Ministerial Decree No. 268 of 1992 regarding the validation of the Regulation on the Federal Plant Quarantine Service. Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Regulation Date 1992 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Cultivated plants Keyword Quarantine Institution Weeds Pests/diseases Inspection Hygiene/sanitary procedures Plant protection 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 Entry into force on the date of issue. Abstract The Government decrees to entitle the Ministry of Agriculture to organize the Federal Plant Quarantine Service and to validate the Regulation. The Ministry of National Security, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Customs Committee are entitled to render assistance to the Federal Plant Quarantine Service within their competence. Federal Plant Quarantine Service realizes the protection of the national territory from penetration from foreign states of quarantine and other dangerous pests, plant diseases and seeds of weeds, that may cause considerable damage to the national economy. The main directions of the activity of the Federal Plant Quarantine Service are the quarantine inspection and laboratory expertise of vegetable products of foreign origin, rendering healthy, quarantine disinfection and decontamination of vegetable products, other materials and transport means arriving from foreign states or quarantine zones, inspection of agricultural and other land, storage and processing sites of vegetable products for the purpose of timely exposure of quarantine pests, plant diseases and weeds, introduction of quarantine division into districts and micro-districts on the national territory. Full text Russian Website www.law.optima.ru. References - Legislation Amended by Ministerial Decree No. 1143 of 1998 regarding the amendments and the additions to the Regulation on the Federal Plant Quarantine Service. Legislation | Russian Federation | 1998 Keyword: Quarantine, Institution, Pests/diseases, Inspection, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Plant protection Source: FAO, FAOLEX