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The draft Resolution amends the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 537 "Some issues of state control to check compliance with the legislation on food, feed, animal by-products, health and welfare of animals, state veterinary and sanitary control and imports of goods to the customs territory of Ukraine during martial law" of 7 May 2022, which defines the peculiarities of state control over compliance with legislation on food, feed, and animal by-products during martial law. The peculiarities are set forth in paragraph 1 of Resolution No. 537 and include the following:
− for imports of cargoes containing products, state control measures are carried out in the form of documentary inspection and compliance checks at the state border. Exceptions include cargoes subject to physical inspection at the state border and laboratory research (testing) in cases specified in paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 of part one of Article 45 of the Law "On State Control over Compliance with Legislation on Food, Feed, By-products of Animal Origin, Animal Health and Welfare";
− for imports of cargoes containing food products of non-animal origin and feed of nonanimal origin, state control measures are carried out in the form of documentary inspection. Exceptions include cargoes subject to compliance checks at the state border, physical inspection at the state border and laboratory research (testing) in cases specified in paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 of part one of Article 45 of the Law of Ukraine "On State Control over Compliance with Legislation on Food, Feed, Animal ByProducts, Animal Health and Welfare" and if such cargoes are included in the list of food products of non-animal origin and feed of non-animal origin that are subject to enhanced state control when imported (sent) into the customs territory of Ukraine, as approved by the Order of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy No 158 of 26 March 2018.
The draft Resolution provides for the exclusion of paragraph 1 of Resolution No. 537 concerning the provision on the temporary possibility to carry out state control with the peculiarities of compliance with the legislation on food, feed, by-products of animal origin, animal health and welfare. The adoption of the draft Resolution will lead to the renewal of inspections (state control measures) of cargoes containing food, feed and by-products of animal origin when they are imported into the customs territory of Ukraine.
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