OREANDA-NEWS. September 13, 2011. For reforming of system of technical regulation for one and a half year it performed a number of key measures for the purpose of bring it to conformity with the European norms and standards.

First of all, it has adopted three major laws of Ukraine ("On the market surveillance and control of non-food products", "On the overall security of non-food products" and "Responsibility for damage caused by a defect in the product") under which in July this year, instead of state control production is carried out market surveillance of product safety, which is already available on the market.

Besides, thanks to the accepted Presidential decrees of Ukraine on optimization of system of the central executive authorities and about the statement of positions about the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and the State Inspection of Ukraine for Consumer Rights Protection of function of standardization, certification and goods control are accurately differentiated between the Ministry of Economic Development and the State Inspection for Consumer Rights Protection. It has allowed eliminating completely the conflict of interests between the enforcement authorities, standards engaged in development and performing the control of their observance.

Already today the list of goods subject to obligatory certification is reduced by almost 17%. In particular, obligatory certification of 50 groups of an industrial output and services of a food which are given by subjects of tourist activity and 12 groups of food goods, and also 80 groups of goods regarding conformity to the established requirements on electromagnetic compatibility are completely cancelled. It will allow business entities to save means and time for entering of these goods into circulation in the market of Ukraine, having directed the saved means for production modernization.

But work in this direction proceeds and orders have already been prepared by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade on cancellation of obligatory certification about 150 groups of the industrial goods and 5 groups of food products.

Also the Government has approved the bill of cancellation of declarations registration of conformity of goods which is submitted for consideration by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Accepting of this bill will allow economic entities to save time (about 10 days) and means (more than 40 million hryvnias a year) when placing the product on the market.

It should be noted that on the official website of the State Inspection for Consumer Rights Protection contains the text 556 national standards (about 76% of the total), which in the case of voluntary use of them are proof of product compliance with technical regulations. The texts of other 177 standards will be placed before the end of this year after transferring them into electronic form.