. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/UKR/12 
17 December 2008  
 (08-6201) 
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:  State Committee on Nuclea r Regulation of Ukraine 
(Derzhatomreguliuvannia), Stat e Committee on Technical Regul ation and Consumer Policy 
(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):   Containers for storing and/or burying radioactive waste generated as a result of civil activities, 
namely: - containers for hard and liquid radioactive waste for storage (in packages of radioactive waste) in appropria te repositories; 
- collector containers for radioactive substances; 
- containers for hard radioactive waste that are subject to burying (in packages of radioactive waste) in surface, near-surface or geological repositories in accordance with criteria of permissibility (non-permissibility ) of their burying in repositories  of different types pursuant 
to the Rules of Nuclear Safety of Ukraine. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  “Technical Regulations 
on Containers for Storing and Burying Radioa ctive Waste and Plan of Measures for Its 
Application” approved by Decr ee of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 18 July 2007 
No. 939, Kyiv (16 pages).     
6. Description of content:  These Technical Regulations determine general technical 
requirements to containe rs for storing and/or burying radioactive waste generated as a result 
of civil activities, the procedure for assessing conformity of such containers to technical 
requirements, observing which is obligatory in case containers are put to use as well as 
requirements to their packaging and marking.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Adapting Ukraine’s legislation to that of the European Union on safe use of containers for 
storing and/or burying radioactiv e waste generated as a result of civil activities, to normative 
acts of EU Member-States.  G/TBT/N/UKR/12 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Laws of Ukraine “On Confor mity Assessment” (2406-14), “On 
Standardization,” (2408-14), “On Accrediting Conformity Assessmen t Bodies” (2407-14), 
“On Standards, Technical Regu lations and Conformity Asse ssment Procedures” (3164-15), 
“On Using Nuclear Energy and Radiation Safe ty,” “On Treating Radioactive Waste,” “On 
Permit Activity in the Field of Using Nucl ear Energy,” “On Prot ecting People Against 
Ionizing Radiation,” Decrees of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 1 March 2006 No. 240 
“On Approving Rules for Assessing Suitability of  New Construction Articles for Use,” of 
24 January 2007,  No. 59 “On Approving the Proc edure for Designating Bodies for Assessing 
Conformity of Products, Processes and Servic es to Requirements of Technical Regulations” 
of 29 November 2001, No. 1599 “On Approving th e 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 T echnical Regulations” (in Ukrainian).   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:      - 
  2012 
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