Draft Order approves the procedure for establishing the mechanism and special labelling requirements of foodstuff for which the indication of country of origin or place of origin is mandatory. Such food products are meat of bovine animals, fresh, chilled and frozen, edible offal of bovine animals, fresh or chilled, and natural honey.
It is also foreseen that established mandatory labelling procedure and its requirements will also apply to the List of food product that were specified in Annex 7 of the earlier adopted Law of Ukraine “On Consumer Information on Food”. Thus, mandatory labelling rules will also apply to meat of swine, sheep or goat, fresh, chilled and frozen, meat and edible offal of the poultry of heading 0105, fresh, chilled and frozen.
The purpose for developing such measures is to protect population from zoonotic diseases, prevent fraud and unfair competition.
A separate notification was also made in accordance with SPS Agreement.