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9 December 2019  
(19-8458) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UKRAINE   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture 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 [X], 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):  
Detergents  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  The Draft of the 
Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine "On Amendments to the Resolution of 
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of August 20, 2008 No. 717" (3 page(s), in Ukrainian)  
6. Description of content:  The amendments aim to establish a well -defined and simplified 
conformity assessment procedure  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  As of today, each product unit is subject to a conformity assessment 
procedure.   With the adoption of the draft Resolution, the Technical Regulation will be 
amended in terms of establishing possibility for economic entities to conduct conformity 
assessmen t procedure not for each unit of products, as it used to be, but for a typical 
representative of the assortment (model) range. This will contribute to a significant 
reduction in the costs of economic entities to conduct conformity assessment procedures 
for detergents.  
8. Relevant documents:   
• Law of Ukraine "On Technical Regulations and Conformity Assessment" (available 
in Ukrainian)  
• The Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine "On approval of the Technical 
Regulation of detergents" of August 20, 2008 № 717 (available in Ukrainian)  
• Ukraine's notification G/TBT/N/UKR/4  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  February 2020  
Proposed date of entry into force:  6 months from the date of publication  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  G/TBT/N/UKR/158  
 
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  11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
The text is available at the official web -site of The Ministry for Development of Economy, 
Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine:  
http://www.me.gov.ua/Documents/Detail?lang=uk -UA&id=ab184849 -f90f-42dc-9392-
6ce7f9ef1286&title=ProektPostanoviKabinetuMinistrivUkraini -
proVnesenniaZminDoPostan oviKabinetuMinistrivUkrainiVid20 -Serpnia2008 -R-717-  
 