State Standard of Ukraine (DSTU)

Why do we need standards? If there are no standards for the products production then will be chaos in the country, because each enterprise of every industry will produce products not guided by the quality and consumers requirements.

The general interstate standards GOSTs operated earlier in Ukraine (firsts of them approved in 1940-th). Ukraine became its independent in 1991 and there was a need in own state standards – DSTU («State Standards of Ukraine»).

The above mentioned standard entitles to control the products quality on the country territory and in case of non-compliance – strictly punish.

Ukraine has began to develop DSTU for products and requirements, norms and rules, terms, concepts and designations, technology and production, standards for the interconnection and joining various science and culture fields since 1993.

The DSTU establishment provided by specially created standardization committees (Technical Committees (TC)). Technical Committees consist of researchers (including candidates of technical sciences, doctors, academicians, professors, etc.), departments and ministries, standardization members, organizations competent in a certain industry and having a scientific and technical potential.

The national standards of Ukraine creating principle described in DSTU 1.2:2003 «National standardization. Rules for the national regulations development»

DSTU development and introduction provided according to the standardization plan and consists of the following stages:

1. Organization development of the standard.
   The creators appointed and a technical task prepared with agreed by certain authority and approved by the TC head. The most competent organization or enterprise can also be involved for coordination.
2. Development the draft standard of the first edition.
   The tests and work has provided and optimal indicators select according to their results. The explanatory note, the technical and economic calculations and a plan of measures for implementing the standard prepare at the same time. The finished draft and an explanatory note sent to the coordinating organizations of this DSTU.
3. Development the final draft standard.
   TC receives responses from organizations and prepares a list with comments and proposals for the draft standard. The draft elaboration occurs further.
4. Approval and state registration.
   Derzhspozhyvstandard of Ukraine provides the DSTU editorial expertise, approves and puts the commissioning date, registers in order to exclude duplications.
5. DSTU publishing, printing and selling through special stores.
6. Overseeing the implementation and compliance with DSTU.

In conclusion, we would like to say the most of DSTU are not approved, because of «weak financing». That’s why enterprises and organizations often use ISO standards or GOSTs (regulates the standards implementation at CIS countries). The GOSTs and ISO standards use necessary in order to products quality control and regulate the requirements for it.

There is a financial injections attraction in the standard development at 2-nd stage, because of the «weak financing» from organizations participate at the DSTU creating process.

These organizations have the right to dictate their requirements to the products quality and significantly understate them under needed «frameworks». As the result, there is a problem as «Made-to-order DSTU» in Ukraine.