G/TBT/N/UKR/95  
 
14 January 2014  
(14-0152)  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:  Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine 
Name and address (including telephon e 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 :    
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [ X ], 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): All 
products. 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:  Draft Law of 
Ukraine "On Technical Regulations and Conformity Assessment" (55 pages, in Ukrainian 
language).     
6. Description of content:  The Draft Law defines the legal and organizational framework 
for the development, adoption and application of technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures and the assessment of conformity  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Draft Law of Ukraine "On Technical Regulations and Conformity Assessment" 
provides: 
- establishing of legal and organizational framework for the development, adoption 
and application of technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures in 
accordance with international and European standards, in particular regarding: 
a. adaptation of national legislation on technical regulations and conformity 
 assessment to the EU legislation; 
b. development of technical regulations th at are based on the guidelines of the 
EU New and Global Approach requirements that meet the requirements for 
the development of similar acts of the European Union; 
c. defining in compliance with the EU legislation on the notification of 
conformity assessment bodies based on a differentiated approach to 
establish such requirements in the relevant directives of the European Union requirements to be met by conf ormity assessment bodies, and the 
procedure for their appointment; 
d. defining determine the final date for cancellation of mandatory product 
certification and simultaneous implementation of conformity assessment of certain goods subject to mandatory certification requirements of technical 
regulations; 
- to declare as invalid the Laws of Ukraine "On conformity assessment" and "On G/TBT/N/UKR/95 
 
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  Standards, Technical Regulations and Conformity Assessment Procedures"; 
- to determine the final date of the abolition of compulsory product certification 
according to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Decree of 10 May 1993 No. 46-93 
"On Standardization and Certification". 
8. Relevant documents:   Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offences, the Law of Ukraine 
"On accreditation of conformity assessment bodies" (Bulletin of the Verkhovna Rada of 
Ukraine, 2001, No. 32), the Law of Ukraine "On drinking water and drinking water" (Bulletin of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukrain e, 2002, No. 16, p. 112), the Law of Ukraine 
"On fish, other aquatic living resources and food products from them" (Bulletin of the 
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 2003, No. 15,  as amended by the Law of Ukraine on 
October 16, 2012 No. 5462-VI), Law of Ukraine "On the Principles of Regulatory Policy in Economic Activity" (Bulletin of the Verkho vna of Ukraine, 2004, No. 9), the Law of 
Ukraine "On State Market Supervision and control of non-food products" (Bulletin of the 
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 2011, No. 21, as amended by laws of Ukraine on 16 October 2012 No 5463-VI and on July 4, 2013 No. 406-VII), the Law of Ukraine "On General 
Safety of Non-Food Products" (Bulletin of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 2011, No. 22), 
Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 10 May 1993 No. 46-93 "Standardization and Certification" (Bulletin of the Ve rkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 1993, No. 27). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    2015 2015 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification. 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   Website 
where the text is available (in Ukrainian): 
http://www.me.gov.ua/ file/link/2 23625/file/Zakon%20(2).doc