. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/UKR/9 
17 December 2008  
 (08-6198) 
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 Industrial Policy of  Ukraine (MIP), State Committee on 
Technical Regulation and Consumer Polic y (Derzhspozhivstandart of Ukraine) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and web-site 
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 [   ], 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):   
Equipment and protective systems intended fo r use in potentially explosive atmospheres: 
- equipment and protective systems; - protective, control and steeri ng devices that are intended  for use outside potentially 
explosive atmospheres and are necessary to ensure safe functioning of equipment and 
protective systems; 
- vehicles intended for use in potentially e xplosive atmospheres of mines and production 
workshops. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  “Technical Regulations 
on equipment and Protective Systems Intend ed for Use in Potentially Explosive 
Atmospheres” approved by Decree  of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukrain e of 8 October 2008, 
No. 898, Kyiv (14 pages).    
6. Description of content:  These Technical Regulations esta blish requirements to ensuring 
safety of equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres, the procedure for a ssessing conformity to such requi rements as well as rules for 
marking and introducing the said equipment and protective systems into circulation.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Adapting Ukraine’s legislation to that of the European Union where it relates to ensuring 
safety of equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres, assessing conform ity of products to normative acts of EU Member-States.  
8. Relevant documents:   The said Technical Regulations comply with Directive 94/9/EC of the 
European Parliament and the Council of 23 Ma rch 1994 on the approximation of the laws of 
the Member States concerning equipment an d protective systems intended for use in 
potentially explosive at mospheres (in English); G/TBT/N/UKR/9 
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  Laws of Ukraine “On Conform ity Assessment” (2406-14), “On Standardization,” (2408-14), 
“On Accrediting Conformity Assessment B odies” (2407-14), “On St andards, Technical 
Regulations and Conformity As sessment Procedures” (3164-15), Decrees of the Cabinet of 
Ministers of Ukraine of 24 January 2007,  No. 59 “On Approving the Procedure for 
Designating Bodies for Assess ing Conformity of Products, Processes and Services to 
Requirements of Technical Regulations” of  29 November 2001, No. 1599 “On Approving the 
Description and Rules of Applying the Natio nal Conformity Mark” of 7 October 2003, 
No. 1585 “On Approving Technical Regulations  on Conformity Assessment Modules and 
Requirements to Applying the National Confor mity Mark that are Used in Technical 
Regulations” (in Ukrainian).   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:      - 
  2012 
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 Enquiry Point and Info rmation Processing Centre 
MSP 04655, city of Kyiv, 8 Lvivska Sq.  Tel. 272 1578, Fax 272 1147  E-mail: ep@mfert.gov.ua Website where the text is available: http://portal.rada.gov.ua