Category: Ukraine

Due to the current political conflict in Ukraine & Russia , we are expected delay for getting Type Approvals for the products.

There are three main reasons for this:

1. EU as well as the Russian Federation have reciprocally shut their airspace.
2. DHL and other logistics companies ship no longer to the Russian Federation at the moment, which directly affects sample delivery for mandatory local lab tests.
3. Due to renewed EU sanctions, it will come to payment issues as selected Russian bankshave been excluded from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) system of financial messaging.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved Resolution No 282 “About modification of Technical regulations on the safety of toys” on March 31, 2021. The Resolution makes amendments to the main part of the Regulation that specifies some provisions of the Regulation and reduces the limits of chromium and aluminum in the composition of toys and in the materials from which toys are made as well as the limiting values ​​of formaldehyde in toys.

The Technical regulations on the safety of toys was developed on top of the Directive 2009/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the safety of toys according to the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU. As the Directive 2009/48/EC was changed, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine should have to bring the provisions of the national requirements into compliance with requirements of the Directive and the Agreement.

The Resolution becomes effective on October 3, 2021.

The full text of the Resolution you can find here.

The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers adopted the Resolution № 557 to amend Resolution № 139 namely the “Technical Regulations on the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment” (Ukrainian RoHS).  

The Resolution № 557 came into force on July 3, 2019 – these are the main points: 

1. The resolution excludes pipe organs product group from the scope. 

2. The compliance deadline of July 1, 2019 has been removed for mercury in electric rotating connectors used in intravascular ultrasound imaging systems capable of high operating frequency (> 50 MHz).  

3. The goal of the resolution is to achieve compliance with the requirements of the EU RoHS Directives: 

• (EU) 2018/736 as regards an exemption for lead in glass or ceramic for some electrical components
• (EU) 2018/737 as regards an exemption for lead in solders for the soldering to machined through hole discoidal and planar array ceramic multilayer capacitors
• (EU) 2018/738 as regards an exemption for lead in cermet-based trimmer potentiometer elements
• (EU) 2018/739 as regards an exemption for lead as an alloying element in steel
• (EU) 2018/740 as regards an exemption for lead as an alloying element in aluminum
• (EU) 2018/741 as regards an exemption for lead as an alloying element in copper
• (EU) 2018/742 as regards an exemption for lead in high melting temperature solders