The Technical Regulations is a document (legal act), which sets technical standards for the mandatory application to the objects of technical regulation. For objects of technical regulation are: production processes, management, storage, transport, sale and disposal of products, including buildings.
The concept of technical regulations was introduced for the first time with Federal Law No. 184, December 27, 2002 "On technical regulation", which included the replacement of tens of thousands of GOST and health standards with a few hundred Technical Regulations.

A few days ago, the situation regarding the certification of wines has affected the head of the Federal Service for the protection of consumer rights and welfare of the people (Rospotrebnadzor) Gennady Onishenko. The entry into force of the new code of the Customs Union on health care has introduced some innovations in this area. If wine was first to import the certification required sanitation, now this product is in the list of products for which the health certificate is required or the registration of the customs union Medicare, as they call it in Russia.

01 July 2010 entered into force on the Customs Union agreement on sanitary measures. The new legislation abolished the sanitary-epidemiological conclusion certificate and introduced the Hygienic Certificate of the Customs Union, to attest the quality and safety of products. The document will be valid throughout the Customs Union.
The sanitary-epidemiological conclusion certificates and national hygienic certificates issued by the Russian authorities will be valid until 01/01/2012 only on the territory of the Russian Federation.

On July 1, came into force on the Customs Code, which is the main operating under the Customs Union between the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan and Belarus.Among the most significant immediate effects of the Customs Code introduced by the EU are the adoption of common standards of health and hygiene across a range of commodities and changes in import of alcoholic beverages in the customs area: the limit of transport for individuals decreased from ten to five liters, while the relief is not subject to the duty increases from two to three liters.