G/SPS/N/UKR/179  
 
5 August 2022  
(22-5855) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member:  UKRAINE  
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable):  Agricultural products of plant origin  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable : 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:   
5. Title of the notified document:  Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 
22 July 2022 No. 818 "On Amendments to the Procedure of inspection, survey, 
phytosanitary examination, repeated phytosani tary (arbitration) examination (analyses), 
supervision, examination, monitoring, disinfection of regulated objects, issuance of 
certificates in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On Plant Quarantine", control of 
inspections in terms of sampling and select ive control over the conduct of phytosanitary 
examination" . Language(s):  Ukrainian . Number of pages:  4 
https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/818 -2022-%D0%BF#Text  
6. Description of content:  Resolution is developed to implement the Law of Ukraine of 
12 May 2022 No. 2246 "On amendments to some laws of Ukraine on uninterrupted 
production and supply of agricultural products during martial law" in order to improve 
phytosanitary measures for movement of agricultural products of plant origin through the 
territory of Ukraine and for the export of these products.  
The Resolution provides for bringing the existing procedures in accordance with the 
requirements of the aforementioned law in terms of:  
1) issuance of quarantine certificate as to decrease of cases when suc h certificate is 
obligatory for movement of agricultural products of plant origin and seeds through the 
territory of Ukraine. In particular, the requirement to obtain a quarantine certificate for 
the movement of cargo with imported seeds was abolished; a q uarantine certificate is 
obligatory only for the export of plant products from the quarantine zone and provided 
that such products may spread a quarantine organism subject to quarantine regime;  
2) simplification of the procedure of reissuing phytosanitary cer tificates required for 
export of agricultural products of plant origin, namely:  
for the reissuance of these certificates, the conclusion of phytosanitary examination 
(analyses) is not always required, but only if the country of destination of the cargo 
changes, provided that the phytosanitary measures of such country require the 
absence of pests for which phytosanitary examination (analyses) has not been 
conducted;  
3) issuance of phytosanitary certificate and phytosanitary certificate for re -export in 
electron ic form, and not exclusively in paper form, as it is today.  G/SPS/N/UKR/179  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale: [  ] food safety, [  ] animal health, [X]  plant protection, 
[X] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.   
8. Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) :  
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g.  Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) :  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g.  ISPM number) :  
[X] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[ ] Yes   [  ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:   
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:   
− Law of Ukraine of 12 May 2022 No 2246 "On amendments to some laws of Ukraine on 
uninterrupted production and supply of agricultura l products during martial law", 
notified by document G/SPS/N/UKR/174  
− Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine "On some issues of implementation of 
the Law of Ukraine "On Plant Quarantine" of 15 November 2019 No. 1177, notified by 
documents G/SPS/N /UKR/136, G/SPS/N/UKR/136/Add.1  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 22 July 2022  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : 26 July 2022  
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [  ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) : 26 July 2022 
[X] Trade facilitating measure  Resolution simplifies certain procedures for obtaining 
quarantine and phytosanitary certificates.  
12. Final date for comments: [  ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : Not appli cable 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X]  National Notification 
Authority, [X]  National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if 
available) of other body:   
13. Text(s) available from: [X]  National Notification Authority, [X]  National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body: