The Ukrainian Manufacturers of Transparent Structures (UMTS) Association has completed the formation of a pool of ten companies that will provide annual funding for the adoption of European EN standards as national standards of Ukraine. This was reported by the UMTS Association.
On 23 July 2026, at the UMTS Association’s General Meeting, the companies signed a Memorandum of Cooperation on implementing European standards into Ukraine’s national regulatory framework. Seven companies confirmed their readiness to join on that day: Axor Industry, BK Maxibud Engineering, Winkhaus Ukraine, KMD Facade Solutions, Miroplast (WDS), VELUX Ukraine and Reynaers Aluminium.
On 3 August 2026, the UMTS Association and profine Ukraine officially signed the memorandum.
On 12 August 2026, the ninth and tenth companies, VEKA Ukraine and VBH Ukraine, joined the initiative.
The Association announced that the formation of the target pool of ten Ukrainian and international companies had been completed.
The signatory companies will provide annual funding for the translation, technical review and adoption of priority European standards. Each company undertakes to contribute EUR 2,000 per year to this work and to assign its own technical specialist to participate in the technical committee. The total annual budget for this work exceeds UAH 1 million. The Association will administer the process, from planning the work to liaising with standardisation bodies.
The next stage is to agree on a list of priority standards and establish the technical committee. The Association plans to carry out this work in cooperation with the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine and the national standardisation body, the Ukrainian Scientific Research and Training Centre for Standardisation, Certification and Quality (SE UkrNDNC).
Mykhailo Orlenko, Executive Director of the Association Ukrainian Manufacturers of Transparent Structures, said: ‘Standards are an inconspicuous and unpopular subject, but they are what determine what windows, glass and façades will be like in the buildings we construct and rebuild. For the first time, the industry has a shared financial and expert basis for systematic work on standards. I am convinced that it is through steps like these that we are bringing Ukraine closer to accession to the European.’
The memorandum remains open to other participants in the window market. Companies in the industry can join the initiative.
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According to data presented by Mr Orlenko at the UMTS General Meeting, the Association analysed the European regulatory framework and identified 23 CEN technical committees whose work needs to be monitored in the context of the industry. The Association counted 184 standards in the work programmes of these committees.
At the same time, according to UMTS, the pace at which Ukraine’s regulatory framework is being updated is lagging behind that of Europe. For example, over three years, two relevant European committees, CEN/TC 33 and CEN/TC 129, adopted or updated 31 standards. Over the same period, Ukraine’s TC 300 ‘Windows and Doors’ and TC 313 ‘Residential Construction’ adopted ONE standard.
Another problem is associated with the bulk adoption of European normative documents in Ukraine at the end of 2022. At that time, the national standardisation body adopted more than 20,000 European standards by a single order. According to UMTS, this resulted, in some cases, in different editions of standards covering the same subject remaining in force simultaneously. One example is DSTU EN 1627 on the burglar resistance of window constructions: the 2011 and 2021 versions remain in force in parallel (adopted in 2014 and 2022 respectively), because the previous version was not withdrawn when the new one was adopted.
This can create ambiguity for manufacturers when declaring product characteristics.