G/TBT/N/UKR/278  
15 December 2023  
(23-8599) 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:   
The State Agency for Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving 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 i f 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):  Electrical 
mains -operated welding equipment using one or more of the following welding and allied 
processes: manual metal arc welding; gas -shielded metal arc welding; self -shielded flux -
cored welding; flux cored arc welding; me tal active gas and metal inert gas welding; 
tungsten inert gas welding; plasma arc cutting  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  draft Resolution 
of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine "On Approval of the Technical Regulation  on 
Ecodesign Requirements for Welding Equipment"; (20 page(s), in Ukrainian)  
6. Description of content:  the draft Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine "On 
Approval of the Technical Regulation on Ecodesign Requirements for Welding Equipment" 
provides for the approval of the Technical Regulation in order to ensure the improvement 
of energy and environmental characteristics of welding equipment.  
This Technical Regulation establishes ecodesign requirements for electrical mains -
operated welding eq uipment to be placed on the market and/or put into service.  
The Technical Regulation addresses all environmental impacts throughout the entire life 
cycle of welding equipment from concept, design, production, use and disposal, which will 
allow the products  that have the greatest negative impact on the environment to be 
gradually removed from the market.  
The Technical Regulation corresponds to Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/1784 of 01 
October 2019 laying down ecodesign requirements for welding equipment pur suant to 
Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Protection of human health or safety; 
Protection of the environment; Harmonization  G/TBT/N/UKR/278  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
Law of Ukraine "On Technical Regulations and Conformity Assessment"  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Six months from the date of termination or 
cancellation of martial law in Ukraine, but not earlier than the day 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:   
Ministry of Economy of Ukraine  
Department for Trade Agreements and Export Development  
12/2 Hrushevskoho Str.  
Tel: +(38 044) 596 6839  
Fax: +(38 044) 596 683 9 
Email: ep@me.gov.ua  
Website: https://www.me.gov.ua  
https://saee.gov.ua/uk/activity/normotvorcha -diyalnist  (draft Resolution of the Cabinet 
of Ministers of Ukraine "On Approval of the Technical  Regulation on Ecodesign 
Requirements for Welding Equipment" as of 30 November 2023)  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/UKR/23_14645_00_x.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/UKR/23_14645_01_x.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/UKR/23_14645_02_x.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/UKR/23_14645_03_x.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/UKR/23_14645_04_x.pdf  
https://member s.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/UKR/23_14645_05_x.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/UKR/23_14645_06_x.pd f 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/UKR/23_14645_07_x.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/UKR/23_14645_08_x.pdf