Excessive burden on businesses or “well-being” of the population? We are convinced that receiving sanitary and epidemiological certificates for goods imported into Ukraine is just about the last one!
For example, moccasin shoes require one certificate, and sneakers – another one! Each certificate costs from 3 to 15 thousand hryvnias, and if 50 companies import the same product, each of them should receive a certificate, and in addition, provide a sample of products for examination on non-repayable terms. Such rules are particularly burdensome for small and medium-sized businesses, and in general, they result in spending millions. At the same time, the imported goods, for the most part, already have similar certificates from the EU. Ukrainian officials probably believe “that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”. As a result, companies bear additional costs worth millions including them in a price paid by consumers.
To facilitate the cross-border trade, it would be appropriate to allow using certificates provided by authorized EU institutions in Ukraine as well. In this case, the opinions of BRDO experts and e-commerce market representatives coincide.
Today, the BRDO Office is launching a questionnaire to measure real business costs that result from this burdensome procedure as part of the review of e-commerce market regulation. By obtaining these data, we will seek to cancel ineffective regulation!
You can answer our questions at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLJ1ThUiPMUpkcjIMgNTEkOvRy3x_RQvJODL8LfZJCDKhnhg/viewform
Find more information about the results of the rolling review of the e-commerce market and a range of barriers that hinder the market development at https://regulation.gov.ua/book/117-zelena-kniga-rinok-elektronnoi-komercii