KIEV, Aug. 26 – A total of 5,000 standards are to be drawn up and approved by 2020 to harmonize the Ukrainian standard system with the European one.

This is stipulated in the technical regulation system development strategy for the period until 2020 approved by cabinet resolution No. 844 of August 19.

According to the strategy, its goal is to modernize the Ukrainian economy and provide for competitiveness of Ukrainian products via gradual integration of Ukraine into the EU market, overcome technical barriers in trade between Ukraine and the EU and strengthen its positions on the global market thanks to the recognition of the technical regulation system of Ukraine on the European and international levels.