Doing business in St. Petersburg

Application scope: Consumer & Industrial
Supervising authority: Gospozhnadzor
When needed: GOST R certification

• What is Fire Safety Certificate?
• Application scope
• Fire Safety Certification Schemes
• Procedure
• Design and content of the certificate

What is Fire Safety Certificate

Fire Safety Certificate assures that particular materials or structures conform to the fire safety standards. It may be a pre-requisite to GOST R Certificate of Conformity.

Fire safety is regulated in Russia by the Federal Law “On Fire Safety” ¹ 69-FZ.

Coordination of standardization, metrology and certification activities with regard to fire safety is in the hands of the State Fire Supervision Department (or Gospozhnadzor).

Application scope

Mandatory fire safety certification is required for the following:

• Fire detection, protection and extinguishing equipment and systems
• Flammable building materials and structures - wall-paper, floor tiles, carpets, cable ducts, doors, etc.
• Electrical products - cables, fridges, Christmas-tree lightning, etc
• Heat producing products - gas ovens, chargrills, heat-generators, etc

Fire Safety Certification Schemes

• Single Shipment Certificates – or The Consignment Fire Safety Certificate is a trade document valid for one consignment only (i.e. for a certain quantity and type of product). A proof (contract or invoice) of customer/importer in Russia is needed to be issued a certificate.
• Certificate for Serial Production – or Serial Production Fire Safety Certificate is a trade document valid from 12 months to 3 years depending on the nature of the products.

Procedure

Fire Safety Certificates are issued by Certification Bodies accredited by Gospozhnadzor to act on its behalf.

Technical evaluation of the goods is done to ensure their compliance to Russian fire safety regulations.

The evaluation procedure may include evaluation of the following:

• technical documentation
• surveillance visits
• sampling, analysis, type testing (with regard to fire resistance and toxic emissions in fire situation)
• factory audits

The certified product should be properly marked by Fire Safety sign.

Design and content of the certificate

View a sample Fire Safety Certificate.