When drafting regulations the competent authorities refer to the standards. This:

 

-        simplifies and speeds up the legislative process;

-        facilitates the removal of barriers to trade;

-        ensures better application of technical regulations;

-        eliminate differences between national technical regulations of different countries, by referring to mutually agreed European and international standards

-        does not require modification of regulations due to technical progress (it only modifies the standard - undated reference).

References to standards can be:

·         dated,

·         undated,

·         general.

·         Reference to standards that identifies one or more specific standards, in such a way that later revisions of the standards are not to be applied unless the regulation is modified.

·         A standard is usually identified only by its number, and either date or edition.

·         The title may also be given.

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·         Reference to standards that identifies one or more specific standards, in such a way that later revisions of standards are to be applied without the need to modify the regulation.

·         A standard is usually identified only by its number.

·         The title may also be given.

Example:

 

 

 

 

·         Reference to standards that designates all standards of specific body and/or in particular field without identifying them individually.

Example:

 

 

 

The competitiveness of BiH companies is closely related to their ability to produce quality and safe products in accordance with the requirements of relevant technical regulations and BAS standards. A prerequisite for such production is an efficient quality infrastructure system.

A network of institutions and organizations in the field of quality infrastructure has been established in Bosnia and Herzegovina, consisting of: the Institute for Standardization of BiH, the Institute of Metrology of BiH, the Institute for Accreditation of BiH and the BiH Market Surveillance Agency. In this way, all companies are enabled to meet market requirements in terms of the quality of the goods they place on the market, easier and simpler export of goods, and it also guarantee that consumers are buying safe products.

In the forthcoming period, the Institute for Standardization of BiH will successively inform all stakeholders about laws and bylaws, as well as the institutions that adopted them (from the state and entity levels), in which references to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s  (BAS) standards were made.

Particularly, in addition to the complete list and texts of European directives transposed into BiH legislation and links to BAS standards they refer to, which have been available on the ISBIH website so far, a list of more than 130 laws and bylaws that refer to BiH standards (BAS) will be also available to all stakeholders.