. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/UKR/7 
17 December 2008  
 (08-6196) 
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 Technical Regulation 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):  Wall-plugged household 
electric refrigerators, freezers and freezers and combinations thereof.. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  “Technical Regulations 
on Maximally Settled Consumption of Electri c Power by the Devices of Refrigeration” 
approved by Decree No. 787 of  3 September 2008, of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, 
Kyiv (11 pages).     
6. Description of content:  These Technical Regulations esta blish unified requirements to 
power efficiency of household el ectric refrigerators , freezers and combinations thereof, 
unified methods of determinin g the maximum allowed consumption of electric power by 
refrigerating equipment, contro l measures, the conformity as sessment procedure, rules for 
marking and introducing pr oducts into circulation.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Adapting Ukraine’s legislation to that of th e European Union where it relates to maximum 
allowed consumption of electric  power by refrigerating equipm ent, assessing conformity of 
products to normative acts  of EU Member-States.  
8. Relevant documents:   The said Technical Regulations comply with Directive 96/57/EC of 
the European Parliament and of the Counc il of 3 September 1996 on energy efficiency 
requirements for household electric refrigerato rs, freezers and comb inations thereof (in 
English); Laws of Ukraine “On Conformity Assessment” (2406-14), “O n Standardization,” 
(2408-14), “On Accrediting Conformity Asse ssment Bodies” (2407-14), “On Standards, 
Technical Regulations and Conformity Asse ssment Procedures” (3164-15), Decrees of the 
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 24 Janua ry 2007,  No. 59 “On Approving the Procedure 
for Designating Bodies for Assessing Conformi ty of Products, Processes and Services to 
Requirements of Technical Regulations” of  29 November 2001, No. 1599 “On Approving the G/TBT/N/UKR/7 
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  Description and Rules of Applying the Natio nal Conformity Mark” of 7 October 2003, 
No. 1585 “On Approving Technical Regulations  on Conformity Assessment Modules and 
Requirements to Applying the National Confor mity Mark that are Used in Technical 
Regulations” (in Ukrainian). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:      - 
  3 March 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 E-mail: ep@mfert.gov.ua Website where the text is available: http://portal.rada.gov.ua