G/TBT/N/UKR/93  
 
30 August 2013  
(13-4598)  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 Health 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 :   
Ministry of Health of Ukraine 
Grushevskogo str., 7 
01601, Kyiv, Ukraine Tel: +(3 8044) 253 72 90 E-mail: moz@moz.gov.ua  
Website: http://www.moz.gov.ua  
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):  Children's 
food products 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document:  The draft Order 
of the Ministry of health of Ukraine "On appr oval of Hygienic requirements for children 
foods, safety parameters and certain quality indicators" (56 pages, in Ukrainian). 
6. Description of content:  Draft order sets hygienic requirements for primary and infant 
formula feeding and required composition, for children foods based on cereals and other children food, as well as requirements for labelling and advertising of these products. 
The project establishes a list of pesticides prohibited for use in the primary production 
and maximum residue levels of pesticides or their metabolites. 
The draft sets the requirements for processed foods based on cereals for infants and 
other types of children food. It establishes chemical names of substances that are 
allowed to be added to individual types of ch ildren food, as well as the reference value to 
indicate the nutritional value for other types of children food. 
This Draft has been notified to the WTO Secretariat under the Agreement on SPS 
measures. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Adapting Ukraine's legislation to that of the European Union where it relates 
to the children food safety. 
8. Relevant documents:    
 Commission Directive 2006/141/EC of 22 December 2006 On infant formulae 
and follow-on formulae and amending Directive 1999/21/EC.   
 Directive 2009/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of G/TBT/N/UKR/93 
 
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  6 May 2009 on foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses. 
 International Code of Marketing of Breast milk Substitutes. 
 The laws of Ukraine "On children's nutrition", "On safety and quality of food 
products" (available in Ukrainian). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    Last quarter of 2013 Two years after its official publications 
10. Final date for comments:  16 September 2013 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresse s, if available of the other body:    
Division for Enquiries, Notifica tion and Information Processing 
Department for WTO Cooperation and Trade Remedies Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine 
04655, Kyiv, Hrushevskogo str., 12/2 
Tel. (+38044) 596-68-39 Fax (+38044) 281-95-34 
e-mail: ep@me.gov.ua  
Website where the text is available: 
http://www.moz.gov.ua/ua/ portal/dn_20130716_0.html  (Ukrainian version)