. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/UKR/8 
17 December 2008  
 (08-6197) 
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):   
Appliances burning gaseous fuels: 
- appliances used for cooking, lighting, cooling,  washing, heating and obtaining hot water (the 
temperature of the heating element or hot water must not exceed 105 ◦С); 
- burners with forced draft and burning or hea ting appliances equipped  with such burners; 
- safety devices, control or regulating devices and units (in particular, those using power) 
intended for use in appliances during their as sembly that are sold at retail outlets.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  “Technical Regulations 
on Appliances Burning Gaseous Fuels” approved by Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of 
Ukraine No. 856 of 24 September 2008, Kyiv (8 pages).    
6. Description of content:  These Technical Regula tions establish require ments to appliances 
burning gaseous fuels and their sa fety, establish the conformity  assessment procedure, rules 
for marking and introducing products into circulation.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Adapting Ukraine’s legislation to that of the European Union where it relates to safety of 
appliances burning gaseous fuels,  assessing conformity of products  to normative acts of 
EU Member-States.  
8. Relevant documents:   The said Technical Regulations comply with Council Directive 
90/396/EEC of 29 June 1990 on the approximation of  the laws of the Member States relating 
to appliances burning gaseous fuels (in E nglish); Laws of Ukra ine “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 G/TBT/N/UKR/8 
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  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 Tech nical Regulations” (in Ukrainian).    
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:      - 
  1 January 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