Official Letter of the Ministry of Agriculture No. 19-E-4338/og related to cow parsnip (Heracleum). Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Miscellaneous Date 2017 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Cultivated plants Keyword Weeds Crops/grasses Classification/declassification 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 Department of Plant Growing, Mechanization, Chemicalization and Plant Protection of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia considered an appeal received on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, and within the established scope of activity reports the following: (a) at the initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology by order of October 22, 2014 N 1388-st excluded the codes of cow parsnip (Heracleum) from the section "Products of crop production, agriculture and forestry " of All-Russian product classifier OK 005-93. Based on afore-mentioned provision, cow parsnip (Heracleum) lost its status of agricultural crop. The fight against cow parsnip (Heracleum) must be carried out systematically by enterprises, organizations and other land users on land occupied thereby. If foci of this plant are found, it is necessary to inform the administration of the relevant municipality for adoption of measures in the manner prescribed by law. Full text Russian Website docs.cntd.ru