RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONWT/ACC/UKR/87
29 November 2000
(00-5130)
Working Party on the
Accession of UkraineOriginal:  English
ACCESSION OF UKRAINE
Approximate Schedule for the Approval of the Draft Laws in the
Trade Field by the Supreme Rada of Ukraine for 2000-2001
The Governmental Commission on Ukraine's Accession to the WTO has submitted the
following information with the request that it be  circulated to members of the Working Party.
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Page 2Draft Laws of UkraineApproximate Date for the Approval
of the Draft Law
ECONOMIC POLICY AND GENERAL TREATMENT IN GOODS TRADE
1. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Foreign Economic Activity”;
2. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of Certain Laws of Ukraine on Regulation of Cars Market in Ukraine”;3. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Revoking Section II of the Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of Certain Legislative Acts on Issues 
Related to Taxation of Goods and other Items Imported into Ukraine”; and
4. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On the Regulation of Barter Transactions in Foreign Economic 
Activity”.1. First half year of 2001
2. First half year of 20013. Second half year of 2001
4. First half year of 2001
1. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On the Value Added Tax”;
2. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of Article 20 of the Law of Ukraine “On Enterprises in Ukraine”;3. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Entrepreneurship”;4. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine on 
Responsibility for Deceit of a Buyer or Consumer”;
5. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Mortgage”;6. Draft Tax Code of Ukraine;7. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Issues Related to Taxation”;8. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Immovable Property (Real Estate) Tax”;9. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Physical Persons Income Tax”;
10. Draft Law of Ukraine “On the Grounds of the State Regulatory Policy in the Field of Entrepreneurial Activity”;
11. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Tax System”;12. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of Certain Laws of Ukraine on the Excise and Import Duty Rates”;13. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Leasing”;14. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Accreditation of Bodies for Conformity Assessment”;15. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Confirmation of Conformity”;
16. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Standardization”;
17. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On the Quality and Safety of Food Products and Food Raw 
Materials”;
18. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Safety of Industrial Products”;19. Draft Law of Ukraine “On the Responsibility of Suppliers for the Output and Sale of Low Quality and Hazardous Produce”;
20. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Foreign Investment Regime”;
21. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of Article 4 of the Law of Ukraine “On Entrepreneurship” (on licensing of the 
international transportation of passengers and cargo by rail way, automobile, air, river and sea transport and internal 
transportation of passengers by the automobile transport);
22. The Judicial Code of Ukraine;23. Draft Customs Code of Ukraine;
24. Draft Law of Ukraine “On the Protection of Economic Competition”;
25. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine "On State Regulation of Improt of Agricultural Produce”;26. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Revoking the Law of Ukraine "On Export Duty Rates for Seeds of Certain Oil Crops”;27. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Revoking the Law of Ukraine "On Export Duty for Live Cattle and Leather Raw Materials”; and28. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Single Customs Tariff”.1. First half year of 2001
2. Second half year of 20013. Second half year of 20014. Second half year of 2001
5. First half year of 2001
6. First half year of 20017. First half year of 20018. Second half year of 20019. Second half year of 2001
10. Second half year of 2001
11. Second half year of 200112. Second half year of 200113. Second half year of 200114. First half year of 200115. Second half year of 2001
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Page 3PRIVATIZATION
1. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of Article 5 of the Law of Ukraine “On Privatization of the State-Owned Property” and 
the Law of Ukraine “On the List of the State-Owned Objects which are not Subject to Privatization”;
2. Draft Law of Ukraine “On the State Property Fund”;3. Draft Law of Ukraine “On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2001”;4. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On the Budget System of Ukraine”; and
5. Draft Law of Ukraine “On privatization of small state enterprises”.1. Second half year of 2001
2. First half year of 2001
3. December of 20004. Second half year of 2001
5. First half year of 2001
LEGAL RELATIONS IN THE FIELD OF PRODUCTION AND TRADE WITH AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE
1. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On State Regulation of Import of Agricultural Produce”;2. Draft Law of Ukraine “On the Fixed Agricultural Tax”;
3. Draft Land Code of Ukraine;4. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Revoking the Law of Ukraine “On Export Duty Rates for Seeds of Certain Oil Crops”;5. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Revoking the Law of Ukraine “On Export Duty for Live Cattle and Leather Raw Materials”;6. Draft Law of Ukraine :On Fish, Sea Products and Produce Thereof”;
7. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Fish Industry”;
8. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of Certain Legislative Acts on Issues Related to Veterinary Medicine”;9. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Infringements” (on responsibility for 
infringements of the laws on issues related to livestock breeding);
10. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Agreements Related to a Land Share”;11. Draft Decree of the President of Ukraine “On the Main Grounds for Development of the Social Field in the Country”;
12. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Settlement of Indebtedness under the Budget Loans Granted to the Reorganized Agricultural 
Enterprises Through Servicing, Procuring and Processing Organizations”;
13. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Agricultural Cooperation”;14. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Stimulation of the Development of Agriculture for 2001-2004”;15. Draft Concept of the Law of Ukraine “On Grain”;16. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Seeds”;
17. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of Article 7 of the Law of Ukraine “On Peculiarities of Privatization of the Property in 
the Agroindustrial Complex”;
18. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Land Rents in Ukraine”;19. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Infringements on the Establishment of the 
Responsibility for Infringements of the Laws on the Bee-keeping”;
20. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Private Peasant Farming”;
21. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Legal Protection of Selection Achievements in Livestock”; and22. Draft Law of Ukraine “On the State Land Cadastre”.1. First half year of 2001
2. Second half year of 2001
3. Second half year of 20014. First half year of 20015. First half year of 20016. Second half year of 2001
7. Second half year of 2001
