. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/UKR/58 
7 June 2011  
 (11-2807) 
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 Economic Development and Trade 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 :    
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 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):  Goods covered by 
technical regulations 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Law of Ukraine 
"On amending some laws of Ukraine concerning the abolition of registration of the producer's 
declaration of conformity" (1 page, in Ukrainian). 
6. Description of content:  Draft Law amends the laws of Uk raine concerning the exclusion of 
provisions for mandatory registration of the de claration of conformity and requirement for 
indication of the declaration of conformity 's registration numbers in the supporting 
documents.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Objectives to be achieved with adoption of the Draft Law, are:  
1.  Transition to new principles of national producers state support under the WTO rules and 
familiarization to the world pr actice of declaration procedures  which create the grounds for 
production of competitive commodities; 
2.  Elimination of unreasonable producers time and money spending on registration of 
declarations from entering th e product into circulation; 
3.  Removal of unjustified obs tacles for further internationa l trade development and increase 
of commodity circulation w ith major trade partners; 
4. Adaptation of Ukraine legislation to the international rules and regulations.  G/TBT/N/UKR/58 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Law of Ukraine from 18.03.2004¹ 1629-IV "On State Program of 
Adaptation of Ukraine's legislation to legisla tion of European Union"; Law of Ukraine from 
10.04.2008 No. 250-IV "On Ratification of the Prot ocol on Ukraine's Accession to the WTO", 
Law of Ukraine "On Conformity Assessment", Law of Ukraine "On Standards, Technical Regulations and Conformity Assessment Procedures " and Law of Ukraine "On Consumer 
Protection" (in Ukrainian).   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:     3rd quarter 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from the date of ci rculation of the 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:    
WTO National Enquiry Point & Information Processing Centre 
04655, Kyiv, Lvivska Square, 8 
Tel.:  272 1578, Fax 272 1147  E-mail:  ep@me.gov.ua  / kucherenko@me.gov.ua  
Internet address where the text is available: 
http://www.me.gov.ua/control/uk/publis h/article?art_id =165903&cat_id=32862  
(in Ukrainian)