The Committee on Industrial and Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship held the International Conference on the Market Supervision in EU Countries under the Assistance of the International Financial Corporation
12 November 2010, 14:11
Ksenia
Liapina, Deputy Chairperson of the Committee, opened
the meeting. She
declared that the conference would
represent the international experience in the sphere of market
supervision, and
discuss the problems and perspectives of the market supervision system in Ukraine.
K. Liapina emphasised that the parliament members were drafting the bill on market supervision in Ukraine. She characterized the process as "rather complicated." She stated, "Ukraine is the only post-Soviet country that preserved the soviet supervision system despite the lasting discussions on its reformation. Therefore, we would appreciate the experience of our foreign colleagues."
The technical regulation system in Ukraine is based on the principles of the centralized plan economics, and duplicates that one existing in the Soviet Union. The standards are compulsory, requiring that the production shall correspond to the quality standards, rather than to the safety of consumers. In the EU countries, safety is the fundamental requirement.
The participants of the meeting declared that the supervision system was rather burdensome and lacked effectiveness.
Among the principal issues of the industrial production regulation in Ukraine, the participants of the meeting singled out duplication of functions; obsoleteness of the legislation norms and normative documents, and their non-correspondence to the international and European standards; compulsory implementation of the standards by the national producers; excessive interference with the producer´s activity; lack of risk-oriented approach to the implementation of the supervision and control.
Implementing the European market supervision system, Ukraine will gain a number of benefits, the speakers are convinced.
During the international conference, the participants focused on the bill "On Market Supervision and Production Control" (Reg. No.6694) adopted in the first reading on October 5, 2010. The bill offers a legal and organizational basis for the market supervision and production control in the activity of the relevant state bodies to provide safety quality of market goods and alter the state supervision over the standards observance. It implements the European principle, pursuant to which the production put into circulation and spread within the market shall undergo the market supervision. The bill contains principles on the grounds for, objects and peculiarities of the control conduction of the producers and distributors.
The
bill introduces a new system of control of the imported production that has not
been supervised by other control bodies in the course of transportation through
the customs border of Ukraine.
The Parliament also adopted the Bill "On Prohibition of Dangerous Goods Circulation in Ukraine" (Reg. No.7094) that lays the legal and organizational principles of prohibiting dangerous goods circulation in Ukraine. The bill defines the terms ‘safe goods´ and ‘dangerous goods.´ Thus, the goods can not be regarded as dangerous only because of the capacity to attain a higher safety level or market availability of other goods with a lower level of danger.
If the producers get the information that the goods in circulation are dangerous for consumers or are incompatible with the common safety requirements, they are obliged to notify the agency in charge of market regulation, reporting on the action for maintaining safety of these goods.
The participants of the meeting discussed the action plan on the technical regulation system reforms.
The participants of the conference are convinced that implementation of the market supervision system is the fundamental issue in the system of technical regulation. Adoption of the relevant bills is essential to alleviate the business conditions, and arrange a friendly investment climate to facilitate sustainable economic development.