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THE GOVERNMENT CHANGED THE PROCEDURE FOR CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS IMPORT FOR POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION

07 July 2022

Yaroslava LAGAN, Senior Associate, Attorney ADER HABER

News for importers and producers of construction products: the government simplified the procedures for construction products import. Respective changes were made by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to the Technical Regulations for construction products.

Technical regulations is a document describing characteristics of particular product or requirements for its production, designation, packaging, labelling, etc., a product must be compliant with in order for the products to be imported and sold on the territory of Ukraine.

Technical regulations often do not include direct requirements for product characteristics, these characteristics can be found in the relevant state standards, and the Technical Regulation describes procedures that have to be carried out by the producer or importer to confirm compliance with these standards.

In this case Technical regulations give an answer to the question: is it enough for the producer or importer to simply declare the product’s compliance with quality requirements, or should such compliance be confirmed by a Ukrainian conformity assessment authority by issuing a certificate of conformity for the product. This is case with the Technical Regulations for construction products.

In accordance with the amendments to the Technical Regulations for construction products for the period of martial law and during the next 90 calendar days after it ends:

  • Importers are allowed to import construction products from EU without certification, but only with the Declaration of Performance of construction products (products) — a document issued independently by a foreign producer to confirm compliance of product quality with the requirements of European legislation. Such a declaration can be filled in the original language, but accompanied by a copy in Ukrainian.
  • If domestic producer cannot carry out a conformity assessment using the procedures specified in the Technical Regulations (for example, certification), such a manufacturer, subject to approval of the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine, can use another procedure provided by legislation and available to him under the existing circumstances.

In such a way, the Government has simplified the procedures for assessing the conformity of construction products in order to speed up the reconstruction of destroyed objects. It is expected that such measures will speed up the import of construction products and the entry of domestic ones into the market to help Ukraine in the difficult task of post-war reconstruction.

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