. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/UKR/11 
17 December 2008  
 (08-6200) 
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):  Transportable equipment 
used for transporting hazardous substa nces by highways and railroads, namely:
- vessels (cylinders, cylinder bundles, chambers, pressure rese rvoirs and cryogenic vessels);
- tanks including demountable tanks, containe r tanks (transportable ta nks), portable tanks, 
tanks that are elements of vehicl es-boilers of tank cars , tanks or vessels that are part of lorry 
and trailer or railroad trains, vehicle tanks including valves a nd other auxiliary equipment of 
tanks that are used to transport class 2 ga ses, stabilized class 6,1 hydrogen cyanide, 
dehydrated hydrogen fluoride and class 8 fluorohydrogen acid.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  “Technical Regulations 
on Transportable Pressure Equipment” approved by Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of 
Ukraine of November 5, 2008, No. 967, Kyiv (22 pages).      
6. Description of content:  These Technical Regulations cover transportable pressure 
equipment that is subject to  mandatory conformity assess ment and establish the main 
requirements to safety, conformity assessment, marking, in troducing into circulation, such 
equipment, determine the procedures for peri odic inspections and regulate supervision over 
observance of requirements of  these Technical Regulations.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Adapting Ukraine’s legislation to that of the European Union on safe  use of transportable 
pressure equipment, to normativ e acts of EU Member-States.  
8. Relevant documents:   The said Technical Regulations comply with Council Directive 
1999/36/EC of 29 April 1999 on transportable pre ssure equipment (in English); Laws of 
Ukraine “On Conformity Assessment” (2406- 14), “On Standardization,” (2408-14), “On 
Accrediting Conformity A ssessment Bodies” (2407-14), “On Standards, Technical 
Regulations and Conformity Assessment Pro cedures” (3164-15), “On Ukraine’s Acceding to G/TBT/N/UKR/11 
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  the European Agreement Concerning The In ternational Carriage of Dangerous Goods 
(1511-14), Decrees of the Cabinet of Minist ers of Ukraine of 26 May 2004 No. 687 “On 
Approving the Procedure for Conducting Inspec tions, Testing and Expert Examinations 
(Technical Diagnostics) of Machines, Mechanisms and Equi pment Posing High Hazard,” of 
24 January 2007,  No. 59 “On Approving the Proc edure for Designating Bodies for Assessing 
Conformity of Products, Processes and Servic es to Requirements of Technical Regulations” 
of 29 November 2001, No. 1599 “On Approving th e Description and Rules of Applying the 
National Conformity Mark” of 7 October 2003, No. 1585 “On Approving Technical Regulations on Conformity Asse ssment Modules and Requiremen ts to Applying the National 
Conformity Mark that are Used in T echnical Regulations” (in Ukrainian).   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:      - 
  2011 
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 Inform ation 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