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Government Decree No. 2221 “On conducting an experiment on the territory of the Russian Federation on labelling with means of identification of edible vegetable oils packaged in consumer packaging.”

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Document type
Regulation
Date
2023
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Food & nutrition
Keyword
Packaging/labelling Oils/oilseeds/fats Processing/handling Consumer protection Internal trade International trade Fraud Data collection/reporting Access-to-information
Geographical area
Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Abstract

This Government Decree establishes the procedure for conducting an experiment on labelling edible vegetable oils packaged in consumer packaging by identification means on the territory of the Russian Federation. The objectives of the experiment are: (a) determination and coordination with the federal executive bodies authorized to ensure the conduct of the experiment, as well as with manufacturers, importers of edible vegetable oils, wholesale and retail trade organizations of the composition of information about the product, allowing one to uniquely identify the trade unit of edible vegetable oils; (b) testing in relation to edible vegetable oils the possibility of using technologies for applying identification means, determining the composition of the information contained in identification means, and determining the optimal methods for labelling products with identification means based on the possibility of using appropriate technological solutions; (c) testing the completeness and sufficiency of labelling mechanisms for identifying edible vegetable oils to ensure counteraction to the illegal import, production and circulation of edible vegetable oils, including counterfeit ones, as well as to increase the collection of taxes and customs duties; (d) organizing effective interaction between government bodies, including control bodies, and participants in the circulation of edible vegetable oils; (e) determination of the technical capabilities of the information system used for the purpose of conducting the experiment, and its further development, as well as its information interaction with state information systems of federal executive bodies authorized to ensure the conduct of the experiment; (f) the participants in the circulation of edible vegetable oils taking part in the experiment initially fill the subsystem of the national catalog of labelled goods of the information system with data about the product that allows them to uniquely identify the trade unit of edible vegetable oil; (g) development of proposals to amend the legislation of the Russian Federation regulating the circulation of edible vegetable oils; and (h) preparation of proposals for determining the codes of the unified Commodity Nomenclature for Foreign Economic Activity of the Eurasian Economic Union and the codes of the All-Russian Product Classifier by type of economic activity of edible vegetable oils, subject to mandatory labelling by means of identification.

Full text
Russian
Website
publication.pravo.gov.ru