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Regional Law No. 66-OZ “On agricultural development”.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Territorial subdivision
Voronezh
Document type
Legislation
Date
2007
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Food & nutrition
Keyword
Agricultural development Agricultural commodities Agricultural extension Subsidy/incentive Credit Food quality control/food safety Processing/handling
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
This Regional Law enters into force 10 days after the date of its official publication.
Abstract

This Regional Law establishes legal grounds for agricultural development related to production of agricultural commodities and provision of the population with foodstuffs of the Russian origin and, in particular, produced on the regional territory. The main directions of state agrarian policy shall be: (a) ensuring food quality control; (b) conservation and reproduction of natural resources used for agricultural production; (c) formation of agricultural commodities and food market; and (d) subsidies to the producers of agricultural commodities (art. 5). State support of the producers of agricultural commodities shall be carried out in the following forms: (a) credits; (b) insurance of agricultural risks; (c) promotion of pedigree stockbreeding; (d) promotion of elite seed-growing; (e) animal production; (f) soil improvement; and (g) extension (art. 7).

Full text
Russian
Website
www.vrnoblduma.ru