G/TBT/N/UKR/222  
30 August 2022  
(22-6493) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UKRAINE  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Ministry of Health of Ukraine  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Hazardous 
chemicals  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Resolution 
of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine "On Prohibition of the Production and Use at Work 
of Certain Hazardous Chemicals"; (3 page(s), in Ukrainian)  
6. Description of content:  The draft Resolution provides for the approval of the List of 
hazardous chemicals prohibited for production and use at work.  
It is also defined that the prohibition does not apply if:  
- the chemical substance is present in another  chemical substance, or as a constituent of 
waste, provided that its concentration therein is less than the limit specified;  
- for the purpose of scientific research testing and analysis;  
- for activities intended to eliminate chemical substances that are present in the form of 
by-products or waste products;  
- for the production of the chemical substances specified in the List for use as 
intermediates, and for such use.  
The draft Resolution is designed to implement Council Directive 98/24/EC of 7 April 1998 
on the protection of the health and safety of workers from the risks related to chemical 
agents at work (fourteenth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of 
Directive 89/391/EEC) as regards the adoption of a list of hazardous chemic als prohibited 
for production and use at work, which will be further revised and supplemented.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  To prevent the exposure of workers to health risks from certain chemical 
substances and/or certain activities involving chemical substances; Protection of human 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
Law of Ukraine "On Ensuring Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare of the Population"  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 January 2023  
10. Final date for comments:  30 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
https://moz.gov.ua/ar ticle/public -discussions/proekt -postanovi -kabinetu -ministriv -
ukraini -pro-zaboronu -virobnictva -i-vikoristannja -v-roboti -dejakih -nebezpechnih -
himichnih -rechovin  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/UKR/22_5857_00_x.pdf