Moscow -- Russia's Federal Veterinary and Phyto-Sanitary Oversight Service (Rosselkhoznadzor) plans from Sep.1 to switch supplies of products that the service supervises and which are supplied from Ukraine and Moldova from veterinary certificates to the single veterinary certificates of the Customs Union.
“After the signing of the documents with the EU, these countries automatically left the CIS agreement on cooperation in the veterinary sphere, and we believe that they are to be transferred to the Customs Union veterinary certificates that we use to work with other countries,” Rosselkhoznadzor Head Sergei Dankvert said.
The letters with the proposals to hold consultations on the issue will be sent to Ukraine and Moldova on Wednesday, July 2.
The fact that Moldova permitted supplies of products from Romania, while Ukraine permitted supplies of pork from Poland, where African Swine Fever was registered, is evidence that Ukraine and Moldova are not observing the agreement, he said.
Dankvert said that supplies of products under veterinary certificates foresaw a relaxed scheme.
He said that it would take at least two months to switch to new documents.
“Our colleagues are to make Customs Union veterinary forms and hand us to delivery them to the border,” he said, adding that it is impossible to switch to the Customs Union certificates automatically.
