Transcript Challenges in target setting in Ukraine Kyryl Sereda Workshop on Water and Health Bucharest 15 May 2008

Challenges in target
setting in Ukraine
Kyryl Sereda
Workshop on Water and Health
Bucharest 15 May 2008
Ecological situation and conditions of potable water
in Ukraine
Ukraine has ratified the
Protocol on Water and Health
on 9 July 2003 №1066-IV
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According to the Protocol on Water and Health, each
Party (within 2 years of becoming a Party) should
establish and publish targets referred to in paragraph 2
of article 6, and target dates for achieving them.
The Ukraine has not yet established national targets and
lacks appropriate methodology on how to achieve this
obligation of Protocol: (a) Access to drinking water for
everyone; (b) Provision of sanitation for everyone.
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In accordance with the article 19 Law of Ukraine “About
the international agreements of Ukraine” № 1906 from
29/06/2004 it is highlighted that Ukraine is under an
obligation to execute international rules even if these
rules are not consistent with Ukrainian legislation.
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Standard (adopted in 1982) # 2874-82 “Drinking water. Sanitary
requirements and quality control” is the State standard currently in
force to regulate drinking water quality. This includes standards for
physical properties, chemical and bacteriological composition of
water used for the drinking water supply.
 In order to harmonize national water quality standards with
recommendations and standards of the WHO, the Ministry of Health
of Ukraine adopted the State sanitary rules and standards “Drinking
water. Hygienic requirements of quality of water for centralized
economic-drinking water supply” (1996). These rules provide
stricter approaches for current and new indicators of water quality.
These standards include 56 parameters instead of the 28
indicators in Standard # 2874-82.
But today there is no appropriate normative-legal, organizationaltechnical and technical-economical basis for the Standard
implementation.
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On 3 March 2005 Ukraine adopted the National Program
“Drinking Water of Ukraine” for 2006-2020 (Law of
Ukraine). The first step is to improve normative-legal and
scientific-technical basis in the drinking water supply
sector to meet EU standards.
According to the main tasks of the National Program
should be developed and adopted a new State Standard
of Ukraine for drinking water in order to harmonize
national standards to EU standards
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A new State Standard of Ukraine # 4808-2007 “Sources
of centralized drinking water supply. Hygienic and
ecological requirements to the water quality and rules of
a choice” has been adopted (2007) and will enter into
force in 2009.
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Also a new State Standard for the Ukraine “Drinking
water. Requirements and quality control” has been
developed but has not yet been adopted.
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In Ukraine is prepared first draft of project proposal
“Drawing up the targets and target dates in Ukraine
according to the article 6 of the Protocol on Water
and Health” in a close collaboration with the secretariats
of UNECE and WHO/Euro.
Ministry for Environmental Protection of Ukraine has
planned in 2008 co-financing of this project in volume of
15.000 USD
OSCE (ukrainian office) plans in 2009 co-financing of
this project in volume of 100.000 USD
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