Certificate of Conformity acerts that the goods delivered in Russia, and/or production line where they were manufactured, conform to the Russian Safety Standards.

Typically, the exporters choose one of the three types of GOST-R certificates.
   1. Shipment certification: provides necessary certificates for only one shipment. Fastest and least costly.
   2. Batch certification: allows the specified product to be imported in Russia for one year, regardless of the number of shipments and volume (does not affect Custom dues!).
   3. Production certification: Russian experts certify the manufacturing facility, which allows to list and export to Russia any products coming off this facility for 3 years. Costs more as it involves inviting 2-3 Russian experts to inspect the facility.

Depending on the product, the GOST-R certificate may require prior hygienic or fire safety certification.

Hygienic Certificate confirms the conformity of production and product to Russian sanitary requirements; this applies to the manufacturing, storage, transportation and sales.

Some products may not be be subject to mandatory hygienic certification.

The term of validity of a Hygienic Certificate may be 1, 3 or 5 years. In the certain cases, (manufacturing of experimental sets of new kinds of production, implementation of essentially new technologies, using non-conventional raw material or components), the validity of Hygienic Certificate may be reduced at the experts' discretion.

Certification of products and services for fire safety acerts the conformity of products to the requirements of the Russian fire safety codes. In many cases, SFC is an obligatory component of the GOST-R Certification. The procedures for obtaining the SFC are determined by the Russian State Fire Service and the Committee of the Russian Federation on Standardization, Metrology and Certification (GOSTANDART).

Products which are subject to mandatory certification are specified in the constantly renewed Official List; fire safety certification procedures are based on the current Russian fire safety regulations and testing methodologies.