THE CABINET OF MINISTERS OF UKRAINE 
RESOLUTION  
No. 1103  
of September  05, 2007  
Kyiv  
On Approving the Technical Regulation for Nautical 
Equipment  
In accordance with Article 14 of the Law of Ukra ine “On Standards, Technical Regulations, and 
Conformity Assessment Procedures”, th e Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine hereby resolves :  
1. To approve the Technical Regulation for Nau tical Equipment and the action plan for the 
implementation of the Technical Regulation for Nautical Equipmen t during the period leading up 
to 2011, hereby attached.  
2. The State Committee on Technical Regulation a nd Consumer Policy sha ll approve the list of 
nautical equipment to be covere d by said Technical Regulation.  
3. The Ministry of Transport and Communication shall provide for the implementation of this 
Technical Regulation and for the supervision over the conformance w ith the requirements 
thereof.  
   
Prime Minister of Ukraine   V. YANUKOVYCH  
 
 
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 APPROVED 
by Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine  No. 1103 of September 05,  2007.   
TECHNICAL REGULATION 
on Nautical Equipment  
General Provisions  
1. This Technical Regulation lays down safety requirements for nautical equipment and the 
procedures for the assessment of conformity with these requirements, and establishes the rules 
for marking such equipment and for entering it into circulation.  
2. For the purposes of this Technical Regulation, terms used shall have the following meanings:  
Nautical equipment: products intended to be in stalled on board of a vessel in accordance with 
international requirements, as set forth in  the list of nautical equipment approved by 
Derzhspozhyvstandart (the Stat e Committee on Technical Regulation and Consumer Policy) 
(hereinafter “the List”);  
Vessel: a vessel covered by valid international conventions, with the exception of military 
vessels.  
Other terms shall be used in the meanings  as defined in the Laws of Ukraine "On 
Standardization”, “On Accred iting Conformity Assessment Bodies”, “On Assessment of 
Conformity”, and “On Conformity Assessmen t Standards, Technical Regulations, and 
Procedures”.  
3. Effect of this Technical Regulation shall ex tend to the nautical equipment intended to be 
installed on board of a vessel sai ling under Ukraine’s national flag. 
Effect of this Technical Regulation shall not extend to the nautical equipment installed on board 
of a vessel prior to the entry into force of this Technical Regulation.  
4. Nautical equipment included in the list of na utical equipment and ma nufactured prior to the 
entry into force of this Techni cal Regulation, may also be installed on board of a vessel if such 
nautical equipment conforms w ith the certificate issued in accordance with the established 
procedure.  
5. Where nautical equipment is covered by effect of other technical regu lations, such nautical 
equipment must conform solely to the re quirements of this Technical Regulation.  
6. Entry into circulation of nautical equipment shall only be allowed conditional on carrying out 
the assessment of its conformity with the requirements of this Technical Regulation with regard to the conformity assessment procedures laid down there, and conditional on its being installed 
and serviced according to the manufacturer’s documents and used for the intended purposes.  
Entry into circulation of nautical equipment w ithout a declaration of conformity and without 
affixing the national conformity mark, shall be forbidden.  
7. Testing of nautical equipment shall be carried out in compliance with the relevant standards 
established in the documents of the Interna tional Maritime Organization and in the national 
harmonized standards, in the up dated versions thereof, adopted in conformance with the 
international requirements stipulating the methods  and sought-after results of such testing.  8. Manufacturers of the nautical equipment that is being entered into circulation, and their 
authorized representatives, central executive au thorities that are responsible for the technical 
regulation of and the supervision over the techni cal condition of nautical equipment, and the 
nautical equipment conformity assessment bodies , shall be required to abide by the requirements 
and rules established by this Technical Regulation.  
A manufacturer of nautical equipm ent or an authorized represen tative thereof shall be liable 
under the law for the conformity of such nautic al equipment with the requirements established 
by this Technical Regulation.  
Safety Requirements for Nautical Equipment  
9. Safety requirements and conformity assessment pr ocedures for nautical equipment shall be set 
forth in the List.  
10. Installation on board of a vessel of such nau tical equipment as does not conform with the 
requirements of this Technical Regulation, may be allowed (with the exception of technical 
innovations) solely on condition that  such equipment is being inst alled for testing.  At that, 
measures must be taken to prevent harmful im pact from the radio and communication equipment 
on the radio-frequency spectrum.  
Conformity Assessment Procedures  
11. The assessment of nautical equipment’s conform ity with the requirements of this Technical 
Regulation shall be carried out by the manufacturer or  the authorized representative thereof, with 
application of the procedures (conformity asse ssment modules) established in the Resolution of 
the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1585 of October 07, 2003 “On Approving the Technical 
Regulation on Conformity Assessment Modules  and the Requirement s Concerning the 
Application of the National Conformity Mar k, as Applied in Technical Regulations on 
Conformity Assessment” (“Ofitsiyniy Visnyk Ukrayiny”, 2003, No. 41, p. 2175; No. 1, p. 31).  
12. One of the following conformity assessment  procedures may be applied to nautical 
equipment:  
Module B (verification of type) in combination with module C (conformity  with type) or module 
D (production quality assurance), or module E (product quality assurance), or module F 
(inspection of products), at the manufacturer 's option, in accordance with the List;  
Module H (comprehensive quality assurance).  
Where nautical equipment is manufactured as a uni que article or in small numbers, not serially, 
conformity assessment may be carried out accordi ng to module G (inspection of individual units 
of a product).  
13. In the course of carrying out nautical equipm ent conformity assessment, the manufacturer or 
the authorized representative ther eof shall draw up a declaration of  conformity according to the 
form provided in the Annex, and shall affix the national conformity mark on each article as 
required by this Technical Regulation.  
14. Technical documents submitted by the manufacturer  or the authorized representative thereof, 
to the conformity assessment body, the requirement s for which have been established in the 
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine’s Resolu tion No. 59 of January 24, 2007 “On Approving the Procedure for the Application of the Procedure fo r the Appointment of Bodies Charged with the 
Assessment of Conformity of Products, Proce sses, and Services with the Requirements of 
Technical Regulations” (“Ofitsiyniy Visnyk Ukra yiny”, 2007, No. 6, p. 223), shall be required to 
contain:  
Technical specifications for the nautical equipm ent, technical documents for the production of 
the nautical equipment, as well as  testing program and methodology;  
Service and maintenance documents (tech nical description, operation manual);  
List of standards out of the List of National Standards, officially p ublished by the central 
executive authority in the field of standardizat ion, the voluntary application of which may be 
accepted as proof of the nautical equipment’s conf ormity with the requirements of this Technical 
Regulation;  
Results of performed design calculations, inspections etc.  
15. The manufacturer or the authorized representa tive thereof must keep  the declaration of 
conformity and the technical documents listed in paragraph 16 of this Technical Regulation, 
during a period of ten years after the entry into circulation of the last technical means, and 
present it for inspection in the cases established by law.  
Marking  
16. Nautical equipment the conformity of which ha s been affirmed by the established procedure, 
must bear the national conformity mark, affi xed on it by the manufacturer or the authorized 
representative thereof.  
17. The procedure for the application of the nati onal conformity mark shall be carried out in 
accordance with the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine’s Resolu tion No. 1599 of November 29, 
2001 “On Approving the Description and the Ru les for the Application of the National 
Conformity Mark” (“Ofitsiyniy Vi snyk Ukrayiny”, 2001, No. 49, p. 2188).  
18. The national conformity mark shall be affixed on nautical equipment or  on a data plate in 
such a manner as to be visible, expressive, and not susceptible to be obliterated during the 
expected service life of the nautical equipmen t.  Where this is impossible to achieve or 
guarantee, because of the specific features of a part  of the nautical equipment, the mark shall be 
affixed on the packing of the nautical equipment, on the tag or on the leaflet.  
19. The national conformity mark shall be pl aced after the identification number of the 
conformity assessment body that ca rried out the conformity assessm ent procedure, provided that 
this body was engaged in products control, with indi cation of the two last digits of the year when 
the mark was affixed.  
20. It shall be forbidden to affix such marks or inscriptions on nautical equipment as may 
mislead with regard to the significance or grap hic images of the national conformity mark.  
21. The national conformity mark shall be affixe d at the finishing stag e of manufacture.  
    
