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ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/UKR/59 
16 September 2011  
 (11-4464) 
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:  The State Committee for Technical Regulation and Consumer Policy 
(DSSU) 
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 [X], 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):  Basic requirement for the 
conduction of conformity assessment procedure and modules - unified sy stems of conformity 
assessment procedures which are used for the performance of conformity assessment procedures according to th e Technical Regulations. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Resolution of the 
Cabinet of Ministries of Ukraine N° 920 of 31 August 2011 "On amendments of the 
Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministries of Ukraine N° 1585 of 7 October 2003 "Technical 
Regulation on conformity assessment modules"( 26 pages, in Ukrainian).  
6. Description of content:  The proposed Technical Regulation establishes that for conduction 
of conformity assessment pr ocedures, required by the relevant technical regulation, 
conformity assessment modules s hould be selected in accordance  with the requirements of 
paragraph 5 of this Technica l Regulation which determines the principles of modules 
application.  
- Above mentioned document sets that modules  A,  A1,A2, B, C, C1, C2, D, D1, E, 
 E1, F, F1, G, H, H1 should be used for the conformity assessment procedure. 
- Module B is used for the part of conform ity assessment proced ure - verification of 
 the type and is applied at the design stage. The specified module is used in  conjunction with modules C, C1, C2, D, E,  F, which ensure conformity assessment at 
 the manufacturing stage. 
Paragraph 8 of the Technical Re gulation determines that "Labelling of the national mark of 
conformity is carried out by th e producer or on his behalf by th e authorized representative - a 
resident of Ukraine, who is authorized by th e producer on the contractual basis for conducting 
a certain activity in the conform ity assessment procedure of products, after positive results of G/TBT/N/UKR/59 
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  production control before putting the product into circulation. It is provided by the Technical 
regulations that in case of need, the labelling is carried out by a person responsible for putting 
the product into circulation". 
Technical Regulation also stipul ates procedure for conformity assessment for each Module.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to the EU le gislation regarding the id entity of conformity 
assessment procedures.  
Meeting the requirements of Ar ticle 25 of the Law of Ukra ine "On standards, technical 
regulations and conformity asse ssment procedures" to review in  five years adopted technical 
regulations of conformity a ssessment modules and requirements for the national mark of 
conformity. 
Technical Regulation also introduces one of th e acts of the EU legislation in Ukraine –
Decision No 768/2008/EC of the European Parlia ment and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on a 
common framework for the marketing of pr oducts, and repealing Council Decision 
93/465/EEC. 
8. Relevant documents:    
- Decision No 768/2008/EC of the European  Parliament and of the Council of 
 9 July 2008 on a common framework for the marketing of products, and repealing  Council Decision 93/465/EEC (in English) 
- Laws of Ukraine "On conformity assessm ent" (2406-14), "On standards, technical 
 regulations and conformity  assessment procedures" (3164- 15), "On standardization" 
 (2408-14) (in Ukrainian) 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    31 August 2011 
9 September 2011 
10. Final date for comments:  - 
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:    
WTO National Enquiry Point & Information Processing Centre 
04655, Kyiv, Lvivska Square, 8 Tel.:  272 1147, Fax 272 1578 E-mail:  ep@me.gov.ua  
Internet address where the text is available: 
http://zakon1.rada.gov.ua/cgi-bin /laws/main.cgi?nreg=920-2011-%EF  (in Ukrainian)