Law on Veterinary Activities (No. I-2110).

This Law regulates veterinary activities pursuant to international requirements; determines the legal status of veterinary structures; establishes requirements of veterinary sanitation as well as the principles of veterinary control. The Law is divided into 5 Chapters: General provisions (1); The State veterinary service (functions, rights, inspectors) (2); Private veterinary practice (duties, rights) (3); Sanitation requirements (duties of breeders, quarantine) (4); Veterinary control (preparations for cattle-breeding, in market places, in hunting) (5); Dispute settlement. Veterinary medicine is a field of scientific and practical activities that includes care, welfare and protection of animals, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of their diseases, animal products, animal by-products and their products, products of genetic material, veterinary drugs and veterinary means, feed and their additives management and state veterinary supervision, protection of the territory against infectious animal diseases and control of these diseases. The main tasks of veterinary medicine: (a) protect animals from diseases with prophylactic anti-epizootic, hygiene and other veterinary measures; (b) treat sick animals; (c) control that the animal products and raw materials used for food and/or processing meet the safety and quality requirements established by legislation; (d) carry out control over the registration of farm animal keeping places and marking of farm animals; (e) control that animal welfare requirements are met; (f) help protect nature from pollution; and (g) implement innovations in veterinary science. Animal keepers who suspect that the animals they keep are suffering from a contagious disease, immediately notify the State Food and Veterinary Service or a private veterinarian and take the necessary measures to prevent the disease from spreading. Officials of the State Food and Veterinary Service may oblige the subjects of veterinary control to slaughter animals or process animal products, animal by-products, feed in accordance with veterinary requirements, when this is necessary for the prevention of an infectious animal disease or the elimination of the focus of such a disease. Losses suffered by animal owners are compensated from budget funds in the cases determined by the Government or its authorized institution and according to the established procedure. It is prohibited to use substances with thyrostatic, estrogenic, androgenic or gestagenic effects, which stimulate the growth of farm animals and increase their productivity, except for cases established by the State Food and Veterinary Service.