 
PLAN 
of Measures to Implement the Technica l Regulation for Nautical Equipment for 
the Period Leading up to 2011  
Description of Measure  Entities Responsible 
for the Execution  Execution Period, 
Years  
1. Coordination and publication of the List of National Standards that, in the case of voluntary application, sha ll be deemed proof of 
products conformity with the requirements of 
the Technical Regulation  
Inclusion in the plan of  state standardization, 
the development of national standards harmonized with the inte rnational standards  Mintranszviazku (the 
Ministry of Transport 
and Communication), 
Minprompolityky (the 
Ministry of Industrial 
Policy), 
Derzhspozhyvstandart  annually 
2. Bringing the normative-legal acts of the 
Ministry and of othe r central executive 
authorities to the conformity with the provisions of the Technical Regulation  - " -  2007 - 2009  
3. Popularization of th e application of the 
Technical Regulation provisions via mass media, seminars, and conferences  - " -  2007 - 2010  
4. Preparation of the domestic manufacturing 
enterprises for the production of nautical equipment in compliance with the requirements of the Technical Regulation  Mintranszviazku, 
Minprompolityky  - " -  
5. Voluntary application by enterprises of the 
Technical Regulation, along with carrying out conformity assessment in accordance with the Technical Regulation  - " -  2009 - 2010  
6. Appointment of  conformity assessment 
bodies charged with carrying out the assessment of nautical equipment conformity with the requirements of the Technical Regulation  Mintranszviazku, 
Minprompolityky, 
Derzhspozhyvstandart  2008 - 2010  
7. Mandatory application by enterprises of the 
Technical Regulation  Mintranszviazku, 
Minprompolityky  2011  
 
 
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  APPROVED 
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