OREANDA-NEWS. On September 24, 2008 Ukraine has toughened a certification procedure of the automobiles imported to the country from the US market. Following the order of the State Committee of Ukraine on Technical Regulation and Consumer Policy (DerzhSpozhyvStandart), a grey market has burnt with fever in a literal sense, reported the Official website www.kmu.gov.ua.

Thus, DerzhSpozhyvStandart allowed certification agencies to give the relevant documentation only on the security of a supplier.

Besides, the committee reduced the number of certification centers to 12 and they were brought under strict control.

The main innovation of DerzhSpozhyvStandart was that fact that one can now receive a certificate only based on "a test protocol of a production plant of a transport vehicle" and "a direct agreement with production plants".