The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has adopted a resolution on the launch of a pilot project for a unified state electronic system in the field of food safety and consumer protection—“eFood,” according to a press release from the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.
According to the statement, the initiative aims to digitize services and state oversight, making processes more transparent and convenient for businesses.
“We are essentially building a new architecture for state control. eFood is about speed, transparency, and trust. The new project is part of a systemic reform of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection aimed at creating a modern digital ecosystem that will meet European standards,” emphasized the agency’s head, Serhiy Tkachuk.
As explained by Solomiya Starosolska, head of the Office of Digitalization, business interaction with the state was previously overly bureaucratic: more than half of the processes were managed in Excel spreadsheets, and registries were fragmented. The new system will consolidate these processes into a single, logical environment.
The “eFood” ecosystem will include a single service portal, electronic user accounts, digital profiles of market operators, a map of regional investment attractiveness, and a mobile app for inspectors with a video recording feature for inspections. Automatic registration of facilities will take a few hours, and the issuance of permits will take 7 to 15 days instead of 30. In the future, the system will consolidate up to 17 registries and enable the provision of over 500,000 services annually.
At launch, “eFood” will cover 9 key services, including facility registration and the submission of feed declarations. Concurrently, the State Register of Market Operators is being launched, which will serve as the core of the system. The pilot project format will allow for testing digital approaches and preparing the legislative framework for the full-scale implementation of the ecosystem.
The reform is being implemented as part of the Association Agreement with the EU and European regulations on food safety. This involves full integration into the European model, ensuring product traceability and digital data exchange.
