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ORGANIZATIONWT/ACC/UKR/82
30 June 2000
(00-2711)
Working Party on the
Accession of UkraineOriginal:  English
DRAFT NOTIFICATION
1. Country that has completed the form: UKRAINE
2. Agency responsible:  State Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Certification of
Ukraine
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 2.10.1 [   ],  5.6.2 [ X ], 5.7.1 [   ].
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):
not applicable
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft Law of Ukraine
 “On conformity assessment”, 8 pages, in Ukrainian
6. Description of content: The Draft Law envisages implementation of the module approach
to the conformity assessment on the basis of supplier’s conformity declaration, carrying
out conformity assessment works by certifica tion bodies of any ownership form, transition
from the list of products that are subject to mandatory certification to conformity
assessment for special product types in the legislative-regulated sphere likewise existent
European practice.
The Draft Law will ensure coordination of authorities’ actions in the sphere of conformity
assessment, differentiation of their proxy and avoidance of duplicating; unprejudgement,transparency and accessibility of conformity assessment procedures; identity of the
conformity assessment procedures for the domestic and import products; full and thorough
informing all the interested parties as to conformity assessment questions. When working
out the Draft Law there were taken into account the main principles of the World Trade
Organization Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), principles of the EuropeanCommunity Council’s Decision of 22 July 1993 93/465/EEC
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: To
establish general legal and organization grounds for assessment of products conformity to
requirements valid in Ukraine and to ensure unified technical politics in the field ofconformity assessment.WT/ACC/UKR/82
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8. Relevant documents: Draft Law of Ukraine “On conformity assessment” has been worked
out according to the President of Ukraine’s Decree of 22 January 2000 N89/2000 “On
implementation of the unified regulation politics in the entrepreneur activity” and the
Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers’ Commissi on of 26 January 2000 N1090/1. The Draft is
published in the journal “Standardization, Certification, Quality” (N 1, 2000).
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:
The Draft is being under consideration of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers.
10. Final date for comments:
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X ] or address, e-mail and telefax number
of the other body:
Ukrainian Research Institute for Standardization,
Certification and Informatics174, Gorkiy Street, 03680,
Kyiv 150, MSP,
Ukraine
Tel.: +380 44 268 90 12;
Fax: + 380 44 268 70 60;E-mail:  dstu@naifs.ukrpack.net