TR CU 007: Approvals for Children's and Teens' Goods
TR CU 007/2011 governs products for children and teenagers across the Customs Union. Compliance can take three forms, state registration followed by a declaration, a declaration alone, or certification, and which applies depends on the product, its clothing layer, and the child's age.
What are the three forms of compliance under TR CU 007?
Across the five EAEU member states, TR CU 007/2011, On the Safety of Products intended for Kids and Teenagers, is mandatory. Compliance can be confirmed in one of three ways, depending on the regulation’s requirements for the product:
- State Registration Certificate, followed by a conformity declaration
- Conformity declaration alone
- Certification
The definitions that drive everything
| Term | Age |
|---|---|
| Newborns | Under 28 days inclusive |
| Kids | Users under 14 |
| Teenagers | Users aged 14 to 18 |
The three clothing layers
First layer, direct contact with skin: underwear and bedclothing, shaping underwear and swimwear, summer headwear, hosiery, handkerchiefs and kerchiefs.
Second layer, limited contact: dresses, blouses, outer shirts, trousers, skirts, unlined suits, sweaters, jumpers, headwear other than summer, mittens, gloves, autumn-winter hosiery.
Third layer, coats, short coats, jackets, trenches, lined suits, newborn wraps.
Which products need a certificate under TR CU 007?
- Moulded and non-moulded rubber sanitary items for child care
- Sanitary items and fancy goods in plastic and metal
- Bedclothing
- Knit and textile first-layer underwear
- Knit first-layer hosiery
- Knit and textile first-layer summer headwear
- Leather and textile second-layer clothes and items
- Knit second-layer items
- Knit, textile and leather second-layer headwear for children under 1
- Knit, textile and leather third-layer clothes for children under 1
- Fur clothes, items and headwear for children under 1
- Footwear, except coarse felted footwear
- Strollers
- Bicycles
How age changes the answer
The clearest illustration is headwear, where a single product type takes three different routes depending on layer and age:
| Product | Age | Approval |
|---|---|---|
| First-layer summer headwear | Under 3 | State Registration Certificate + Declaration |
| First-layer summer headwear | Over 3 | Certificate |
| Second-layer winter headwear | Under 1 | Certificate |
| Second-layer winter headwear | Over 1 | Declaration |
Stockings and socks take a declaration. First-layer items for children over 3 take a certificate; second-layer items take a certificate on both sides of the 1-year threshold.
The lesson is that “children’s clothing” is not one regulatory category. A range spanning newborn to teenage sizes can need several different documents for what is commercially a single product line.
What falls outside TR CU 007?
- Products designed and manufactured for medical use
- Child nutrition products
- Perfumery and cosmetics
- Sports items and equipment
- Learning aids, schoolbooks, electronic learning editions
- Toys and printed board games
- Furniture
- Custom-tailored products
Several of these are regulated elsewhere rather than unregulated, toys have their own regulations, and child nutrition falls under the food regime.
Obtaining the certificate
Certification runs under schemes 1c, 2c, 3c or 4c, in seven stages:
- Submit an application to an accredited certification body
- Collect the necessary documentation
- For stock-produced items, analyse the manufacturing process
- Collect samples for the testing laboratory
- Testing, with the test certificate issued
- Obtain the certificate of conformity
- Enter the data into the united register of the Federal Accreditation Service
The applicant then applies the EAC mark, and the products are released into the Customs Union markets.
Validity: maximum 5 years, minimum 1 year.
Sources
- TR CU 007/2011, On the safety of products intended for children and adolescents, Eurasian Economic Commission
- Unified register of certificates and declarations
Frequently asked questions
How does TR CU 007 define the age groups?
Newborns are babies under 28 days inclusive; kids are users under 14; teenagers are users aged 14 to 18. Those thresholds matter because the required approval form changes at 1 year and again at 3 years for several product types.
Which products need a certificate under TR CU 007?
Among others: rubber sanitary items for child care; sanitary items and fancy goods in plastic and metal; bedclothing; first-layer knit and textile underwear and hosiery; first-layer summer headwear; second-layer leather and textile clothes and knit items; third-layer clothing for children under 1; fur clothing for under-1s; footwear except coarse felted; strollers; and bicycles.
What falls outside TR CU 007?
Products designed and manufactured for medical use, child nutrition, perfumery and cosmetics, sports items and equipment, learning aids and schoolbooks, toys and printed board games, furniture, and custom-tailored products. Toys have a regulation of their own.
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