Ministerial Decree No. 589 of 27 December 2016 validating the Veterinary Rules for the organization of work on issuing of veterinary documents. Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Regulation Date 2016 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Livestock Keyword Animal health Pests/diseases Certification Traceability/product tracing Transport/storage Registration 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 The scope of this Ministerial Decree shall be to ensure veterinary and sanitary safety of controllable products and animals subject to veterinary control (supervision), confirmation of epizootic well-being of territories, places of production of controllable goods in relation to infectious animal diseases, including diseases common to humans and animals, and ensuring traceability of controllable goods in the process of their production, movement and transfer of ownership of them, and establish forms and procedures for registration of veterinary accompanying documents (veterinary certificates, veterinary reports, veterinary references), characterizing the territorial and species origin, veterinary and sanitary condition of the accompanied controlled goods, epizootic well-being of the territories of its origin and allowing to identify the controlled goods, must be registered for the controlled goods included in the List of the controlled goods subject to accompaniment by veterinary accompanying documents. Each veterinary accompanying document shall be attributed unique identification number. Full text Russian Website pravo.gov.ru References - Legislation Repealed by Order No. 862 of the Ministry of Agriculture validating the Veterinary Rules for the organization of work on the preparation of veterinary accompanying documents, the Procedure for issuing veterinary accompanying documents in electronic form and the Procedure for issuing veterinary accompanying documents on paper. Legislation | Russian Federation | 2022 Keyword: Animal health, Pests/diseases, Traceability/product tracing, Transport/storage, Registration Source: FAO, FAOLEX