G/TBT/N/UKR/234  
1 November 2022  
(22-8168) 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 Agrarian Policy and Food 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):  Quick -
frozen food products  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Order of 
the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine "On approval of Hygienic requirements 
for quick -frozen food products intended for human consu mption"; (7 page(s), in 
Ukrainian)  
6. Description of content:  The draft Order:  
1) introduces the definition of quick -frozen food products in the legislation of Ukraine;  
2) establishes general principles that have to be met by quick -frozen food products;  
3) determines the level of temperature that has to be maintained at the facilities engaged 
in handling, storage, warehousing, transportation and/or circulation of quick -frozen food 
products;  
4) establishes the requirements for freezing equipment and the list of cryogenic 
substances (liquids) allowed to be used for quick freezing of food products;  
5) establishes the peculiarities of labeling of quick -frozen food products.  
Food products that complied with the requirements of the legislation on safety and ce rtain 
food quality indicators, which was in force before the entry into force of this order, but do 
not meet the requirements of this order, may be produced and/or put into circulation 
within three years after the entry into force of this order and be in c irculation until the 
minimum expiration date.  
The draft Order is designed to implement Commission Regulation (EC) No 37/2005 of 12 
January 2005 on the monitoring of temperatures in the means of transport, warehousing 
and storage of quick -frozen foodstuffs intended for human consumption, Council Directive 
89/108/EEC of 21 December 1988 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States 
relating to quick -frozen foodstuffs for human consumption.  G/TBT/N/UKR/234  
 
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  The draft Order is also notified in accordance with the requir ements of the Agreement on 
the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Protection of human health or safety; 
Quality require ments  
8. Relevant documents:   
Laws of Ukraine "On the Basic Principles and Requirements for Food Safety and Quality", 
"On Consumer Information on Food"  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  The Order will come into force from the date of its 
official publication and will be enacted in one year from the date of its official publication.  
10. Final date for comments:  60 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://minagro.gov.ua/npa/pro -zatverdzhennya -gigiyenichnih -vimog -do-
shvidkozamorozhenih -harchovih -produktiv -priznachenih -dlya-spozhivannya -
lyudinoyu#msdynttrid=hy7 -AFz1xKKm EvR_FA -J6AWondjMUoiY3S4TLieh578  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/UKR/22_7369_00_x.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/UKR/22_7369_01_x.pdf