Article 3. Basic concepts

The following basic concepts shall be applied in the present Law:

Technical regulation — Establishment, application, and enforcement of mandatory requirements for the safety of products, works, and services;

Safety of products, works, and services — condition of products; processes of their design, production, operation (use), installation, adjustment, storage, transportation, sale and disposal; works performed; and services provided, in which no unacceptable risk associated with the probability of harm to human life, health, the environment, the property of legal, physical persons and the state is present;

Normative documents in the field of technical regulation — technical regulations, normative documents on standardization, sanitary, veterinary, veterinary-sanitary, and phytosanitary rules and regulations, urban planning, environmental standards and rules, and other documents in the field of technical regulation;

Technical Regulation — normative document in the field of technical regulation, establishing mandatory requirements for the safety of products and services;

General Technical Regulation — normative document in the field of technical regulation, establishing mandatory safety requirements for a group of homogeneous products and services;

Special Technical Regulation — normative document in the field of technical regulation, establishing mandatory safety requirements for a particular type of products and services not provided for in General Technical Regulation;

Technical barriers to trade — obstacles to trade arising from differences or changes in mandatory safety requirements for products and services contained in normative documents in the field of technical regulation.