According to the Law of Ukraine No. 1193-VII “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Reducing the Number of Permitting Documents”, the state registration of technical specifications (TU) for products and changes to them has been cancelled. State enterprises belonging to the sphere of management of the Ministry of Economic Development can provide advisory and methodological assistance in the development and verification of technical specifications exclusively at the request of economic entities. Article 16 of Law No. 1315-VII “On Standardization” stipulates that: enterprises, institutions and organizations have the right in their respective fields of activity and taking into account their economic and professional needs to organize and perform standardization work, in particular:
• to develop, adopt, verify, revise and cancel standards, codes of established practice, technical specifications (TU) and changes to them, establish procedures for their development, adoption, verification, revision, cancellation and application;
• apply the standards, codes of established practice and technical specifications (TU) adopted by them;
• to create and maintain funds of regulatory documents and issue catalogs of regulatory documents to ensure their activities and information exchange;
• to issue and distribute the standards, codes of established practice and technical specifications (TU) adopted by them, documents of relevant specialized international standardization organizations, of which they are members or with which they cooperate on the basis of the provisions of such organizations or relevant agreements;
• standards, codes of established practice and technical specifications (TU) adopted by enterprises, institutions and organizations are applied on a voluntary basis.