. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/UKR/5 
17 December 2008  
 (08-6187) 
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):  Hot-water boilers fired 
with liquid or gaseous fuels with ou tput capacity from 4 to 400 KWatts. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  “Technical Regulations 
on Hot-Water Boilers Fired With Liquid or Ga seous Fuels” approved by Decree No. 748 of 
27 August 2008 of the Cabinet of Minister s of Ukraine, Kyiv (8 pages).    
6. Description of content:  These Technical Regulations es tablish requirements to water-
heating boilers using liquid or gas fuel, the conformity assessment procedure, rules for 
marking and introducing pr oducts into circulation.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Adapting Ukraine’s legislation to that of the Eu ropean Union where it relates to the safety of 
water-heating boilers using liquid or gas fuel and procedures for asse ssing conformity of 
products to normative acts  of EU Member-States.  
8. Relevant documents:   The said Technical Regulations conform to Council Directive 
92/42/EEC of 21 May 1992 on effici ency requirements for new hot -water boilers fired with 
liquid or gaseous fuels (in English). Laws of Ukraine “On Confor mity Assessment” (2406-
14), “On Standardization,” ( 2408-14), “On Accrediting Conf ormity Assessment Bodies” 
(2407-14), “On Standards, Tech nical Regulations and Confor mity Assessment Procedures” 
(3164-15), Decrees of the Cabine t of Ministers of Ukraine of 24 January 2007,  No. 59 “On 
Approving the Procedure for Designating Bodies  for Assessing Conformity of Products, 
Processes and Services to Re quirements of Technical Regu lations” of 29 November 2001, 
No. 1599 “On Approving the Description and Ru les of Applying the National Conformity 
Mark” of 7 October 2003, No. 1585 “On Approvin g Technical Regulations on Conformity 
Assessment Modules and Requirements to Applying the Natio nal Conformity Mark that are 
Used in Technical Regulations” (in Ukrainian).   G/TBT/N/UKR/5 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:      - 
  27 February 2009 
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