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ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/UKR/78 
1 June 2012  
 (12-2884) 
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 Agrarian Policy and Food 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 
12/2 M. Hrushevskoho str., Kyiv, 01008  Tel./Fax:  +38044 596 68 39 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):  Foodstuffs 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Law of Ukraine 
"On Amending certain Laws of Ukraine on information of public on the content in foodstuff 
genetically modified or ganisms", (1 page in Ukrainian).      
6. Description of content:  The draft amends article 36 and 38  of the Law of Ukraine "On the 
safety and quality of foodstuff"  and article 15 of the Law of  Ukraine "On consumer rights 
protection".  
It establishes obligatory GMO labelling fo r foodstuff containing re gistered GMOs or 
ingredients produced from regist ered GMOs if GMOs share exceeds 0.9%. The draft cancels 
obligatory GMO-free labelling. The proposed doc ument also prohibits the circulation of 
foodstuff produced using GMOs prio r to their stat e registration. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The 
draft is aimed at preventing businesses from unnecessary costs on examination of GMOs 
presence in the foodstuff that  is not related to genetic en gineering and harmonization of 
Ukrainian legislation with the EC standards on the labelling of GMOs.  
8. Relevant documents:   Regulation (EC)) No 1830/2003 of the European Parliament and of 
the Council of 22 September 2003 concerning the traceability and labelling of genetically 
modified organisms and the tra ceability of food and feed products produced from genetically 
modified organisms and am ending Directive 2001/18/EC G/TBT/N/UKR/78 
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  Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European  Parliament and of the Council of 
22 September 2003 on genetically  modified food and feed 
Laws of Ukraine "On the safety and quality  of foodstuff" and "On consumer rights 
protection" (Ukrai nian language) 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    - 
10. Final date for comments:  5 July 2012 
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 
12/2 M. Hrushevskoho str., Kyiv, 01008 Tel./Fax:  +38044 596 68 39 
Email:  ep@me.gov.ua  (in Ukrainian) 
Internet address where the text is available: 
http://www.minagro.kiev.ua/page/?13303  (in Ukrainian)