The New Role Of National Standards In The Russian Industry

In this article, the author attempts to show that the law «On technical regulation» based on the conviction of the need to reduce state involvement in the economy, weakened the consumer protection against imposition of goods with insufficient quality . A range of product properties is regarded as a matter of the agreement between consumers and producers without the regulatory role of the government, although partners of this exchange are not competent enough. This is one of the reasons for the systematic decline in the quality of many products in the past ten years. Decline in the quality of many products is particularly dangerous at the moment when the situation in our external trade calls for of import substitution. The author offers some considerations how to return public institutions the sphere of standardization sphere, which, in his opinion,will be able have to stop decline in the quality of domestic products and create the preconditions for its increase.