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The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on pre-shipment control of quarantine plant products for export to Russia and audit of laboratories of foreign countries in the matter of plant quarantine. The document was initiated by the Russian government.
"The draft federal law has been developed to establish the possibility of conducting, if necessary, pre-shipment control of quarantine products intended for export to Russia, as well as auditing laboratories of foreign countries in terms of plant quarantine and control over residual content of pesticides and agrochemicals, which makes it possible to determine the real capabilities of such laboratories to conduct appropriate studies of plant products exported to Russia at the level of requirements established for such products by Russian legislation," the explanatory note says.
The draft law will ensure inspection of quarantine products intended for import to Russia in order to confirm their compliance with quarantine phytosanitary requirements before import to Russia, exclude the import of dangerous plant products to Russia in terms of quarantine, quality and safety. Pre-shipment phytosanitary control (inspection) and audit of plant quarantine laboratories will be carried out on the basis of a bilateral agreement with a foreign state on such activities to optimize quarantine phytosanitary control, reduce time and, as a result, material costs of participants in foreign economic activity, create favorable conditions for increasing the volume of supplied products and "seamless" passage of quarantine phytosanitary control procedures for fruit and vegetable products, as noted in the accompanying materials to the document.
Also, the audit of foreign laboratories will ensure that products grown abroad and intended for delivery to Russia comply with Russian requirements and will determine the ability of the foreign official supervision system to ensure the appropriate level of safety of controlled goods.
If adopted, the document will come into force 180 days after its official publication.
