G/TBT/2/Add.100/Rev.3  
 
8 April 2013  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
IMPLEMENTATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE AGREEMENT  
ON TECHNICAL BARRIERS TO TRADE 
 
COMMUNICATION FROM UKRAINE 
 
Revision 
 The following statement under Article 15.2 of the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade 
has been received from th e delegation of Ukraine. 
 
 
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1  CHANGES TO THE INFORMATION PROVID ED BY UKRAINE UNDER ARTICLE 15.2 OF 
THE AGREEMENT ON TECHNICAL BARRIERS TO TRADE  
1.1.  The present document contains the revised information concerning some amendments to 
legal acts, governing technical regulation, conformity assessment and certification, and also 
provides updated information on transparency issues.  
2  RELEVANT LAWS AND REGULATIONS 2.1  Amendments to some Normative Acts Go verning Standards, Technical Regulations 
and Conformity Assessment in Ukraine 
2.1.  In October 2012 there has been adopted the Law of Ukraine "On Amending Certain Laws of 
Ukraine to Cancel Registration of the Declaration of conformity"  (of 2 October 2012 No. 5312). The 
mentioned Law is developed to implement paragraph 300 of the Report of the Working Party on 
the accession of Ukraine to the WTO (document WT/ACC/UKR/152 of 25 January 2008), in part, 
where Ukraine committed to resort to the widest possible recognition of declarations without requiring manufacturer registration or confirmation to Ukrainian authorities on relevant technical 
regulations. The main objective of the law is to prevent undue additional time and cost producers-
entities to register declarations when entering products into the market (http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/5312-17 ; http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2406-14 ) 
2.2.  In February 2013 the revised draft Law "On metrology and metrology activity",  was proposed 
for consideration, aimed at separation of the regulatory, supervisory (control) and economic functions in the field of metrology as well as full harmonization of the national legal acts in the field of metrology with the International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML) documents, with 
EU legislation acts on metrology and with the documents of the European Cooperation of Legal 
Metrology (WELMEC) documents, notified under G/TBT/N/UKR/90 of 22 March 2013 (http://www.me.gov.ua/file/lin k/196253/file/PZU-Metr.doc ). 
2.3.  In March 2013, the revised  draft Law of Ukraine " On standardization",  was proposed for 
consideration, aimed at improving the legal and institutional framework of national standardization, creation of organizational form s of activity in the field of standardization, 
harmonized with international standards and abolition of compulsory application of standards, 
notified as a revision to G/TBT/N/UKR/85 of 23 October 2012 (http://me.kmu.gov.ua/file/link/199534/file/pr_ZU_Standart.doc ). G/TBT/2/Add.100/Rev.3 
 
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  2.4.  Since March 2012 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has adopted six resolutions, approving 
some technical regulations and rules. Adoption of all of the following resolutions is meant to bring further Ukrainian legislation into compliance with European legislation . 
a. Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministri es of Ukraine of 10 May 2012 No.368 "On 
Amendments to the Resolution of the Cabine t of Ministries of Ukraine of 3 September 
2008 No.787" (approval of the Technical Regulations "On Maximally Settled Consumption of Electric Power by the Devices of Refrig eration", notified under G/TBT/N/UKR/7/Add.2 
of 30 May 2012 http://zakon1.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/368-2012-%D0%BF ); 
b. Resolution of the Cabinet of Minister s of Ukraine of 6 June 2012 No.499 "On 
Amendments to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministries of Ukraine of 20 August 2008 
No. 717" (Technical Regulations on Detergents, notified under G/TBT/N/UKR/4/Add.2 of  
3 December 2012 http://zakon0.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/499-2012-%D0%BF ); 
c. Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 18 June 2012 No.708 "On Approval 
of the Drafting Technical Regulations Developed on the Basis of Legislative Acts of the 
European Union and Approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine" 
(http://zakon4.rada .gov.ua/laws/show/708-2012-%D0%BF ); 
d. Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministri es of Ukraine of 20 June 2012 No.631 "On 
Amendments to the Resolution of the Cabine t of Ministries of Ukraine of 29 July 2009, 
No.785" (new version of the Technical Regulation "On electromagnetic compatibility", notified under G/TBT/N/UKR/22/Add.1 of 24 January 2012 http://zakon3.rada .gov.ua/laws/show/631-2012-%D0%BF ); 
e. Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministries of Ukraine of 29 August 2012, No. 810 "On 
amendments to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministries of Ukraine of 29 October 2009 
No. 1149", (new version of the Technical regulation "On safety of low voltage electrical 
equipment", notified under G/TBT/N/UKR/81 of 10 July 2012 
http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/810-2012-%D0%BF ); 
f. Resolution of the Cabinet of Minister s of Ukraine of 30 January 2013 No.708 "On 
Approval of the Technical Regulation on Safety of Machinery", new version of the 
"Technical Regulation on Safety of Machinery and Mechanisms", notified under G/TBT/N/UKR/24 of 17 June 2009 (" http://zakon3.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/62-2013-
%D0%BF "). 
2.5.  The Order of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine of 28 May 2012 
No.639 "On Amendments to the Order of the State Committee for Technical Regulation and 
Consumer Policy of 28 October 2010 No.487 (ame ndments to the "Technical Regulation on the 
Rules Relating to the Labelling of Foodstuff" , notified under G/TBT/N/UKR/52/Add.3 of 10 May 
2012 http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z0183-11 ). 
2.6.  The Order of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine of 29 December 
2012 No.1526 "On Approval of the Amendments to the List of Products which are subject to 
Compulsory Certification in Ukraine" provides for further exclusion of a number of products from the list of products which are subject to compulsory certification in Ukraine (initially the list was approved by the Order of the State Committee for Technical Regulation and Consumer Policy of 1 
February 2005 N
o. 28) http://zakon3.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z0085-13 . 
2.7.  The detailed information (in Ukrainian), as to the list of products, which are subject to 
mandatory certification as of 15 March 2013, is defined by the abovementioned order of the State 
Committee for Technical Regulation and Consumer Policy of 1 February 2005 No.28 with 
amendments and may be found at the following offici al Internet site of Verhovna Rada of Ukraine: 
http://zakon3.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z0466-05 . 
 
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  3  TRANSPARENCY 
3.1  ENQUIRY POINT AND NOTIFYING AUTHORITY 3.1.  The WTO Enquiry Point and Notifying Authority of Ukraine can be contacted at: 
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine 
12/2 Grushevskogo str. 
Kyiv, 01008 Ukraine, Telephone: +(38 044) 596 6839, (38 044) 281 95-34  
Telefax: +(38 044) 281-95-34 
E-mail: ep@me.gov.ua  
 
3.2  NATIONAL AUTHORITIES AND AGENCIES 
3.2.  According to the Decree of the Presid ent of Ukraine of 31 May 2011 No.634/2011, the 
functions of Derzhspozhyvstandart in the area of forming and realization of the national policy on 
technical regulation (standardization, metrology, certification, conformity assessment and quality control) are conveyed to the Ministry of Econ omic Development and Trade. The Department of 
Technical Regulation within the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade develops and 
implements the policy of Ukraine in these areas. 
3.3.  The ISONET can be contacted at: 
Information Centre of the International Information Network 
174, Gorkiy Street, GSP 03680 Kyiv-150, Ukraine Tel.: +(380) 44 528 92 73 
Fax:+(380) 44 528 54 02 
Email: dstu@dssu.gov.ua  
 
 
 
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