Results to date

• A comparative analysis of the Regulation (EC) No178/2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety with the Ukrainian legislation in this field has been carried out
• Specific recommendations on bringing the Ukrainian food legislation in conformity with the Regulation (EC) No178/2002 have been elaborated
• A comparative analysis of the Regulation (EC) No852/2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs with the Ukrainian legislation in this field has been carried out
• A draft Law “On introducing changes to several legal acts of Ukraine related to food safety” has been developed. It envisages changes to 12 legal acts and contains many provisions aimed at harmonization of Ukrainian food legislation with EU food safety requirements
• Specific recommendations on bringing the Ukrainian food legislation in conformity with the Regulation (EC) No852/2004 have been elaborated
• A comparative analysis of the Regulation (EC) No853/2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin with the Ukrainian legislation in this field has been started
• The Country Profile of Ukraine on Food and Feed Safety, Animal Health, Animal Welfare and Plant Health has been updated
• A report of research findings “National Food Control System in Ukraine and Proposals for its Reforming Based on European Standards” has been prepared
• Food Safety Policy Paper has been prepared to promote improvements in the State food safety control system has been prepared and a Costs – Benefits Analysis of the Policy Options has been carried out
• Experts of the Component cooperate actively with the state authorities involved in the process of reforming food safety system in Ukraine. Development of the draft law “On introduction of changes into some legislative acts (regarding issues on food safety)” has been started in close cooperation with the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, the State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine and the Economic Reforms Coordination Centre under the President of Ukraine. Assistance in budgeting the Institutional Reform Plan in the Sphere of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Plan) has been provided to the Working Group under the Main Department of Civil Service of Ukraine; there were two round table meetings on the SPS Plan budgeting (18, 22 July 2011), participation in which has been taken by representatives of the EU Delegation, the Economic Reforms Coordination Centre, the Centre for Adaptation of the Civil Service to the Standards of the EU, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, the State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine, the State Scientific and Research Institute for Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary and Sanitary Expertise, the Ministry of Health Protection of Ukraine, the State Sanitary and Epidemiologic Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, the State Customs Service of Ukraine, the National Codex Alimentarius Commission of Ukraine and the National Agency for Accreditation of Ukraine.
• Following recommendations of the State Committee for Veterinary Medicine of Ukraine (NOW THE State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine - SVPS) the Project selected 15 enterprises in the food safety pilot regions where HACCP and traceability system would be implemented under the Project advisory support. The project experts visited the selected enterprises for pre-evaluation purposes and now on a regular basis the experts conduct audits of pre-requisite programmes and HACCP programmes implementation. HACCP-teams have been created at every enterprise which cooperate directly with the project experts and take part in the food safety training programme, which is developed on audit results. The project experts have developed and provided the pilot enterprises with model documentation on HACCP system and pre-requisite programmes. To ensure effective sharing of information and experience, the project experts have been working on development and implementation of HACCP and traceability systems in collaboration with regional representatives of the state authorities which are responsible for inspecting each of the said 15 enterprises, namely, inspectors of main departments for veterinary medicine, sanitary doctors in food hygiene and specialists of the state enterprise “Agency for Animal Identification and Registration” (AAIR)
• The existing system of identification and registration of bovines, sheep, goats, pigs and horses as well as the institutional structure and responsibilities between involved institutions has been assessed. Recommendations on further development / improvement of the system have been prepared including poultry identification and registration and involvement of the veterinary service as well as the veterinary militia in the process
• The Animal Identification and Registration Working Group has been created; consisting of representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ukraine (MAF), the State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine, the SE “Agency for Animal Identification and Registration” and the Department of Veterinary Militia on Quarantine Veterinary Measures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (Vetmilitia); the purpose of the Working Group is to improve coordination of activities of the involved state institutions
• In the food safety pilot regions a series of training seminars and workshops has been held for representatives of the SVPS, the AAIR, sanitary doctors in food hygiene as well as for representatives of the pilot enterprises:
  • Introduction to Food Safety in the European Union (July 2009, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, Poltava;
