Law No. 1645-III on protection of population against infectious diseases. Country/Territory Ukraine Document type Legislation Date 2000 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Food & nutrition, Livestock, Water Keyword Standards Hygiene/sanitary procedures Food quality control/food safety Vaccination Pests/diseases Disinfection/disinfestation Animal health Water supply Geographical area Black Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia Entry into force notes The Law enters into force from the date of its official publication. Abstract This Law determines legal, organizational, and functional basis for activities of bodies of executive power, bodies of local self-government, enterprises, institutions and organizations, directed at prevention of emerging and spreading human infectious diseases, localization and liquidation of their outbursts and epidemics; defines rights, obligations, and responsibilities of legal entities and natural persons in the field of protection of the population from infectious diseases. Chapter 1 defines source of infectious disease pathogen as human beings or animals infected with pathogens of an infectious disease. In the field of protection of population against infectious diseases, the Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and local bodies of executive power shall: 1) ensure implementation of prophylactic and anti-epidemic measures (municipal improvements, water supply and discharge, tidying up and sanitary cleaning, control of living carriers of pathogens of infectious diseases etc.) on the territories of populated localities, in places of mass recreation of population and in recreation areas, and supervise implementation of these measures; 2) supervise observance by legal entities and natural persons of sanitary hygienic, sanitary anti-epidemic, and veterinary regulations and rules, standards of trade and consumer services, quality and safety of food products and food raw materials at all stages of their production, storage and distribution. Especially authorized central body of executive power on health issues in the field of protection of population against infectious diseases shall establish allowable levels of contamination, by micro-organisms and other biological factors, of food products and food raw materials, water, soil, and other objects of human vital activity environment. Protection of population against infectious disease common for animals and humans (zooanthroponosis) shall be provided by carrying out veterinary-sanitary, anti-epizootic, prophylactic, and anti-epidemic measures. Full text English