WORLD TRADE  
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G/SPS/N/UKR/80 
13 July 2012 
 (12-3782) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  UKRAINE 
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, State Veterinary 
and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Foodstuffs 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:    
5. Title of the notified document:  Draft Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to Some Laws of 
Ukraine on Food Safety"  Language(s):  Ukrainian  Number of pages:  99 
6. Description of content:  The main purpose of the Draft Law is to establish the transparent 
mechanism for ensuring food products safety and quality through the delegation of functions to the single state control authority in the field of food safety and quality "from 
farm to fork" according to the requirements of EU legislation. 
To insure the functioning of the transpar ency mechanism in food safety issues, the 
proposed Draft Laws foresees the relevant amendm ents to some legislative acts  of Ukraine, 
among which are: 
− the Laws of Ukraine "On food safety and quality", "On children's nutrition", "On 
consumers protection", "On excluding from circulation, processing, disposal, 
annihilation or continued use of bad quality and dangerous products", "On the 
veterinary medicine", "On sanitary and epidemic welfare of population"; 
− the Decree of the Cabinet of Minister s of Ukraine "On standardisation and 
certification". 
The mentioned Draft Law sets the requirements to: 
− the procedures of state control and supervision; 
− obligatory gradual implementation of Hazar d Analysis and Critical Control Points 
(HACCP) by the producers of food products; 
− traceability of food products production (possi bility to trace the food products on all 
stages of production, processing and circulation); 
− increasing of food products producers responsibility; 
− state authority in the sphere of food safety and quality; 
− development, revision, improvement and utilization of sanitary measures; G/SPS/N/UKR/80 
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  − identification and revision of requirement s for certain food quality coefficients; 
− requirements for producing food facilities for its import (sending) into the customs 
territory of Ukraine; 
− requirements for food production; 
− state registration of food products for special dietary use, functional foods and dietary 
supplements; 
− state registration of food additives, flavors; 
− production and circulation of novel foods; 
− requirements for labelling of food products, including labelling of presence of GMO or 
its components in food labelled "GMO" if the share of genetically modified organisms 
(GMOs) in food exceeds 0.9 per cent; 
− state control of food loads that are imported ( sent) into the customs territory of Ukraine. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from other damage from pests.    
8. Is there a relevant international stan dard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex standard 
or related text)   
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)    
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)    
[ ] None 
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
 [X] Yes   [ ] No 
 If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:    
9. Other relevant documents and language(s ) in which these are available:   
− Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 
28 January 2002 laying down the general pr inciples and requirements of food law, 
establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters 
of food safety; 
− Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 
29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin; 
− Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 
29 April 2004 laying down specific consumption; 
− Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 
29 April 2004 on official controls performed  to ensure the verification of compliance 
with feed and food law, animal h ealth and animal welfare rules. 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  December 2012 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  2012  G/SPS/N/UKR/80 
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  11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [X] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :    
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments:  [X] Sixty days  from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  11 September 2012 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:   
Division for Enquiries, Notification and Information Processing 
Department for WTO Cooperation and Trade Remedies Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine 04655, Kyiv, Hrushevskogo str., 12/2 Tel:  +(38044) 596-68-39 Fax:  +(38044) 281-95-34 
E-mail:  ep@me.gov.ua 
13. Texts available from:  [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:    
Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Uk raine/ State Veterinary and Phytosanitary 
Service of Ukraine  
01001, Kyiv, B.Grinchenko str., 1 Tel:  +(38044) 279-49-06 
Text available at:  http://www.minagro.gov.ua , http://vet.gov.ua , 
http://portal.rada.gov.ua/rada  (in Ukrainian)