VNIIS Exemption Letter

The VNIIS Exemption letter in other words the GOST R Exemption letter. The name “The GOST R Exemption letter” formulates the essence of the problem for solution of which the drawing up of this letter was performed. The name “The VNIIS Exemption letter” was given after the name of the official structure that was authorized to draw up the given permissive document.
The VNIIS Exemption appear to be the obligatory letter for the production that is not required to be proved for conformity.
The VNIIS Exemption letter related to the permissive documents because it gave right to cross the border of the RF to the goods for which the Russian legislation did not require obligatory drawing up the GOST R Conformity Certificate and Declaration within the system of certification. For such kinds of goods the VNIIS Exemption letter was required for the customs clearance. It had to be provided to the customs officer in the process of check up. The given requirement covered imported and exported production.
The VNIIS Exemption letter for the customs office obligatory included the number of the contract in accordance to which the delivery to the RF territory of the production listed in the letter was performed. In order to draw up the VNIIS Exemption Letter for the Customs Office the copy of the contract was obligatory document. It was existence of the number of the contract that differed the VNIIS Exemption letter for the Customs Office from the VNIIS Exemption letter for trading.
The history of the VNIIS Exemption Letters
In the certain moment of the historical reality for automating different processes creating the systems of classification of all kinds of production manufactured on the RF territory was required. The given task was the responsibility of the Gosstandart that developed the Russian classifier of production (RCP) with great difficulties. The given normative document regulated all the consecutive decisions that the given federal structure had right to make.
Along with development of industry and correspondingly with broadening of the nomenclature of goods as a whole we saw the development of outer goods turnover. For the institution’s inner needs (the Customs Service) in the certain moment of the history there was a need to order the nomenclature of goods participating in the process of import and export of the Russian Federation. Customs officers developed their own codifier which included their own approaches (provoked by the specifics of the international goods turnover) to the production classification. So, they created the codifier of the Goods Nomenclature of the Foreign Economical Activity of the Russian Federation (GN FEA).
From the moment when the obligatory certification for certain kinds of products started in Russia (the list of which was given in the codes of RCP because the regulating documents were issued by the Gosstandart) and the Customs Legislation included articles about the obligatory providing of permissive documents, drawn up in the frameworks of the technical regulation in the process of Customs Check up, so here they saw different controversial based on the existence in Russia of two big codifiers. All the regulating documents were issued by the Russian Customs office with providing the codes of the GN FEA (nowadays the codes of the GN FEA of the CU are valid).
In order to evade the appeared controversions connected with the codification, they developed re-codifying tables or the tables of correspondence of the RCP code to the GN FEA code. But even they were not able to solve the disputes. In order that the importer or exported could move the goods across the border there as a need of special letter of an official or competent body saying that the certain kind of goods does not require the document of obligatory certification.
And such body was named the Russian Research Institute of Certification. In this way the VNIIS Exemption Letter appeared, and consequently it became the obligatory document for providing to the Customs Officer for the goods that are not the objects of the obligatory proof that they conform to the GOST R system.
Abolition of the VNIIS Exemption Letters
First, the VNIIS Exemption letter for the Customs Office was renamed and later it was absolutely abolished after the introduction of the Customs Union Legislation on the territory of the RF. The Customs Union made it obligatory to go through the process of sanitary for certain kinds of production. Besides, the CU introduced the obligation of drawing up of the unitary certificates of conformity and declarations of conformity in the frameworks of requirements of the Customs Union. The regulation documents include the codes of the production listed on the base GN FEA valid in the countries of the Customs Union (GN FEA CU). Along with this there is obligation of the state certification within the GOST R system of Russian certification for some kinds of goods.
The VNIIS Exemption Letter became impossible to draw up for the Institute specializing in the system of the obligatory Russian certification. That is why late 2010 all the powers for the Exemption Letters for the Customs Office were transferred to the Ministry of Industry and Trade and later they were abolished at all. Nowadays the burden of proof that there is no need to certify the production within the GOST R system is laid upon the applicant.
Theoretically, the Exemption Letter may be drawn up in the frameworks of any system of products certification. The question for what purposes is it needed and if it will be accepted byt the body that requested the existence of such explanation document Nowadays the Exemption Letters mostly have just informative character and lost their permissive function. Even more the given statement relates to the VNIIS Exemption Letter (The GOST R Exemption Letter).

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