8. Second half year of 20019. Second half year of 2001
10. First half year of 2001
11. Second half year of 2001
12. First half year of 2001
13. First half year of 2001
14. Second half year of 200115. Second half year of 200116. Second half year of 2001
17. Second half year of 2001
18. Second half year of 2001
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20. Second half year of 2001
21. Second half year of 200122. Within three months 
from the date of coming into force of the Land Code of Ukraine
1. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Plant Quarantine”;2. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ukraine’s Accession to the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, 
1991 Act”;
3. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Protection of Rights to Varieties of Plants”;4. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Seeds”;1. Second half year of 2001
2. Second half year of 2001
3. First half year of 2001
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Page 45. Draft Law of Ukraine “On the State Sanitary and Hygienic Expertise”;
6. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Veterinary Medicine”; and
7. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Sanitary and Epidemic Safety of the Population”.5. First half year of 2001
6. First half year of 2001
7. Second half year of 2001
GENERAL TREATMENT OF TRADE IN SERVICES
1. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of Article 6 of the Law of Ukraine “On Insurance”;2. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Insurance”;3. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Circulation of Bills of Exchange in Ukraine”;4. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Currency Regulation”;5. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Banks and Banking” (the new wording);6. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Financial Transactions”;
7. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Payment Systems and Transfer of Money in Ukraine”;
8. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Telecommunications”;9. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Postal Services”;10. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Information”;12. Draft Law of Ukraine “On the Protection of Personal Data”;13. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Electronic Circulation of the Documents”;
14. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of Certain Legislative Ac ts of Ukraine in the Field of Commercial Navigation”; and
15. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Radio-Frequency Resource of Ukraine”.1. First half year of 2001
2. First half year of 20013. Second half year of 20014. Quarter I of 20015. First half year of 20016. First half year of 2001
7. Quarter II of 2001
8. Second half year of 200110. Prior to the end of 200011. Prior to the end of 200012. First half year of 200113. Second half year of 2001
14. Second half year of 2001
15. First half year of 2001
FORMATION OF THE MECHANISM TO ENSURE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
1. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of Some Legislative Acts on the Reinforcement of Responsibility for Infringements in 
the Field of Intellectual Property”;
2. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Copyright and Related Rights”;
3. Draft Criminal Code of Ukraine;
4. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ukraine’s Accession to the WIPO Agreements “On Copyright” and “On Performers and 
Phonograms” approved by the Diplomatic Conference on 20 December 1996”;
5. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ukraine’s Accession to the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of 
Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations”;
6. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Peculiarities of State Regulation of Entrepreneurial Activity in the Field of Production, Export and  
Import of Discs for Laser Playback Systems”;
7. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ratification of the Agreement on Measures on the Prevention and Cessation of Use of Untrue 
Trademarks and Geographical Indications”;
8. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ratification of the Agreement on Cooperation on Cessation of Infringements in the Field of 
Intellectual Property”;1. December of  2000
2. Approved by the Supreme 
Rada of Ukraine on 3 November  2000
3. First half year of 2001
4. Second half year of 2001
5. Second half year of 20016. First half year of 2001
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Page 59. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of Certain Legislative Acts on Issues Related to Intellectual Property in Order to Ensure
the Comprehensive Functioning of the State System for Intellectual Property Protection”;
10. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Geographical Names”;11. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Protection of Rights to Industrial Designs”;12. Draft Civil Code of Ukraine;13. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Protection of Rights to Varieties of Plants”;14. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendment of the Law of Ukraine “On Plant Quarantine”;
15. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ukraine’s Accession to the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, 
1991 Act”;
16. Draft Law of Ukraine “On the State Statistics”;17. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Protection of Personal Data”; and18. Draft Customs Code of Ukraine.9. December of 2000
10. First half year of 2001
11. First half year of 200112. First half year of 200113. First half year of 200114. First half year of 2001
15. First half year of 2001
16. Second half year of 2001
17. Second half year of 200118. First half year of 2001
TRADE AND ECONOMIC AGREEMENTS
1. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ratification of the Agreement on International Automobile Transport between the Government of 
Ukraine and the Government of Iran”;
2. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of Latvia on
International Automobile Communication and the Executive Protocol on the Application of the said Agreement”;
3. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of Poland 
on International Automobile Transportation”;
4. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of Estonia 
on International Automobile Transportation of Passengers and Cargo and the Protocol on the Application of the said Agreement”;
5. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of Egypt on
Trade Cooperation”;
6. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of Iran on 
Sea Commercial Navigation”;
7. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ratification of the Agreement between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Government of 
Bulgaria on Sea Commercial Navigation”;
8. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of Israel on 
Issues Related to Navigation and Sea Transportation”;
9. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ratification of the Agreement on the Procedure for Transit through CIS Countries”;
10. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of Armenia 
on Principles of Levying Indirect Taxes During Export and Import of Goods (Works and Services)”; and
11. Draft Law of Ukraine “On Ratification of the Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of 
Kirgizstan on Principles of Levying Indirect Taxes During Export and Import of Goods (Works and Services)”.1. Second half year of 2001
2. Second half year of 20013. Second half year of 2001
4. Second half year of 2001
5. Second half year of 2001
6. Second half year of 2001
7. Second half year of 20018. Second half year of 2001
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