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Z.Y.Aslanov, S.M.Abdullayeva: The adaptation of the local private sector to the
international standards’ requirements

THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES: THEORY AND PRACTICE, V.72, # 2, 2015, pp. 43-53

cooperation with international organizations and financial institutions. Because,
some of those agencies are carrying out these types of activities. For example, there
is the program of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development related to
the covering of the 40-60% of the costs incurred for the implementation of
international standards by the manufacturers of our country. The program is being
implemented successfully.
4. Encourage the establishment of private conformity assessment bodies.
Mandatory conformity assessment activities in the country for a long time carried
out by the government prevented the establishment of private enterprises in this
field. However, passing to the private sector this type of activity in our country as
well paved the way for the creation of this type of enterprises. Most of the private
certification companies operating in Azerbaijan are foreign and international
companies. Local companies have shown little interest in this area. On the other
hand, despite the fact that this area is liberalized, the provision of those services by
state enterprises prevents the creation of private enterprises. Therefore, the
expansion of this field is very important both from obtaining by manufacturers more
competitive conformity assessment services and from the development of the
business areas related to conformity assessment activities point of view. There are
hundreds of private enterprises in this field in Europe. Competition among them
leads to service quality improvement and price reduction for the services provided to
the manufacturers.
In our country, to encourage the industry the awareness and promotion activities
should be taken in the first place. As well as technical support to fulfill the necessary
requirements of local businesses and their accreditation should be conducted. Because,
the lack of accreditation of local businesses means abcence of international recognition
of their compliance documents, which in turn discourages manufacturers from using
their services. The accredited local companies should be registered and those companies
should be recommended to the manufacturers. [Aslanov Z.Y. 2015. p.149]
One more issue should be noted that some even international certification
companies operating in our country deceive manufacturers by selling fake
certificates to them or give them for extra money a certificate before necessary
requirements met by manufacturers. That‟s means delusion of consumers and sale of
unsafe products to them. Therefore, in addition to promoting the creation of private
enterprises, their operation in accordance with requirements, especially the

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