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Governmental Decree No. 817 validating the Regulation for conducting audit of laboratories of foreign countries for testing seeds of agricultural plants to confirm the competence of such laboratories, methods and results of research and the frequency of its conduct.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Document type
Regulation
Date
2023
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Cultivated plants
Keyword
Planting material/seeds Crops/grasses Research International relations/cooperation Data collection/reporting Access-to-information Offences/penalties Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Plant production
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
Entry into force notes
This Governmental Decree enters into force on 1 September 2023.
Abstract

Regulation for conducting audit of laboratories of foreign countries for testing seeds of agricultural plants to confirm the competence of such laboratories, methods and results of research and the frequency of its conduct (with the exception of laboratories of states that are members of the Eurasian Economic Union). For the purposes of this Regulation the definition foreign laboratories refers to laboratories of foreign countries for testing seeds of agricultural plants with accreditation of accreditation bodies - signatories of mutual recognition agreements, International Organization for Laboratory Accreditation (ILAC) and/or the Asia-Pacific Association for Accreditation (APAC), the signatory of which is the Federal Accreditation Service. The audit is carried out by officials of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision (supervisory authority) by agreement with the authorized bodies of foreign states. The grounds for conducting an audit by the supervisory authority are: (a) receipt by the supervisory authority of an arbitrary application form of the authorized body of a foreign state for an audit (application) with information attached in accordance with the form according to Appendix No. 1; (b) receipt of information about violations by the supervisory authority in the activities of foreign laboratories received from authorized bodies of foreign states; (c) receipt by the supervisory authority from the federal state information system in the field of seed production of agricultural crops of information about unreliable data in the issued foreign laboratories documents containing information on indicators of varietal and sowing (planting) qualities of seeds of agricultural crops; (d) receipt by the supervisory authority of information of the Ministry agriculture of the Russian Federation on the needs of the Russian Federations in the supply of seeds of agricultural crops from a foreign country; (e) receipt by the supervisory authority of the information of the authorized body of a foreign state on the elimination of violations identified in the activities of foreign laboratories in the course of previous audits; and (f) the due date for the next audit of a foreign laboratory included in the plan for the audit of foreign laboratories, approved in accordance with paragraph 22 of this Regulation.

Full text
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Website
publication.pravo.gov.ru