President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a law on harmonizing the accreditation of conformity assessment bodies and the technical regulation system with European Union requirements.
The relevant draft law card on the parliament’s website.
The law is a step toward concluding an Agreement on the mutual recognition of conformity assessment results for industrial products between Ukraine and the European Union (the so-called “industrial visa-free regime”) and further integrating Ukraine into the EU internal market.
The document aims to align Ukrainian legislation in the fields of technical regulation and accreditation with EU standards.
The implementation of the law is intended to increase the safety of industrial products, strengthen trust in national certification bodies, and create conditions for expanding access of Ukrainian goods to the EU market.
It will also support the production of Ukrainian goods in line with European safety standards, improve product quality in the domestic market, and expand opportunities for Ukrainian manufacturers to enter the European Union market.
The implementation is additionally expected to create new jobs, contributing to higher incomes through easier access for Ukrainian producers to the EU market.
