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In accordance with the Association Agreement, Ukraine is harmonizing their legislation with Eropean Union. As a result, within 2019 in Ukraine several legal acts came into force establishes the legal and organizational basis for providing consumers with information and affected the labelling of food products, including dietary supplements, child and medical foods.

We would like to inform you on the recent news concerning the food products in Ukraine.
 
The Language Law. On July 16, the Law of Ukraine "On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as State Language" came into force. The law stipulates that the only state (official) language in Ukraine is Ukrainian language, however it regulates only public relations and does not affect the private life.
 

News under the tag “Brexit” appear in Ukrainian mass media more and more frequently, describing various aspects of the UK politics and economics. Considering new development vector of any country, first of all we must consider the political process with hardly predictable multi-level impact on certain economic realm, industries and production. It is important not to miss in this variety of information and analytics the provisions which can be applicable to the certain industry.

About three years ago the first Agreement on recognition of conformity assessment results was signed by notified body TÜV SÜD. This agreement started national conformity assessment of medical devices from the European market in a faster, more economical and transparent way.

We inform you on the most actual news regarding medical devices in Ukraine in June, July and August 2019. 

Technical regulations and market surveillance. On July 3, amendments to the Law of Ukraine ‘On Technical regulations and conformity assessment’ came in force. Amendments were introduced under the Law ‘On amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine on the implementation of acts of European Union legislation in the field of technical regulation’. The most significant changes:

In this digest you will find the most important news on registration, safety and quality management of medicinal products in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, which entered into force at the end of 2018 and in the first half of 2019.

The most significant news in brief:

On May 16, 2019, the Law of Ukraine “On Ensuring the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as the State Language” (hereinafter – “the Law”) was published. The Law will enter into force on July 16, 2019, and transitional periods of 6 months have been set for a significant part of the provisions.

On April 9, 2019, the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 296 came into force and approved amendments to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No.

1. All medical devices that include radio equipment (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS and other radio communication modules) must comply with the Technical Regulations of the radio equipment approved by Decree of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No.355 as of May 24, 2017 and when placing on the market, must be accompanied with relevant Declaration of conformity. The Technical regulation of radio equipment was developed in accordance with Directive 2014/53/EC, however it has a number of national particularities.