. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/UKR/6 
17 December 2008  
 (08-6188) 
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:  State Committee for Industrial Sa fety, Labor Protection, and Mining 
Supervision (Derzhpromnahliad of Ukraine), State Committee on Technical Regulation and 
Consumer Policy (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):  
 - A conglomerate of several ty pes of devices or equipment intended to ensure user’s 
protection against one or several potential (simultaneous) risks; 
- protective devices or equipment intended for we aring by the user or ensuring their protection 
that is a part or is used together with other equipment; 
- replaceable parts of protective equipment th at are necessary for its normal functioning and 
are used only for such equipment.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Technical Regulations 
on Individual Protective Means approved by  Decree No. 761 of 27 August 2008, of the 
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukra ine, Kyiv (15 pages).    
6. Description of content:  These Technical Regulations stipul ate requirement to the level of 
safety of individual protectiv e means, the procedure for assessing conformity to such 
requirements, establish rules for marking th e said means and introducing them 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 
individual protective means, assessing confor mity of products to normative acts of EU 
Member-States.  G/TBT/N/UKR/6 
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  8. Relevant documents:   The said Technical Regulations comply with Council Directive No. 
89/686/ЕЕС of 21 December 1996, on the approximati on of the laws of the Member States 
relating to personal protective equipment (i n English); Laws of Ukraine “On Conformity 
Assessment” (2406-14), “On St andardization,” (2408-14), “On Accrediting Conformity 
Assessment Bodies” (2407-14), “On Standards,  Technical Regulations and Conformity 
Assessment Procedures” (3164-15) , Decrees of the Cabinet of  Ministers of  Ukraine 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:      - 
  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  Email: ep@mfert.gov.ua 
Website where the text is available: http://portal.rada.gov.ua