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ORGANIZATIONWT/ACC/UKR/66/Add.1
17 August 1999
(99-3461)
Working Party on the
Accession of UkraineOriginal:  English
ACCESSION OF UKRAINE
Procedure for the State Sanitary and Hygienic Expertise of the
Development, Production and Use of Products, wh ich are Potentially Harmful to Human Health
Addendum
The following information has been received from the Governmental Commission on
Ukraine's Accession to WTO.
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Approved by the Order of the Ministry of Health Protection of Ukraine No.190, of 20 October 1995.
Registered at the Ministry of Justic e of Ukraine No.3/1028, on 3 January 1996.
The Procedure of the state sanitary and hygienic expertise of the development, production and
use of products, which are potentially harmful to human health, includes the following stages:
1. The state registration of the hazardous factors, upon which the Certificate of the Ministry of
Health Committee on Hygienic Reglamentation is issued, as provided for in the Resolution of the
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 13 June 1995, No. 420.
2. The state sanitary and hygienic expertise of draft legal acts. This stage is followed by the
issue of the conclusion of the state sanitary and hygi enic expertise as provided for in the “Regulation
On the State Sanitary and Hygienic Expertise of Draft Legal Acts with Bodies, Institutions and
Establishments of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service”, approved by this Order.
3. The hygienic inspection of producing enterprises, institutions, organizations, technologies of
production, the conditions of the transportation and storage of the products. The stage is followed with
the issue of an act, certifying that the product complies with the sanitary rules and regulations.
4. The laboratory studies of samples of the relevant domestic and imported products. These are
to determine whether the imported and domestic products comply with the sanitary rules and
regulations.
5. The state sanitary and hygienic expertise of the document, certifying that the domestic and
imported products comply with the sanitary and hygien ic rules. This stage is followed with the issue
of a hygienic conclusion.
6. Random verification of the production process. The verification is to determine whether these
conditions comply with the sanitary rules and regulations and legal acts as provided for in the
“Regulation on the Procedure of the issue of the Hygienic Conclusion on the Products by Bodies,
Institutions and Establishments of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service”, approved by this
Order.
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