Agency (SMBDA), a public hearing and discussion was held at the Baku SME House on the following draft technical regulations prepared by the relevant state bodies:
- Safety of Paint and Varnish Materials and Solvents
- Safety of Packaging
- Safety of Agricultural and Forestry Tractors and Their Trailers
- Safety of Automobile Roads
- Safety of Railway Rolling Stock
- Safety of Railway Transport Infrastructure
- Safety of Construction Materials, Products and Structures
- Safety of Lifts
- Safety of Amusement Rides
Rauf Taghiyev, Deputy Head of the SME Friend Department at SMBDA, and Elmaddin Guliyev, Head of the Standardisation, Technical Regulation and Certification Department of the Agency, delivered speeches at the event.
In the speeches, the advantages of the draft technical regulations for ensuring the circulation of safe and high-quality products on the domestic market, protecting consumer interests and strengthening a competitiveness-enhancing environment for business entities were discussed. Entrepreneurs were also called on to participate actively in public hearings and discussions and to submit their proposals.
During the event, presentations on the areas covered by the draft technical regulations, key safety requirements, their application in the conformity assessment process and their role in raising quality standards were given by Elbrus Aliyev, Vidadi Badalov and Ayhan Bughdayev, representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Azerbaijan; Farida Alakbarova, representative of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Azerbaijan; Israfil Mammadov, representative of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Azerbaijan; Ilham Huseynov, representative of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC; and Saleh Azizov, representative of the Azerbaijan Automobile Roads Agency.
The question-and-answer session held at the end of the meeting continued with active discussions, and participants’ comments and proposals were heard.
Note: As part of the implementation of the State Programme for 2023–2025 on Aligning the National Standardisation System with International Requirements, approved by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 43 draft national technical regulations have been prepared by the relevant state bodies, and the drafts have been published on the Agency’s official website (https://competition.gov.az/az/page/qanunvericilik/texniki-reqlament-layihelerinin-ictimai-dinlenmesi-ve-muzakiresi) for public hearing and discussion in order to obtain comments and proposals from interested parties.
