REGULATORY TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF BUILDING PRODUCTS

Abstract

The paper is a continuation of previous scientific work carried out at the State Enterprise "State Research Institute of Building Constructions" (hereinafter referred to as NIISK), in recent years, in the direction of integrating the national regulatory framework into the international legal framework for technical regulation in construction.

Analytical studies have been carried out on the further practical application by manufacturers of construction products of existing regulatory technical specifications for appropriate categories of construction products.

It is shown that the basic requirements for structures and the EU relevant legislation, including the appropriate mandates issued by the European Commission, are a basis for the development of regulatory technical specifications that establish the performance characteristics and threshold levels of indicators of construction products, according to which the manufacturer draws up a declaration of conformity when construction products are placed on the market.

 Regulatory technical specifications have been listed, including a list of national standards for the purposes of the Law of Ukraine "On the marketing of construction products" [1], identical to the corresponding harmonized European standards, and a list of European Assessment Documents, entered into the Unified State Electronic System of the construction industry and were made public on the web platform.

The results of analytical studies on the developed 32 draft national mandates that establish performance characteristics, levels and classes, systems for assessing and verifying the stability of indicators of performance characteristics of construction products of a certain category, as well as a list of regulatory technical specifications are presented.

Analytical studies have been carried out and the compliance of a certain category of construction products with the relevant mandates issued by the European Commission has been established. This provides the opportunity for a manufacturer to search for harmonized European standards for certain categories of construction products, and it has also been established that a manufacturer can search for and subsequently use European documents to determine acceptability for certain categories of construction products through the existing electronic search engine of the European Organization for Technical Assessment.