State system of standardization provides for the use of:

• interstate standards ( OCT) of Commonwealth of Independent States;

• standards of the Republic of Belarus (CT)

• guidelines (P), which specify rules and methods of control for specific object in particular industrial sector;

• specification (T) and technical description (TO) for specific types of technical means;

• standards of enterprise (CT)

All these categories of normative documents are legitimate in non destructive testing and cover both the matters of metrology and techniques for NDT implementation and its technical assurance.

For the industry of Belarus from the point of view of products quality assurance the main priority has standardization of requirements to the procedures of NDT implementation that provides for:

• classification of NDT methods;
• choice of optimal methods for specific objects inspection and technical means for its implementation;
• standardization of technologies for NDT implementation, systems for evaluation quality of objects to be inspected and requirements to the collection and processing of the control results;
• safety requirements to the control implementation.

At present on the BANK & TD initiative the relevant work is performing in Belarus for improving normative documents in NDT with the aim to harmonise them with European standards, norms and rules.

For example, standards being developed for ultrasonic testing and radiography of welds in main and industrial pipelines will take into account the requirements of relevant national standards of Germany, England.

Such an approach will bring its positive contribution both in recognition of control and testing results and certification of potentially dangerous products.