G/SPS/N/UKR/103
12 February 2015
(15-0876)  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: State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item  number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; IC S numbers should be provided in 
addition, where applicable): Coffee; cereals; wheat flour and flour from other 
cereals; peeled grains; grain; malt; soybeans; peanuts; copra; flax seeds; rape seeds; sunflower seeds; oil seeds; hop cones; lupulin; plants, plant parts, seeds and fruit used 
primarily in perfumery, medicine or to control insects, parasites; carob fruits, marine 
and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, stones, fruit kernels and other products of vegetable origin; straw and chaff cereals, turnip cabbage, hay, alfalfa, clover and other 
crops; siftings (UKTZED) HS Codes: 0901 11 00, 0901 12 00 00, 1001, 1002 00 00 00, 
1003 00, 1004 00 00 00, 1005, 1006, 1007 00, 1008, 1101 00, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1201 00, 1202, 1203 00 00 00, 1204 00, 1205 00, 1206 00, 1207, 1208, 1210, 1211, 1212, 1213 00 00 00, 1214, 1404, 2302, 2308 
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: Draft Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine 
on "Some issues of deregulation of economic activity"  Language(s): Ukrainian  
Number of pages: 13 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2015/SPS/UKR/15_0744_00_x.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2015/SPS/UKR/15_0744_01_x.pdf  
6. Description of content: Paragraph 2 of subparagraph 3 of the Draft Resolution amends 
the list of objects of the regulation in part, where it concerns plant quarantine approved 
by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Mini sters of Ukraine as of 12 May 2007 no. 705 "On 
some issues of implementation of the Law of Ukraine on quarantine of plants". According 
to the proposed amendments, the regulate d objects, exported from the customs 
territory of Ukraine, exported and/or imported into the quarantine zone are not 
considered to be under control in Ukraine. 
7. Objective and rationale: [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [X] plant protection, 
[X] protect humans from animal/plant pe st or disease, [X] protect territory 
from other damage from pests.   
8. Is there a relevant international stan dard? 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)    G/SPS/N/UKR/103 
 
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  [X] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)  
Subparagraphs 1.2.2., 1.2.3, 2.3.2, 2.3.4 of ISPM 4 "Requirements for the establishment of pest free areas"; subparagraph 4.5 ISPM 7 "Export certification 
system"; subparagraph 3.2.2 ISPM 9 "Guidelines for pest eradication 
programmes"  
[ ] None 
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
[X] 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:     
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 28 January 2015 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) : From the date of publication. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 13 April 2015 
Agency or authority designated to hand le comments: [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address 
(if available) of other body:  
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine 
01008, Kyiv, 12/2 M. Hrushevskoho str. 
Tel/Fax: +(380 44) 596 6839 E-mail: ep@me.gov.ua 
13. Text(s) available from: [X] National Notifi cation Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:   
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine  
01008, Kyiv, 12/2 M. Hrushevskoho str. Tel/Fax: +(380 44) 596 6839 E-mail: ep@me.gov.ua