Cabinet of Ministers abolishes Soviet sanitary standards

The Cabinet of Ministers has declared the sanitary legislation issued by the authorities of the Ukrainian SSR and the USSR invalid and not applicable in Ukraine.

This is enshrined in Order No. 94-r of January 20, 2016, published on the government’s website, Interfax-Ukraine reports.

According to the text of the document, sanitary, sanitary-hygienic, sanitary-anti-epidemic, sanitary-epidemiological, anti-epidemic, hygienic rules and regulations, state sanitary-epidemiological standards and sanitary regulations are recognized as invalid.

The Order will come into force on January 1, 2017.
As Svyatoslav Protas, acting head of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of Ukraine, explained to the agency, the order abolishes the sanitary standards of the USSR, which were adopted before 1991.

“The system of sanitary regulation was extremely overregulated, and a significant part of the former USSR acts are now irrelevant and unnecessary. For example, such acts regulating the procedure for issuing soap for miners, issued in 1923, or such acts as sanitary requirements for collective farm markets, or sanitary requirements for public toilets separately in cities and separately in rural areas, and so on,” Protas said.

At the same time, he said, most of the sanitary acts that are necessary to protect public health are currently still in effect.

Source: Ukrainska Pravda