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Notifying Member: UKRAINE

If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):

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Agency responsible: Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources 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:

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Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [ ], 3.2 [ ], 7.2 [ ], other:

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Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Plant protection products and agrochemicals

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft Law of Ukraine "On Placing of Plant Protection Products and Agrochemicals on the Market"; (21 page(s), in Ukrainian)

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Description of content: The draft Law aims to establish the procedures for placing of plant protection products and agrochemicals on the market in accordance with the EU regulations in force. Its purpose is to define the terminology and basic concepts on the approval of active substances, antidotes and synergists contained in the preparative forms of plant protection products, to define unacceptable coformulants that cannot be contained in plant protection products, to harmonize the procedures for placing on the market of agrochemicals and to determine the procedure for handling hazardous substances.

The draft Order is developed to improve the state regulation in the sphere of pesticides and agrochemicals taking into account the Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC, Regulation (EU) 2019/1009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 laying down rules on the making available on the market of EU fertilising products and amending Regulations (EC) No 1069/2009 and (EC) No 1107/2009 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003.

It is established that all existing registrations of pesticides and agrochemicals in accordance with the Law of Ukraine "On Pesticides and Agrochemicals", which will be valid as of the date of entry into force of this Law, shall remain valid until their completion without the need for approval of the active substance.

The current Law of Ukraine "On Pesticides and Agrochemicals" will become invalid from the date of entry into force of this Law.

The draft Law is also notified in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.

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Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: Protection of human health or safety; Protection of the environment

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Relevant documents:

Laws of Ukraine "On Environmental Protection", "On Pesticides and Agrochemicals", "On Plant Protection", "On Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare of the Population".

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Proposed date of adoption: To be determined

Proposed date of entry into force: The Law will enter into force on the day following the day of its publication and will enact in 6 months after its entry into force, except for parts two, five and six of Article 4, Articles 7 - 9, paragraph seven of part three of Article 10, Articles 12 and 13 and Article 16, which will enact in 1 year after the entry into force of this Law.

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Final date for comments: 60 days from notification

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Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:

https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/UKR/22_8351_00_x.pdf