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LEGISLATIVE AND REGULATORY FOOD SAFETY IN UKRAINE

Yuliia Slyva
National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine;
E-mail.: yuliia_slyva@ukr.net
Ensuring the safety and quality of products is an important component of protecting the
health of consumers in any country. Legislation on the safety and quality of food products in
the European Union (EU) member states is now recognized as one of the best and most
effective in the world.
The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, signed in 2014, clearly sets out the obligations
of our state to harmonize national legislation with the requirements of the EU by 2021. These
obligations also apply to the requirements for quality, food safety, and the state control
system for compliance with food safety legislation that is produced and put into circulation in
the territory of Ukraine.
A fairly large part of the Association Agreement with the EU Chapter IV (Sanitary and
Phytosanitary Measures) of Section IV 'Trade and Trade-related Issues' is devoted to the
safety of food products and sanitary and phytosanitary measures. National food and
consumer market operators are waiting for the adoption of a number of bills that will cover
the entire scope of the quality and safety of food products. Ukraine should implement more
than 250 EU acts in national legislation, which should establish a common framework of
compliance with national food, feed, and food safety standards and other EU sanitary and
phytosanitary measures and legislation. In addition, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, on
October 25, 2017, approved Resolution No. 1106 of the Plan of Measures for the
Implementation of the Association Agreement between Ukraine, on the one hand, and the
European Union, the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, on the
coordination of the European and Euro-Atlantic integration Implementation of the Action Plan
to ensure an uninterrupted process of fulfilling Ukraine's commitments throughout the period
of the Agreement, availability of information on its implementation, clarity of implementation
mechanisms and interference with unfulfilled measures. In the Action Plan, paragraphs 216 to
445 relate to the implementation of the Agreement on the Activities of Sanitary and
Phytosanitary Measures in General and Food Safety.
In accordance with the implementation plan of the Association Agreement in Ukraine by
2017, a number of legislative acts have already been adopted, laying the foundations for
reforming the food safety system through the implementation of basic European principles
and practices. In particular, the Law of Ukraine 'On Basic Principles and Requirements for the
Safety and Quality of Food Products' was adopted. The introduction of innovations involves
the introduction in Ukraine of a European concept for product safety and quality management
based on a lawn-to-table approach and containing a requirement for traceability (Regulation
(EC) No 178/2002). The law sets deadlines for the gradual transition to the application by
manufacturers of procedures based on the principles of risk analysis, hazardous factors, and
control at critical points of HACCP by 2019.
Effective harmonization of national requirements for quality and safety of food products
with the requirements of the EU will promote the introduction of an effective European
system of state control of safety and quality of food products.

Keywords: legislative, regulatory, food safety, HACCP, harmonization of national requirements.

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