Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to the complex” Belgorod dairy farms “in the village Zorinsk yards , September 2007
Vladimir Putin has set the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Alexander Tkachev, the task of ensuring the transition to the electronic certification in milk without price increases. So the president has reacted to reports of possible failures of supply
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has put before the Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev, the task of ensuring the transition to the electronic certification in milk without increasing the product price. He said this after the pages of “Kommersant” the National Union of Milk Producers (Soyuzmoloko) warned about possible supply disruptions due to the unwillingness of the industry to fulfill the requirements of the Ministry of Agriculture of the order, which obliges to issue veterinary accompanying documents.
“It is important that all these innovations were minimally zabyurokracheny and not to create additional substantial burden for producers, which eventually will inevitably be reflected in the price of the product”, – Putin said at a meeting with Tkachev (quoted by “Interfax”)
The president also asked the head of the Ministry of Agriculture to comment on some publicly expressed concern about the situation with the production of milk. The Minister responded by saying that the transition to the electronic certification of milk corresponds to the world practice, and this step will allow the fight against counterfeit and substandard products. “We are monitoring the situation, understand the threat and will try to do that would be all right”, – said Tkachev
February 17, 2016 Russian Ministry of Justice registered the order of the Ministry of Agriculture, which requires milk producers to March this year to issue veterinary. supporting documents in respect of each batch produced packaged milk.
On Wednesday, March 9, “Kommersant” newspaper reported that the National Union of milk producers (Soyuzmoloko, it includes including Danone and PepsiCo) sent a letter to Vice -premeru Arkady Dvorkovich, head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov and deputy head of the Ministry of Economy Oleg Fomichev to cancel the order to the Ministry of Agriculture. Manufacturers have warned that the new rules could lead to the suspension of production of drinking milk in the country.
«In fact, the production may be phased out in March of this year, and can be stopped deliveries of drinking milk in the shops, because no one of the market participants can not fulfill the requirements of this document “, – told the publication director of communications PepsiCo Marina Zibareva
Rosselkhoznadzor, in turn, denied reports about the threat of a failure in the supply of milk.. Deputy Head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Nikolai Vlasov said that the certification of dairy products remains voluntary. According to him, the milk supply disruption threat to the shops there.
Vlasov specified that the products that have not yet been subjected to certification will be subject to mandatory certification in only January 1, 2018. “That is to certify packaged milk now no one needs. What Soyuzmoloko today raises this wave – stage once their fight against electronic certification as such, “- he said
The order of the Ministry of Justice approves the list of products in respect of which should be made out veterinary accompanying documents, with milk. products in the order is divided into two groups. As a representative of Soyuzmoloko explained about the second group in the order does have a note from which it follows that it does not apply before 2018. However, about drinking milk, which belongs to the first group, there is no such specification.
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