  • Practical Aspects of HACCP System (April – May 2010, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, Poltava);
  • Animal Identification and Registration. Traceability. Beef Labelling (March 2010, Lviv, Cherkasy, Kyiv);
  • Registration of Poultry Farms. Labelling of Eggs (March 2010, Kyiv);
  • Practical Aspects of HACCP System (October – November 2010, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, Poltava);
  • Introduction to Food Safety in the European Union (September – December 2010, Sumy, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Lviv, Poltava);
  • Official Control (December 2010, February 2011, Lviv, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava, Cherkasy);
  • Practical Aspects of HACCP System (March – April 2011, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk);
  • Official Control (April 2011, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk);
  • Practical Aspects of HACCP System (May 2011, Lviv);
  • Official Control (May 2011, Lviv, Cherkasy, Ivano-Frankivsk);
  • Official Control (June 2011, Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava);
  • Practical Aspects of HACCP System (June 2011, Poltava);
  • Inspections and Audits. Case Study (October 2011, Poltava, Cherkasy);
  • Inspections and Audits. Case Study (November – December 2011, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernihiv, Kyiv)
• Five-day Training for Trainers and one-day Training for Trainers Follow-up has been conducted (March 2009 and February 2010 respectively). The events were attended by senior management of the SCVM, the AAIR and regional veterinary laboratories of the food safety pilot regions
• Five study visits have taken place:
  • to Italy with a purpose to familiarize the Ukrainian delegation with activities of the European Food Safety Authority (Parma) and the regional veterinary services in Pescara (25 – 31 May 2009). Representatives of the SCVM, the AAIR, the state regional laboratories of veterinary medicine, the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine took part in the study visit;
  • to Portugal with a purpose to familiarize the Ukrainian delegation with activities of the state veterinary services at the national and regional level and a food safety control system (6 – 14 June 2010, Porto – Lisbon). Representatives of the SCVM, the SE “AAIR”, the state regional laboratories of veterinary medicine, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine and the Ministry of Health Protection of Ukraine took part in the study visit;
  • to the UK with a purpose to learn about a food safety system in the country and to participate in the open meeting of the Board of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) (14 – 22 September 2010, Aberdeen – Edinburgh – London). Representatives of the SCVM and the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine took part in the study visit;
  • to Ireland and the Northern Ireland with a purpose to visit the EU Food and Veterinary Office (FVO), the Food Safety Authority of Ireland in Dublin, and the UK Food Standards Agency in Belfast (04 – 12 July 2011). Representatives of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, the State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine, the SE “AAIR” and the State Sanitary and Epidemiologic Service of Ukraine took part in the study visit;
  • to the UK with a purpose to participate in the HACCP training (13 – 15 September 2011), organised by the UK food processing and food safety research institution “Campden BRI” (Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire). The Ukrainian group comprised three Ukrainian civil servants from the State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine and the State Sanitary and Epidemiologic Service of Ukraine.
• Assistance was given to the organisation of training visits within the EU TAIEX Programmes to: 1) Slovakia for three representatives of the AAIR. During the visit the participants were familiarised with the animal identification and registration system in the country, and visited the Slovakian Ministry of Agriculture, the State Veterinary Service, and the Animal Registration Agency as well as animal holdings and animal slaughter houses; 2) Bulgaria for three representatives of the SCVM. During this visit the participants learned about the Bulgarian experience in the development and introduction of the HACCP and traceability system
• Contacts with a number of donor organisations and projects which deal with food safety issues in Ukraine have been established. The International Food Safety Donors’ Coordination Working Group has been created. Meetings of the IFSDCWG are convened monthly. As of today there have been 15 meetings
• New laboratory equipment and sample collection vehicles have been purchased by the EU and delivered to the laboratories in the food safety pilot regions (the State Scientific-Research Institute on Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary and Sanitary Examination (Kyiv), the State Scientific-Research Control Institute for Veterinary Medicine and Feed Additives (Lviv) and Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, Poltava, Cherkasy regional state laboratories of veterinary medicine). Technical specification for the laboratory equipment and other tender documentation has been prepared by the project experts.
• The English – Ukrainian Veterinary Glossary has been prepared and published
• 38 EU food and veterinary legal acts have been translated from English into Ukrainian and approved as official translations by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.
• Digests of the DG SANCO e-newsletters are translated into Ukrainian and circulated weekly by email.

