. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/UKR/36 
18 June 2009  
 (09-2988) 
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:  The State Committee for industrial safety, safety at work and mining 
inspection, 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 :  WTO National 
Enquiry Point and Information Processing Cent re: Ukraine, MSP 04655, city of Kyiv, 8 
Lvivska Sq., Tel. (38044) 272-15-78, Fax ( 38044) 272-11-47, E-mail: ep@mfert.gov.ua   
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):  Simple vessels working 
under pressure, namely:  
- Working under the pressure of air or nitrogen without heating, the internal excess pressure 
of which is between 0.005 MPa to 3 MPa inclusive; 
- The minimum temperature during operation is below minus 50 ° C and a maximum - not 
above plus 300 ° C for steel vessels and plus  100 ° C for vessels made of aluminium;  
- Product of the maximum pressure on the amount (Rs * V), which is less than or equal to 5 
MPa * l, but not exceeding 1000 MPa * l. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  “Technical regulation 
on safety of simple vessels working under high pressure”, approved by the Decree # 268 of 
Cabinet of Ministers of Uk raine as of 23 March 2009 (14 pages,  in Ukrainian).  
6. Description of content:  This technical regulation define s the basic requirements for the 
design, batch production and conf ormity assessment procedures for simple pressure vessels, 
working under excessive pressure, sets the rule s of marking, of operation and maintenance.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to the EU le gislation on safety of si mple pressure vessels  
8. Relevant documents:   The Technical regulation complies with the Directive of European 
Council of the European Union 87404/EE C as of 25 June 1987 (in English). 
The Decree # 268 of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine as of  23 March 2009 can be found in 
Ukrainian at: http://zakon1.rada.gov.ua/cgi-bin /laws/main.cgi?nreg=268-2009-%EF  G/TBT/N/UKR/36 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:      - 
  2010 
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 National Enquiry Point and Information Processing Centre: Ukraine, MSP 04655, city 
of Kyiv, 8 Lvivska Sq., Tel. (38044) 272 1578, Fax (38044) 272 1147  E-mail: ep@mfert.gov.ua   
Website where the text is available: http://zakon1.rada.gov.ua/cgi-
bin/laws/main.cgi?nreg=268-2009-%EF  (Ukrainian version)