Describes the country's standards landscape, identifies the national standards and accreditation bodies, and lists the main national testing organization(s) and conformity assessment bodies.

Overview

The process of developing, certifying, and enforcing standards is undergoing reform in North Macedonia, and the Government’s standards bodies have adopted the Code of Good Practice for the preparation, adoption and application of standards.     

Standards

In accordance with WTO/TBT Agreement (Agreement to Technical Barriers to Trade), standards are regulated and developed by the following institutions:
Regulatory functions:
Ministry of Economy, acting as a coordinator;
Other Ministries for specific topic areas.
Controlling functions:
Customs Administration;
State Market Inspectorate (Consumer Product Safety Authority).                                                                                                                                                                                     

Testing, inspection and certification

Standardization Institute of the Republic of North Macedonia
Bureau of Metrology
Institute for Accreditation of the Republic of North Macedonia
Laboratories, certification and controlling offices.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Publication of technical regulations

Each of the standardization and accreditation organizations issues bulletins on its procedures.  Also, sector-regulating laws are published in the Official Gazette as adopted or amended.
 

Contact information

U.S. Embassy – Skopje
Mr. Arben Gega, Commercial Specialist
Samoilova 21
1000 Skopje, North Macedonia
Tel: 389-2-310-2403
E-mail: gegaa@state.gov

Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are required under the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT Agreement) to notify to the WTO proposed technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures that could affect trade.  Notify U.S. (www.nist.gov/notifyus) is a free, web-based e-mail registration service that captures and makes available for review and comment key information on draft regulations and conformity assessment procedures. Users receive customized e-mail alerts when new notifications are added by selected country or countries and industry sector(s) of interest and can also request full texts of regulations. This service and its associated web site are managed and operated by the USA WTO TBT Inquiry Point housed within the National Institute of Standards and Technology, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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