Belarusian Autoworks (BelAZ trademark) has confirmed the compliance of its mine dump trucks with requirements of the Customs Union’s technical regulation on safety, representatives of the company told BelTA.

The declaration of compliance of the dump trucks with requirements of the Customs Union’s technical regulation TR TC 010/2011 has been registered by the certification body and has been entered into the common registry of issued compliance certificates and registered declarations of compliance.

Thus, the company has confirmed the compliance of mine dump trucks BelAZ 75281 and mine dump trucks BelAZ 7558 with requirements of the Customs Union’s technical regulations. The registered declarations now enable the company to mark mine dump trucks with Customs Union market signs. BelAZ will continue working to confirm the compliance of other mining vehicles with this technical regulation.

The Customs Union’s technical regulation on safety of machines and equipment came into force on 15 February 2013. The regulation introduced the minimal safety requirements for machines and equipment during their designing, manufacturing, installation, tuning, operation, storage, transportation, sale and utilization for the sake of protecting lives and health of people, property, environmental protection, prevention of actions that mislead customers.

Founded in September 1948, the Zhodino-based mechanical engineering company Belarusian Autoworks (BelAZ) was incorporated into a joint-stock company in 2010. As of October 2012 OAO BelAZ is the management company of BelAZ Holding. BelAZ offers rock haulers, frontal wheeled loaders and bulldozers, tow trucks, special vehicles for underground operations, heavy-duty trucks for metallurgy industry, and other specialized vehicles. BelAZ accounts for a third of the global market of rock haulers and is a leading global supplier of quarry machines.