Belarus

Type C

Type F

Regulatory agency 

• Eurasian Economic Commission

Regulations

• Technical regulations of the Customs Union "On safety of low-voltage equipment" (TP TC 004/2011) came into force on 15 February 2013.
• EA Customs Union (EAC) Approval is a singular harmonised Approval Certificate for EMC and/or Safety for certain products. It covers all member states in the union.
• The product must be marked with the EAC Mark.
• There are 2 methods of conformity assessment for electrical products: Certification (CoC) and declaration (DoC). The validity is up to 5 years.

Guidelines

• A local representative is required for DoC.
• Conformity Assessment includes:

• Submission of application, test reports and essential documentation.
• Factory inspection report.
• Quality Management System certification (where applicable).
• The EAC mark should be shown on the product label.

Applicable product categories

• Products with nominal voltage of 50 to 1000 AC and 75 to 1500 DC require CU approval.
• Products applicable to TR 004/2011

• Automatic breakers, protective cutout device
• Cables, wires and cords
• Devices for electric energy distribution
• Electric tools (hand-tools and portable tools)
• Electrical apparatus and household equipment
• Electric musical instruments
• Electrical apparatus for electrotechnical sets control
• Low-voltage equipment connected to electronics data processing machines
• Personal computers

• Products applicable to TR 020/2011

• Electric household appliances and devices
• Electric musical instruments
• Electric tools (hand-tools and portable tools
• Personal electronic computing machines (personal computers)
• Technical products to be connected to personal electronic computing machines

To determine if a particular product is subject to the above regulations, please contact us.

Regulatory agency

• Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Belarus

Regulations

• Energy Efficiency requirements are mandatory in Belarus depending on the product categories. This is regulated by the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of Republic of Belarus No.: 849 dated 21 October 2016.
• Conformity approval (Belarus Certificate/Declaration) in accordance with Belarus Energy Efficiency requirements which is issued by an accredited Belarus Certification Body is compulsory.

Guidelines

• A registration certificate will be issued upon submission of a satisfactory registration dossier.

Applicable product categories

Energy Efficiency Certification:
From 1 January 2019:

• TV set, TV monitors
• Microwaves

• Air conditioners with power rate up to 12 kW
• Cooling household devices
• Dishwashers
• Drying machines
• Electrical ovens
• Household and office equipment
• Non-directional household lamps, fluorescent lamps without integrated ballast, high intensity discharge lamps
• Washing machines

From 1 September 2017:

• External power sources

Energy Efficiency Declaration:
From 1 September 2017:

• Single-speed asynchronous (induction) three-phase electric motors.

Regulatory agency

• The Ministry of Communications and Informatisation of the Republic of Belarus

Regulations

• Belarus enforced updated Radio/Telecom requirements from 1 January 2019 with new Radio/Telecom Technical Regulation TR 2018/024/BY "Technical Regulation of the Republic of Belarus: Telecommunication Facilities: Safety. TR 2018/024/BY"
• Conformity approval (Belarus Certificate/Declaration) in accordance with Belarus Telecom requirements which is issued by an accredited Belarus Certification Body is compulsory.

Guidelines

• The certification process includes submission of an application, product testing in an accredited test laboratory in Belarus, submission of test report and essential documents. Upon successful approval by the authority, a certification will be issued.
• Factory inspection must be held by the Belarus Notified Certification Body (NCB) experts for the purpose of Belarus Certificate.

Applicable product categories

List of products which need certification:

• Telecommunication devices functioning as data transmitting systems
• Telecommunication devices functioning as digital transport systems
• Telecommunication devices functioning as switching and service management systems
• Telecommunication devices functioning as digital TV-radio signals generator, encoder, decoder, multiplexer, converter, transmitter and receiver

List of products which need the Declaration of Conformity:

• Broadband wireless access equipment, including radio modules incorporated in other equipment
• Communications electronics
• Document electric communication terminals (DECT), including those incorporated in any other equipment, fax machines, fax boards
• End-user terminals for mobile cell systems including radio modules incorporated in other equipment
• Radio equipment of DECT standard, including radio modules incorporated in other devices
• Signal converters for data transfer via switched channels and unswitched signalling channels, including those incorporated in any other equipment, modems, fax-modems
• Subscription stations
• Telecommunication devices functioning as digital transport systems
• Telecommunication devices functioning as switching and service management systems
• Telecommunication devices used for subscriber access networking
• Telephone receivers of all types, coin telephones and other appliances, which can be connected to subscriber loops, and functioning via dialling number and transmitting and receiving voice messages

To determine if a particular product is subject to the above regulations, please contact us.