OREANDA-NEWS. According to the Representatives of the State Standardization Committee, the programme provides for introducing and certifying quality management systems in at least 2,100 organizations, environmental protection management systems - in at least 255 organizations, HACCP-based systems - in at least 250 organizations, reported the Official website www.government.by.

In the modern world heavy competition between producers of goods and services as well as rising prices for energy and raw materials encourage continuous improvement of the operation of enterprises and organizations. Taking into account the fact, the Quality programme provides for introducing and certifying quality management systems at Belarusian companies. The quality management systems will be compliant with international standards ISO/TS 16949 (automobile engineering), ISO/TS 29001 (oil extraction, petrochemical and gas industry), ISO/TS 13485 (medical goods), ISO IEC 90003 (software), TL 9000 (telecommunications). The programme also provides for methodological, consultative and personnel support for these processes.

The source also pointed out the growing need for assimilating solutions combining quality, ecology and labour safety management. The integrated solutions give genuine advantages in competition such as the ability to correctly define and adjust the strategy and development priorities, renew workflow schemes, take effective management decisions.

The main areas the programme will deal with include quality management and improvement of export capacity of domestic producers, resource and energy saving, improvement of quality and competitive ability of the main kinds of services and works, development of technical standardization, conformance evaluation, metrological assurance and technical aids for tests.

Belarus has been practicing a systematic comprehensive approach to quality since 1998. The new 2007-2010 Quality programme is a logical continuation of the efforts and encourages ministries, concerns, and economic agents to produce more quality, safer goods, competitive and energy-effective goods.