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Order No. 439 of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy validating the Regulation on the State Plant Quarantine Service.

Country/Territory
Ukraine
Document type
Regulation
Date
2003
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Cultivated plants
Keyword
Institution Quarantine Certification Pests/diseases Weeds Plant protection
Geographical area
Black Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia
Abstract

The State Plant Quarantine Service is the authorized institution in the sphere of plant quarantine. The State Plant Quarantine Service is authorized to issue phytosanitary and quarantine certificates accompanying each single lot of quarantine materials transported by a single carrier. The main tasks of the State Plant Quarantine Service are: 1) protection of the national territory against introduction or autonomous penetration from abroad or from quarantine area of quarantine organisms; 2) timely exposure, localization and liquidation of quarantine organisms; 3) prevention of the penetration of quarantine organisms form quarantine areas into the regions of Ukraine in which they were absent; 4) carrying out the state control over the observance of quarantine procedure and carrying out plant quarantine arrangements in the process of procurement, export, import, transport, storage, processing and trade of quarantine materials and objects. The State Plant Quarantine Service shall carry out the following functions: 1) study of specific composition, biology and ecology of quarantine and other dangerous pests, plant disease and weeds absent on the national territory and elaboration of prognosis of the possible acclimatization thereof in Ukraine for the purpose of the introduction thereof; 2) phytosanitary expertise of quarantine materials and objects; 3) issuance of the authorization for import (transit) of quarantine materials; 4) imposition of penalties for the infringers of plant quarantine legislation; 5) state control over carrying out plant quarantine arrangements by legal and natural persons; 6) control over disinfection of quarantine materials and objects.

Full text
Ukrainian
Website
www.rada.kiev.ua