. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/UKR/52 
10 January 2011  
 (11-0115) 
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 Technical Regulation and Consumer Policy 
(DSSU) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and website 
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):  Labelling of packaged 
foodstuff which are being sold through wholesale or retail distribution network to the "end 
consumer", as well as some aspects of design a nd advertising of such foodstuff;  labelling of 
packaged foodstuff which are being supplied to the restaurants (including pre–schools, 
schools, medical, medical dispensary institutions and other similar institutions). 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  The Draft of the 
Technical Regulation on the rules relati ng to the labelling of foodstuff. 
6. Description of content:  The proposed Draft of the Techni cal Regulation establishes terms 
and their definitions which are uniformed accordi ng to the international practice, as well as 
unified general list of mandatory items of foodstuff labelling and rules of information 
submission according to the peculiarities of production, packaging, storage and consumption 
of certain product groups.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Adaptation of Ukrainian legislation to the EU le gislation on the rules relating to the labelling 
of foodstuff under the regulatory and legal framework of the Member States.  
8. Relevant documents:  
– The Draft of Technical Regulation meet s the requirements of the European 
Parliament and the European Council Di rective 2000/13/EC of 20 March 2000 on the 
approximation of the laws of the Member St ates relating to the labelling, presentation 
andadvertising of foodstuffs;  
– Laws of Ukraine "On conformity assessm ent" (2406–14), "On standards, technical 
regulations and conformity assessment  procedures" (3164–15) , "On safety and 
quality of food products", "On c onsumer right protection".  G/TBT/N/UKR/52 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }2011 
10. Final date for comments:  1 February 2011 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and website addresses, if available of the other body:  
WTO National Enquiry Point & Information Processing Centre 
04655, Kyiv, Lvivska Square, 8 Tel.:  272 1578, Fax 272 1147  
E-mail: ep@mfert.gov.ua
 
Internet address where the text is available: http://www.dssu.gov.ua
 (in Ukrainian)