KIEV, May 29 – The Economic Development and Trade Ministry has called on businesses and all interested parties to participate in Ukraine's switch to European and international standards.

The ministry said that Ukraine's membership of the World Trade Organization and the provisions of the Association Agreement with the EU foresee the adoption of international and European standards in the country as national standards with the synchronous scrapping of GOST (Soviet) standards drawn up before 1992. GOST standards which are currently in effect create extra technical barriers to trade and they will be scrapped this year under the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers.