The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Construction considered and approved the draft law No.7151 “On Basic Requirements for Buildings and Facilities as well as Conditions to Place Construction Products on the Market Harmonized with the EU Legislation”.
BRDO experts participated in the drafting of this law.
Essentially, this draft law is the rules necessary for the further evolutionary step of the national system of technical regulation. It is based on the provisions of European rules and practices regarding placing construction products on the market – from production to use. The draft law No.7151 even introduces the legal concept of “construction product” in the regulatory framework of Ukraine for the first time.
The draft law aims to eliminate the regulatory vacuum in terminology, establish a mechanism for determining the basic requirements for buildings and essential features of technical parameters of construction products, introduce clear requirements for standard technical specifications that will be a national standard or a technical certificate.
The draft law stipulates that the main, most important requirements for buildings are the safety of people and the environment, energy efficiency and heat retention as well as the balanced use of natural resources. According to its provisions, essential features of technical parameters of construction products (resistance, durability, water permeability, etc.) will be set on the basis of already established requirements for buildings.
The draft law introduces such a modern, clear for all European producers and consumers mechanism as a Declaration of Performance. The Declaration, which will be registered by producers based on the conclusions of technical approval bodies, will stipulate that producers are responsible for the conformity of construction products with the declared technical parameters and should provide information support for the search for data on technical parameters of construction products while they are offered in the market.
The declaration can be changed only by producers and checked by all market participants. Thus, any distributor or consumer will be able to track the detailed path of a specific construction product or batch – from own apartment to the factory. This principle introduced in most European countries will allow Ukrainian producers to integrate into the European quality control system and guarantee Ukrainians protection against low-quality counterfeit products or abuses.
“The adoption of this draft law will strengthen the protection of consumer rights, introduce mechanisms for effective control over the quality of construction products and, most importantly, will remove a number of barriers for free access of Ukrainian producers to EU markets and facilitate access to markets in most countries of the world,” the Construction sector Head at the Better Regulation Delivery Office Olena Shulyak said.
For further details about the benefits, see the presentation:
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