EAC Fashion Certification in 2019 | TR CU 017/2011
There are Declaration and Certificate of conformity with TR CU 017/2011 “On safety of light industry products”. Certificate is required for clothes of 1st layer - products in direct contact with the skin: tops, socks, lingerie, swimwear; Declaration is required for clothes of 2nd layer and 3rd layer - products having limited contact with the skin: pants, pullover, cardigans, coats, jackets and similar clothes.
In order to issue EAC declarations & certificates it is mandatory to provide 3 samples for each product composition. This is due to the customs declaration should contain that 3 samples crossed the border for tests in Russian laboratory. When applying for declaration and certificate this customs declaration should be presented together with application for declaration and certificate.
For Certificate for serial production site audit is required: Expert from a Russian laboratory comes to the production site and conducts production site analysis.
Lead time depends on many factors, such as date of site audit (in case of certificate), samples delivery and their customs clearance and alignment of drafts.
For declarations: after samples delivered to the laboratory (note that in case of customs clearance it also requires time to release goods) 2 weeks to issue declarations.
For certificates: after site audit is conducted, samples are delivered to the laboratory, 2-3 weeks to issue certificates.
We suggest quoting and starting certification process in advance prior to shipments considering time for samples delivery, material tests, site audit etc.
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