Law No. OH-140-N “On phytosanitary”. Country/Territory Armenia Document type Legislation Date 2014 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Cultivated plants Keyword Basic legislation Plant protection Quarantine Pesticides Registration Packaging/labelling Geographical area Asia, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Europe, Europe and Central Asia, Landlocked Developing Nations, Western Asia Entry into force notes The present Law shall enter into force on the tenth day following the official publication day of the law. Abstract The present Law regulates the relations concerning implementation and management of the sphere of phytosanitation, fixes mandatory phytosanitary requirements and the main phytosanitary principles in the process of growing, storing, transportation or marketing of plants, plant products and other regulated articles, as well as responsibilities of physical and legal persons engaged in soil cultivation. Phytosanitary Objectives are: a) detection and control of organizing eradication of plant quarantine and regulated non-quarantine harmful organisms in the territory of the Republic of Armenia; b) prevention of penetration and spread of plant quarantine harmful organisms in the territory of the Republic of Armenia-application of measures towards phytosanitary examination of plants, plant products and regulated articles, sampling for expertise and plant protection; c) observance of phytosanitary rules and norms during import, export, re-export and transit transportation of plants, plant products and regulated articles; d) observance of phytosanitary rules and norms and control over their observance during production and processing of plants, plant products and regulated articles, as well as at the points of sale functioning throughout the Republic of Armenia; e) implementation of measures aimed to timely foresee, diagnose and prevent mass propagation and spread of plant harmful organisms; and e) ensuring improvement of phytosanitary condition of agricultural, ornamental crops, exclusion of any possible damage to environment, flora and fauna. Pesticides and agrochemicals produced and commercialized in the territory of the Republic of Armenia shall be subjected to state registration. It is prohibited to import, produce, sell and use pesticides and agrochemicals not registered in the Republic of Armenia. Marking in Armenian on the packaged pesticides and agrochemicals circulating in the Republic of Armenia is compulsory. In the event of detection of infection with quarantine harmful organisms in the zone free from quarantine organism based on the conclusion of phytosanitary monitoring and laboratory expertise conducted for the purpose of detection, isolation, elimination and prevention of spread of plant quarantine harmful organisms in the territory of the Republic of Armenia plant quarantine shall be established in the area of the Republic, marz, community, habitats or areas owned by physical and legal persons or in some part of them. Full text Russian/English References - Legislation Repeals Law on plant protection and plant quarantine (2000). Legislation | Armenia | 2000 Keyword: Basic legislation, Plant protection, Quarantine, Institution Source: FAO, FAOLEX