KYIV. Aug 26 (Interfax-Ukraine) – A total of 5,000 standards are to be drawn up and approved by 2020 to harmonize the Ukrainian standard system with the European one.
This is stipulated in the technical regulation system development strategy for the period until 2020 approved by cabinet resolution No. 844 of August 19.
According to the strategy, its goal is to modernize the Ukrainian economy and provide for competitiveness of Ukrainian products via gradual integration of Ukraine into the EU market, overcome technical barriers in trade between Ukraine and the EU and strengthen its positions on the global market thanks to the recognition of the technical regulation system of Ukraine on the European and international levels.
According to the document, small volumes of Ukrainian products exports to the EU shows that the quality and safety of products and relevant technologies used in Ukraine should be improved.
“The important task is the increase of efficiency and competitiveness of the economy, in particular, industrial production. The proper quality and safety of product is to be retained, as the EU laws pay special attention to this,” reads the strategy.
The key directions of the realization of the strategy is the adaptation of Ukrainian law in the technical regulation area to EU laws; the adoption of the European standards as national with the synchronous revoking of GOST standards; removal of doubling functions in state supervision (control) over the compliance of products to the requirements; and the provision of the full correspondence of the Ukrainian technical regulation system to the EU requirements. The strategy also foresees the improvement of the existing material and technical base to assess the compliance of products to the requirements, securing the reorganization letters of accreditation issued by the National Accreditation Agency of Ukraine at the European and international levels, securing the integration of the information exchange system in the area of state market supervision with the EU systems.
The strategy includes 58 clauses and the Economic Development and Trade, Finance Ministry, Foreign Ministry, Justice Ministry, Infrastructure Ministry, Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Ministry, National and state scientific metrological centers, etc are responsible for the implementation of the strategy.
