Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology is included in the system of federal executive bodies of the Russian Federation and is under jurisdiction of Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. September 15, 1925 the Committee on Standardization at the Council of Labour and Defense was established.

Main objectives: realization of functions of the national standards body; ensuring of uniformity of measurements; implementation of state control (supervision) over observation of the requirements of technical regulations and obligatory requirements of standards; creation and maintenance of the federal information corpus of technical regulations and standards and the unified system of technical regulating; implementation of organizational and methodical guidance over maintenance of the Federal system of products codification for the federal state needs; organization of work on registration of damnification cases as a result of violation of technical regulation requirements; organizational and methodical provision of a contest for a prize of the Russian Federation Government in the field of quality and other contests in the field of quality; rendering state services in the sphere of standardization, technical regulating and metrology.