Legislation

• COMMISSION DECISION of 10 April 1992 on animal health conditions and veterinary certification for temporary admission of registered horses
• COMMISSION DECISION of 5 February 1993 on animal health conditions and veterinary certification for imports of equidae for slaughter
• COMMISSION DECISION of 5 February 1993 on animal health conditions and veterinary certification for imports of registered equidae and equidae for breeding and production
• COMMISSION DECISION of 29 April 2004 laying down animal and public health and veterinary certifications conditions for introduction in the Community of heat-treated milk, milk-based products and raw milk intended for human consumption
• COMMISSION DECISION of 6 November 2006 repealing certain implementing acts concerning food hygiene and health conditions for the production and placing on the market of certain products of animal origin intended for human consumption
• COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 318/2007 of 23 March 2007 laying down animal health conditions for imports of certain birds into the Community and the quarantine conditions thereof
• COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 543/2008 of 16 June 2008 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards the marketing standards for poultrymeat
• COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2073/2005 of 15 November 2005 on microbiological criteria for foodstuffs
• COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 798/2008 of 8 August 2008 laying down a list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the Community and the veterinary certification requirements
• COUNCIL DECISION of 21 December 1976 drawing up a list of third countries or parts of third countries, and laying down animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions, for importation into the Community of certain live animals and their fresh meat
• COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 15 October 1990 on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in, and imports from third countries of, poultry and hatching eggs
• COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 92/65/EEC of 13 July 1992 laying down animal health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of animals, semen, ova and embryos not subject to animal health requirements laid down in specific Community rules referred to in Annex A (I) to Directive 90/425/EEC
• COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2001/110/EC of 20 December 2001 relating to honey
• COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2008/71/EC of 15 July 2008 on the identification and registration of pigs
• COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation)
• REGULATION (EC) No 999/2001 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

Methodological Guidelines

• National Food Control system in Ukraine and Proposals for its Reforming Based on European Standards
• Country profile of Ukraine on food and feed safety, animal health, animal welfare and plant health
• English-Ukrainian Veterinary Glossary

Reports

• I Mission Report of the Veterinary Food Safety Expert
• II Mission Report of the Veterinary Food Safety Expert
• III Mission Report of the Veterinary Food Safety Expert
• IV Mission Report of the Veterinary Food Safety Expert
• V Mission Report of the Veterinary Food Safety Expert
• VI Mission Report of the Veterinary Food Safety Expert
• VII Mission Report of the Veterinary Food Safety Expert
• I Mission Report of the Animal Identification and Registration Expert
• II Mission Report of the Animal Identification and Registration Expert
• III Mission Report of the Animal Identification and Registration Expert
• IV Mission Report of the Animal Identification and Registration Expert

Comparative Analysis

• Table of concordance of Ukrainian food legislation with requirements of the Regulation (EC) No178/2002
• Recommendations for harmonization of Ukrainian food legislation with requirements of the Regulation (EC) No178/2002
• Table of concordance of Ukrainian food legislation with requirements of the Regulation (EC) No852/2004
• Recommendations for harmonization of Ukrainian food legislation with requirements of the Regulation (EC) No852/2004

Seminars & Workshops Presentations

• Introduction to Food Safety in the European Union
• Practical Aspects of HACCP System
• Animal Identification and Registration. Traceability. Beef Labelling
• Official Controls
• Inspections and Audits. Case Study