Article 17. Content of Technical Regulations

The Technical Regulations shall contain the following:

Characteristics of safety of products and services;

Full list of products and services in respect of which safety requirements are being established;

Requirements to terminology, packaging, marking, or labels, and rules of their application and identification of products;

Procedure for exercising state control;

Rules necessary to assess the conformity of products and services to the requirements of normative documents in the field of technical regulation.

Technical Regulations shall also contain sanitary, veterinary, veterinary-sanitary, and phytosanitary measures, taking into account the degree of risk of causing harm to human life and health and the environment, and prevention of damage arising in connection with penetration or spread of harmful microorganisms and additives, diseases, vectors of diseases, contaminants, toxins, pests, and weed plants.

Sanitary, veterinary, veterinary-sanitary, and phytosanitary rules and norms shall establish the following:

Mandatory requirements for products, the procedure of testing, inspection, the procedure for issuing sanitary-epidemiological, veterinary, and phytosanitary conclusions;

Quarantine-related and veterinary-sanitary rules, including requirements related to the transportation of animals and plants;

Sampling methods and procedures, methods of research and risk assessment of causing harm to human life and health, the environment, as well as other requirements contained in the Technical Regulations.

Technical Regulations shall not contain requirements for product design and execution, except for cases, when due to absence of requirements for its design and execution taking into account the degree of risk of causing harm to human life and health, the product safety is not ensured.

Technical Regulations shall not contain requirements for products and services causing harm to human life and health, property of legal entities, individuals, and the state as a result of long-term use of such products and services and (or) due to the impact of other factors not allowing to determine the degree of acceptable risk. Hereby, the Technical Regulations may contain requirements, concerning informing consumers about possible harm and about factors, on which the risk of causing harm to human life and health and environment depends.