WORLD TRADE RESTRICTED WT/ACC/SPEC/UKR/5/Rev.3 24 August 2005 ORGANIZATION (05-3737) Working Party on the Accession of Ukraine DRAFT REPORT OF THE WORKING PARTY ON THE ACCESSION OF UKRAINE TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION Revision WT/ACC/SPEC/UKR/5/Rev.3 Page i TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................1 DOCUMENTATION PROVIDED ......................................................................................................1 INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS....................................................................................................2 II. ECONOMIC POLICIES..........................................................................................................3 - Monetary and Fiscal Policy......................................................................................................3 - Foreign Exchange and Payments ............................................................................................5 - Investment Regime....................................................................................................................8 - State Ownership and Privatization .......................................................................................10 - Pricing Policies ........................................................................................................................14 - Competition Policy..................................................................................................................21 III. FRAMEWORK FOR MAKING AND ENFORCING POLICIES....................................23 IV. POLICIES AFFECTING TRADE IN GOODS ...................................................................27 - Trading Rights ........................................................................................................................27 A. IMPORT REGULATION......................................................................................................33 - Ordinary customs duties ........................................................................................................33 - Other duties and charges levied on imports but not on domestic production...................34 - Tariff rate quotas, tariff exemptions.....................................................................................35 - Fees and charges for services rendered.................................................................................39 - Application of Internal Taxes on Imports ............................................................................44 - Quantitative import restrictions, including prohibitions, quotas and import licensing systems .....................................................................................................................49 - Customs valuation...................................................................................................................55 - Rules of origin .........................................................................................................................58 - Other customs formalities ......................................................................................................61 - Preshipment inspection ..........................................................................................................62 - Anti-dumping, countervailing duties, safeguard regimes ...................................................62 B. EXPORT REGULATIONS ...................................................................................................66 - Customs tariffs, fees and charges for services rendered, application of internal taxes to exports........................................................................................................................66 - Export restrictions ..................................................................................................................71 - Export subsidies ......................................................................................................................76 C. INTERNAL POLICIES AFFECTING FOREIGN TRADE IN GOODS .........................76 - Industrial policy, including subsidies....................................................................................76 - Technical barriers to trade, sanitary and phytosanitary measures ...................................81 WT/ACC/SPEC/UKR/5/Rev.3 Page ii - Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures ..................................................................................91 - Trade-related investment measures ......................................................................................95 - State-trading entities...............................................................................................................97 - Free zones, special economic areas........................................................................................99 - Government-mandated counter-trade and barter.............................................................104 - Government procurement....................................................................................................106 - Trade in civil aircraft............................................................................................................108 - Transit....................................................................................................................................108 - Agricultural policies..............................................................................................................110 (a) Imports...................................................................................................................................110 (b) Exports...................................................................................................................................110 (c) Internal policies.....................................................................................................................111 - Textiles regime ......................................................................................................................116 V. TRADE-RELATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REGIME.....................................116 - General...................................................................................................................................116 (a) Industrial property protection.............................................................................................116 (b) Responsible agencies for policy formulation and implementation...................................117 (c) Participation in international intellectual property agreements ......................................118 (d) Application of national and MFN treatment to foreign nationals....................................119 (e) Fees and taxes........................................................................................................................119 2. Substantive Standards of Protection, Including Procedures for the Acquisition and Maintenance of Intellectual Property Rights..............................................................120 (a) Copyright and related rights................................................................................................120 (b) Trademarks, including service marks.................................................................................121 (c) Geographical indications, including appellations of origin...............................................122 (d) Industrial designs..................................................................................................................124 (e) Patents....................................................................................................................................124 (f) Plant variety protection........................................................................................................125 (g) Layout designs of integrated circuits ..................................................................................126 (h) Requirements on undisclosed information, including trade secrets and test data..........126 3. Measures to Control Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights.............................................128 4. Enforcement ..........................................................................................................................128 (a) General...................................................................................................................................128 (b) Civil judicial procedures and remedies...............................................................................130 (c) Provisional measures ............................................................................................................131 (d) Administrative procedures and remedies...........................................................................135 WT/ACC/SPEC/UKR/5/Rev.3 Page iii (e) Special border measures.......................................................................................................136 (f) Criminal procedures.............................................................................................................138 - Policies affecting trade in services .......................................................................................139 - Transparency ........................................................................................................................144