Since February 2026, Rosaccreditation has had a tool that it did not have before: the ability to suspend the validity of EAEU declarations and certificates in Russia if the Federal Customs Service does not confirm the actual import of samples or product samples for testing. This is exactly the mechanism that worked in the case of the Armenian authorities.
Five documents — four certificates for light industry products and a declaration for food products — were issued by the certified bodies of ARMTEST LLC and ARM-TEST LLC with the registration numbers of the accreditation certificate 026/S-043 and 025/S-057, respectively. The reasons for the suspension are very specific: the lack of evidence that the product samples were physically imported for testing, and the failure to provide the test reports themselves upon request.
The wording explaining the context of the decision is indicative: Rosaccreditation supported its colleagues from the National Accreditation Body of Armenia by its actions, since the accreditation of ARMTEST LLC had already been terminated on the territory of the republic itself. In other words, the Russian decision is synchronized with the one that has already taken place in Moscow — Rosaccreditation closed the loophole through which the documents of the body that had already been disqualified at home continued to operate in Russia.
The number of eleven in less than six months is not an isolated incident, but a steady trend. Information about all bodies that have committed violations is sent to the Eurasian Economic Commission and to the national accreditation body of the relevant EAEU country — that is, the system works as a two-way exchange of signals about unscrupulous certifiers within the entire union, and not as an isolated solution of one country.
For importers working with certification through the authorities of Armenia, Kazakhstan, Belarus or Kyrgyzstan: the practice of suspension has become a systemic part of the regulatory landscape, not an exception. Checking the current status of a specific certification body in the Rosaccreditation open register before each new shipment is a minimum precaution that takes several minutes, but protects against a situation when a shipment of goods ends up at the border with a document that is invalid at the time of import.
