WTO notification · SPS
UkraineProposed measure, may since have been adopted
Official title
Law of Ukraine No. 4718 'On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine Aimed at Aligning Regulation in the Fields of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Welfare and Feed with European Union Legislation'
Ukraine notified this proposed SPS measure to the WTO on 2 February 2026. The comment period closed on 3 April 2026.
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Veterinary drugs, animal feed
The comment period closed on 3 April 2026. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/UKR/257; it can take them up with Ukraine.
Find your country's enquiry point on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)The Law introduces amendments to Ukraine's legislation aimed at aligning sanitary and veterinary measures with the European Union acquis in the fields of animal health, animal welfare, food and feed safety and official veterinary controls. In particular, the Law provides for: - improving measures to ensure animal health, including the modernization of financing mechanisms for veterinary and sanitary measures and enhancement of epizootic surveillance and biosecurity systems; - improving state veterinary and sanitary control (supervision) over the production, registration, circulation and use of veterinary drugs; - introduction of EU-aligned animal welfare standards, including requirements related to keeping, transport and humane slaughter of farm animals; - regulation of feed and feed additives in order to ensure a high level of protection of animal and human health; - restrictions on the use of antimicrobial veterinary drugs, including the prohibition of their use for growth promotion and routine prophylactic purposes, in line with EU approaches. The adopted measures aim to protect human and animal health, prevent the spread of animal diseases, ensure the safe circulation of products subject to sanitary and veterinary control, and facilitate international trade through alignment with EU sanitary and phytosanitary rules.
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