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ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/UKR/76 
11 April 2012  
 (12-1884) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  UKRAINE  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email 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):  All products that come 
under Technical Regulations 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Decree of the 
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine "On Amendmen ts to the Procedure for the appointment of 
authorities for the conformity assessment of pr oducts, processes and services according to 
requirements of technical regula tions, what (the Procedure) was approved by the Decree of 
the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukra ine as of 24 January 2007 No. 59 " (1 list, in Ukrainian).     
6. Description of content:  The proposed amendments provide that claiming to be appointed 
conformity assessment bodi es are to be accredited by national accreditation body of Ukraine. 
In case if the national body of Ukraine do es not perform accredi tation in respect of 
appropriate activities on conf ormity assessment - by the national accredi tation body of 
another state.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The 
objectives of developing of the Draft Decree are to bring into conformity with provisions of 
Regulations (EU) No 765/2008 of the European Pa rliament and of the council of 9 July 2008 
setting out the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relation to the 
marketing of products and  with the Law of Uk raine "On Amending Certain Laws of Ukraine 
regarding accreditation of conformity assessmen t bodies", "On accreditation of conformity 
assessment bodies".  G/TBT/N/UKR/76 
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  8. Relevant documents:    
- The Law of Ukraine "On Standards, Technical Regulations  and Conformity 
 Assessment Procedures"; 
- The Law of Ukraine "On accreditati on of conformity assessment bodies" 
Regulations (EU) No 765/2008 of the European Pa rliament and of the council of 9 July 2008 
setting out the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relation to the 
marketing of products (English). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    From the date of publication 
10. Final date for comments:  23 May 2012 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine 
01008, Kyiv, 12/2 M. Hrushevskoho str. Tel./Fax:  +38044 596 68 39/ +38044 281 95 34 Email:  ep@me.gov.ua  
Internet address where the text is available (in Ukrainian): 
http://www.me.gov.ua/control/uk/publis h/article?art_id =179697&cat_id=32862   
and: 
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/tbt/UKR/12_1231_00_e.pdf