The Bill (Reg. No.0923) envisages
improvement of the regulations of the effective Law appertaining to the quality
and safety of dairy products.
Pursuant to the Bill, "traditional dairy products include butter, cheese, fermented baked milk, sour milk, acidophilic milk, sour cream, cottage cheese, kefir produced from dairy raw material by means of established technologies with the use of ferments from pure lactid-acid and other bacterial cultures".
During the meeting of the Committee it was declared that more then 35 amendments to the bill were directed while elaborating the bill for the second reading and the majority of them were upheld.
The Committee members took into account the amendment, pursuant to which "milk, dairy raw material and dairy products produced in Ukraine and imported to the customs territory of Ukraine shall comply with the standards of quality and safety determined by Ukrainian Law".