. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/UKR/53 
17 January 2011  
 (11-0280) 
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:  Ministry of economic development and trade of Ukraine  
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 Enquiry Point and Information Processing Centre  
MSP 04655, city of Kyiv, 8 Lvivska Sq. Tel.:  +38 (044) 272-11-24 Fax:  +38 (044) 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):  Children's food products 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  The draft Law of 
Ukraine "On amendments to Law of Ukraine On child's nutrition", registered in the 
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine  as No. 2746-VI of 2 December 2010 (8 pages, in Ukrainian).          
6. Description of content:  The draft Law states necessity of state registration and sanitary - 
epidemiological examination of children's food pr oducts.  It foresees children's food products 
production in the specialized industr ial enterprises and sets more detailed rules relating to the 
labelling of child's food products.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Improvement of the child's food products quality  and safety; increase  of requirements for 
production and circulation of child's food pr oducts; harmonization of notions according to 
international terminology; elimination of disc ordances between nati onal and international 
standards on child's food products; establishment of detailed re quirements for child's food 
products labelling.  
8. Relevant documents:   This regulatory act is prepared  taking into account the Laws of 
Ukraine " On child's nutrition", "On safety a nd quality of food products",  "On consumer right 
protection", "On Veterina ry Medicine", "On ensuring sanita ry and epidemiologic welfare of 
population". G/TBT/N/UKR/53 
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  Commission Directive 2006/141/EC  of 22 December 2006 On infant formulae and follow-on 
formulae and amending Directive 1999/21/EC. 
The text of the draft Law can be found in Ukrainian at:  
http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/z web_n/webproc4_1?id=&pf3511=35412
    
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }2011 (90 days after official publication) 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from the date of notification 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
National WTO Enquiry Point and Information Processing Centre 
MSP 04655, city of Kyiv, 8 Lvivska Sq. 
Tel.:  +38 (044) 272-1124 Fax:  +38 (044) 272-1147 E-mail:  mailto:ep@mfert.gov.ua
 
Website where the text is available: 
http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/z web_n/webproc4_1?id=&pf3511=35412   (Ukrainian version)