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UkraineProposed measure, open for comments

Draft Order of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food

Official title

Draft Order of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine 'On Approval of the List of Substances Having a Hormonal or Thyrostatic Action and of Beta-Agonists Prohibited for Use in Stockfarming'

Ukraine notified this proposed SPS measure to the WTO on 30 October 2026. Comments are open until 29 December 2026.

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At a glance

Products

Live animals; meat and edible meat offal; fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates; dairy produce, birds’ eggs and edible products of animal origin not elsewhere specified or included; animal fats and oils and their cleavage products, prepared edible fats and animal waxes; prepare

HS codes
  • 01 · Animals; live
    • 0101 Live horses, asses, mules and hinnies
    • 0102 Live bovine animals
    • 0103 Live swine
    • 0104 Live sheep and goats
    • 0105 Live poultry, 'fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls'
  • 02 · Meat and edible meat offal
    • 02
All 33 codes
  • 03 · Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
    • 0302 Fish, fresh or chilled (excl. fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304)
    • 0303 Frozen fish (excl. fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304)
    • 0304 Fish fillets and other fish meat, whether or not minced, fresh, chilled or frozen
    • 0305 Fish, fit for human consumption, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, fit for human consumption, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process
    • 0306 Crustaceans, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine, even smoked, incl. crustaceans in shell cooked by steaming or…
    • 0307 Molluscs, fit for human consumption, even smoked, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine
  • 04 · Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
    • 0401 Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
    • 0402 Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
    • 0403 Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or flavoured or containing…
    • 0404 Whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter; products consisting of natural milk constituents, whether or not…
    • 0405 Butter, incl. dehydrated butter and ghee, and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads
    • 0406 Cheese and curd
    • 0407 Birds' eggs, in shell, fresh, preserved or cooked
    • 0408 Birds' eggs, not in shell, and egg yolks, fresh, dried, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, moulded, frozen or otherwise preserved, whether or not…
    • 0410 Insects, turtles' eggs, birds' nests and other edible products of animal origin, n.e.s.
  • 15 · Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
    • 1501 Pig fat, incl. lard, and poultry fat, rendered or otherwise extracted (excl. lard stearin and lard oil)
    • 1502 Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats (excl. oil and oleostearin)
    • 1503 Lard stearin, lard oil, oleostearin, oleo-oil and tallow oil, not emulsified or mixed or otherwise prepared.
    • 1504 Fats and oils and their fractions of fish or marine mammals, whether or not refined (excl. chemically modified)
    • 1506 Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified.
    • 1516 Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether or…
    • 1517 Margarine, other edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils and edible fractions of different fats or oils (excl. fats, oils and…
    • 1518 Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert…
  • 16 · Meat, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or insects; preparations thereof
    • 16 PREPARATIONS OF MEAT, OF FISH, OF CRUSTACEANS, MOLLUSCS OR OTHER AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES, OR OF INSECTS
  • 21 · Miscellaneous edible preparations
    • 2104 Soups and broths and preparations therefor; food preparations consisting of finely homogenised mixtures of two or more basic ingredients such as meat, fish…
    • 2105 Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa.
    • 2106 Food preparations, n.e.s.
Notifying member
Ukraine
Status
Proposed measure, open for comments
Objectives
  • Food safety
  • Animal health
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/UKR/284
Keywords
Animal health, Food safety, Human health

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Open until 29 December 2026
Proposed adoption
To be determined.
Proposed entry into force
The Order shall enter into force on the day of its official publication.

How to comment

Comments on a notification go from government to government. If this measure affects your exports, send your comments to your country's WTO SPS enquiry point before 29 December 2026, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/UKR/284 and how the measure affects your products. Your enquiry point forwards them to Ukraine.

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What the notification says

The draft Order proposes to approve the List of substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action and of beta-agonists prohibited for use in stockfarming.

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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