The Department for Trade and Management continues to prepare for the International Research Conference "Standartisation and vertification: EU Experience and Cooperation Prospects". The conference will be held on the 5th of April, 2018.

On the 16th of January conference project group met to plan the upcoming event. The following issues were discussed in the meeting: publishing of the proceedings and requirements for the authors from Russia and abroad; informational support of the event; volunteer reqruitment; jury and competition organisation. The conference organisers have already received submissions from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, France, Germany, Israel, Australia and USA.

The project “Standardization in Product Quality Management: EU Experience and Cooperation Prospects”, 574925-EPP-1-2016-1-RU-EPPJMO-MODULE, is co-financed by European Commission within the framework of Jean Monnet Actions. The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsi­ble for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.