. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/UKR/84 
29 August 2012  
 (12-4660) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  UKRAINE  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Health 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 :   
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine 
01008, Kyiv, 12/2 M. Hrushevskoho str., Tel./Fax:  +38044 281 95 34 Email:  ep@me.gov.ua  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Foods  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Law of Ukraine 
"On food information to consumers" (57 pages in Ukrainian)     
6. Description of content:  The Draft specifies general princi ples of food information to 
consumers (principles which re gulate mandatory food informatio n), general requirements for 
food information and market operators' res ponsibilities. It determines mandatory food 
information and specifies the list of the types of mandatory information, additional mandatory 
information for certain categories of food, the presence and placement of the mandatory 
information, indication of mandatory informa tion, language of information, exceptions to 
provisions concerning mandator y information and others.  
The draft also has detailed pr ovisions on mandatory information in particular: the name of 
food, the list of ingredients, indication of so me substances or products  that cause allergic 
reactions or intolerance of th e organism, quantitative indicati on of ingredients, net weight, 
date of minimum expiry, date "Best before" and da te of freeze, storage, country of origin or 
place of origin, recommendations on use, content of alcohol etc. 
The document establishes requirements for the nut ritional value of foods  and requirements for 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
The goal of the draft is to harm onize the national legislation with  EU standards, in particular 
compliance with the requirements of the Re gulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European 
Parliament and of the Council of 25 Octobe r 2011 on the provision of food information to 
consumers.  
8. Relevant documents:    
- Constitution of Ukraine, Law "On the sa fety and quality of foodstuff," "Consumer 
 protection", Technical regula tion "On the rules of foods' labelling" (in Ukrainian); 
- Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the Eur opean Parliament and of the Council of 
 25 October 2011 on the provision of food information to consumers (in English). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    2012 
1 January 2015   
10. Final date for comments:  60  days from the date of circulation 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine 
01008, Kyiv, 12/2 M. Hrushevskoho str., Tel./Fax: +38044 281 05 34 Email:  ep@me.gov.ua  
Internet address where the text is available: 
http://www.moz.gov.ua/ua/portal/P ro_20120730_0.html#2 (in Ukrainian)