. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/UKR/10 
17 December 2008  
 (08-6199) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  UKRAINE
  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Industrial Policy of  Ukraine (MIP), State Committee on 
Technical Regulation and Consumer Polic y (Derzhspozhivstandart of Ukraine) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and web-site 
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 [   ], 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):  Toys – products (toy 
materials) intended for playing by children up to 14 years of age. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  “Technical Regulations 
on the Safety of Toys” approved by Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 
8 October 2008, No. 901, Kyiv (10 pages).    
6. Description of content:  These Technical Regulatio ns establish re quirements to the safety of 
toys, the procedure for assessing their conformi ty to such requirements, establish rules for 
marking and introducing into circulation, toys both imported and domestically produced, their 
sale and free-of-charge distribution.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Adapting Ukraine’s legislation to that of the Eu ropean Union where it relates to the safety of 
toys,  assessing conformity of products to normative acts of EU Member-States.  
8. Relevant documents:   The said Technical Regulations comply with Council Directive 
88/378/EEC of 3 May 1988 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States 
concerning the safety of toys (in English); Laws of Ukraine “On C onformity Assessment” 
(2406-14), “On Standardization,” (2408-14), “On Accrediting Conf ormity Assessment 
Bodies” (2407-14), “On Standards, Technica l Regulations and Conformity Assessment 
Procedures” (3164-15), Decrees of  the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 24 January 2007,  
No. 59 “On Approving the Procedure for Design ating Bodies for Assessing Conformity of 
Products, Processes and Services to Requ irements of Technical Regulations” of 
29 November 2001, No. 1599 “On Approving the Description and Rules of Applying the National Conformity Mark” of 7 October 2003, No. 1585 “On Approving Technical Regulations on Conformity Asse ssment Modules and Requiremen ts to Applying the National 
Conformity Mark that are Used in Technical Regulations” (in Ukrainian). G/TBT/N/UKR/10 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:      - 
  8 April 2009 
10. Final date for comments:  - 
11. Text available from: National enquiry po int [ X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
WTO Enquiry Point and Inform ation Processing Centre:  
MSP 04655, city of Kyiv, 8 Lvivska Sq. Tel. 272 1578, Fax 272 1147 
Email: ep@mfert.gov.ua 
Website where the text is available: http://portal.rada.gov.ua