Ukrainian export- import operations of selected
agricultural produce with countries of the EC: (a regulatory
guide)
This guide provides a description of
the current key Ukrainian and EU legislation governing the trade in
certain food and agricultural products. There are several major
differences between the legislative and institutional approaches
and mechanisms which will become clear during reading. These
differences are key in understanding the tasks of the producers in
preparing themselves to compete on a more open market and the
legislators in providing regulation appropriate to both the
protection of the Ukrainian consumer and defining support to the
Ukrainian producer within the framework of the WTO SPS.
Many of the changes needed to open
up foreign markets to Ukrainian producers are not in their hands
but in the hands of the Ukrainian policy makers and legislators.
Many of the measures needed to ensure the safety of the Ukrainian
consumer are not in the hands of the Ukrainian government but
rather in those of the producers. As will be seen there is also
much to do for the producers in terms of overcoming EU market
obstacles and a massive task for the Ukrainian government to
modernise the regulatory and institutional systems needed for a
competitive and safe agricultural produce and food industry.
This guide will also be the basis
for a future analysis to identify regulatory and other obstacles in
trade of food and agricultural produce for the purposes of
preparing a policy paper for the Ukrainian Government. As a first
step this guide is merely an outline description of the way things
currently stand. In this way two key actors in the process of
enhancing the SPS regulatory framework are aware of their shared
starting point, their common strategic goal and the extent of their
respective tasks.
Web page references to much of the
legislation referred that can be found as footnotes in the text and
some of the key regulatory documents can be found translated into
Ukrainian on the project website
The guide covers only trade of the
following agricultural produce: milk, meat and cereals. It
therefore makes no claims to being comprehensive and exhaustive.
The manual has been prepared based on legislation as of 1.07.2005
and whilst the authors are aware of the proposed legislation in
this sphere pending consideration in the Verhovna Rada, the guide
doesn’t take into account changes in the legislation which took
place after this date.
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