From 2013, due to the entry of Russia into the WTO and its inclusion into the Customs Union, a technical regulation is getting into force in Russia, which establishes mandatory requirements for many types of products.
Thus, in June technical regulations of the Customs Union will be issued, on food safety, its labeling and other aspects of the production, processing and marketing.
In Russia, many qualitative indices of fruit and vegetable products are fixed in state standards, which from summer 2013 will become the evidence base for adopted technical regulations.
Source: www.fruitnews.ru