UKR/129
WTO/TBT
UA Ukraine
  • 65 - Landwirtschaft
  • 67 - Lebensmitteltechnologie
2017-12-05
2017-10-06

Food, feed, feed additives, veterinary drugs produced from genetically modified organisms.

The Draft Law of Ukraine "On amendments to some laws of Ukraine on the traceability and labelling of genetically modified organisms and the circulation, traceability and labelling of food, feed and/or feed additives, veterinary drugs produced from genetically modified organisms" (hereinafter referred to as the Draft Law). (8 page(s), in Ukrainian)

The Draft Law provides the following amendments:

− definition of the terms, in particular, "traceability", "unique identifier", "operator", "the first stage of the placing on the market of the product", "pre-packaged products" etc;

− for pre-packaged products consisting of, or containing GMOs, operators shall ensure that the words "This product contains GMOs" or "This product contains genetically modified [name of organism(s)]" appear on a label; for non-pre-packaged products offered to the final consumer the words "This product contains GMOs" or 'This product contains genetically modified [name of organism(s)]" shall appear on, or in connection with, the display of the product;

− exceptions from the appropriate labelling requirement of pre-packaged and non-pre-packaged products shall be granted to market operators only when traces of GMO in the products do not exceed the legally established thresholds (less than 0.9 %) provided that these traces of GMO are adventitious or technically unavoidable;

− adoption of the provision according to which the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection carries out state supervision (control) in the field of safety and specific indicators of food quality over the observance of biological and genetic safety measures in respect of: food products, feed, feed additives produced from GMOs by the criterion of the presence in those of only registered GMO sources and agricultural plants and animals in creating, studying and practical using GMOs in open systems at enterprises, institutions and organizations irrespective of their subordination and ownership. The Draft Law applies to GMOs, food, feed and/or feed additives, veterinary drugs produced from GMOs, which have undergone state registration in accordance with the established procedure. Unregistered GMOs as well as food, feed and/or feed additives made from genetically modified organisms are not subject to this Draft Law and shall not be placed on the market. Labelling will not apply to food, feed and/or feed additives which comprise the material that contains, consists of or produced from GMOs in a proportion less than 0.9% of the food or feed ingredients, ingredients of feed additives considered individually or of food or feed consisting of a single ingredient, provided that the presence is adventitious or technically unavoidable.

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