The State Committee for Technical Regulation and Consumer Policy (Derzhspozhivstandard, or DSSU) is the Ukrainian

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 state standards organization

Standards organization

A standards organization, standards body, standards developing organization , or standards setting organization is any organization whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise producing technical standards that are...

, established in 2002. It is the successor to the State Committee of Ukraine for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (Derzhstandart), which in turn was preceded by the Gosstandart

Gosstandart

Gosstandart was the Soviet government agency responsible for standardization, metrology, and quality management. The name is an abbreviation for Gosudarstvennyy standart ....

 standards agency of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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, before Ukrainian independence in 1991.

External links

• State Committee for Technical Regulation and Consumer Policy official website
• State Committee for Technical Regulation and Consumer Policy at the Ukrainian government portal