Enactment of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food № 57 “On approval of certain regulatory legal acts in the sphere of plant protection”

Registered in the National Register of Legal Acts Of the Republic of Belarus October, 9, 2006, № 8/15119 ENACTMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOODSTUFFS OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS September 27, 2006, № 57 ON APPROVAL OF CERTAIN REGULATORY LEGAL ACTS IN THE SPHERE OF PLANTS PRESERVATION In accordance with article 12 of the Act of the Republic of Belarus from December 25, 2005 “On plants preservation” with the help of the enactment of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus from July 14, 2006 № 881 “On realization of the regulations of the Act of the Republic of Belarus “On plants preservation” and on the basis of the Regulation on the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of the Republic of Belarus approved by the enactment of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus from October 31, 2001 № 1590, the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of the Republic of Belarus enacts: 1. Approve the enclosed: Instruction on the order of attestation procedure for legal bodies carrying on the quarantine inspection of quarantined production; Instruction on the order of the quarantine inspection procedure; Instruction on the order of disinfection and contamination of quarantined objects; Instruction on the order of phytosanitary certificates issuing; List of blasts, plants and weed diseases representing quarantined objects. 2. The present enactment comes into operation since the moment of its official promulgation. Minister L.Rusak APPROVED Enactment Of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs Of the Republic of Belarus September 27, 2006б № 57 INSTRUCTION ON THE ORDEER OF THE ATTISTATION PROCEDURE FOR LEGAL BODIES CARRYING OUT THE QUARANTINE INSPECTION OF QUARANTINEABLE PRODUCTS Chapter 1 COMMON REGULATIONS 1. Instruction on the order of the attestation procedure for legal bodies carrying out the quarantine inspection of quarantineable products (onwards – “Instruction”) is worked out in accordance with the article № 12 of the Act of the Republic of Belarus from December 12, 2005 “On plants preservation” (the National Register of Legal Acts of the Republic of Belarus, 2006, № 6.2/1174) and constitutes the order of the attestation procedure for legal bodies carrying out the quarantine inspection of quarantineable products (onwards – “quarantine inspection” 2. Attestation for legal bodies carrying out the quarantine inspection of quarantineable products is performed with the purpose to determine the existence of material-technical basis including laboratory equipment serving authenticity in determination of quarantined objects; and to determine the relevant qualification of the personnel performing the quarantine inspection. 3. State establishment “Head state inspection for seed breeding, quarantine and plants preservation” and regional state inspections for seed breeding, quarantine and plants preservation (onwards – “legal bodies”). 4. The attestation for legal bodies carrying out the quarantine inspection is performed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of the Republic of Belarus upwards of once in five years. 5. The basic requirements for the legal bodies are: 5.1. Provision of modern optical equipment for determination of quarantined objects by micro characteristics, laboratory equipment, devices, and reagents qualifying the requirements of technical normative acts of the Republic of Belarus; 5.2. Existence of specially equipped premises (including laboratories) with telephone, electronic and fax communication facilities, computer and copying equipment and metal strongboxes for stamps and service documentation keeping; 5.3. Staffing level of the organization by specialists of the relevant qualification: higher education in plants preservation and quarantine, work experience in this sphere upwards of three years; 5.4. Existence of collection material of quarantined objects, varieties close to the quarantined ones, support literature. Chapter 2 ORDER OF ATTESTATION PROCEDURE FOR LEGAL BODIES CARRYING OUT THE QUARANTINE INSPECTION 6. To perform the attestation procedure the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of the Republic of Belarus imposes an order determining the personnel of the attestation committee led by Deputy Minister responsible for plant breeding. 7. The Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of the Republic of Belarus prior to the decision making on attestation has the right to check legal bodies for aptness to the requirements listed in section 5 of the present Instruction. The check period should not exceed tem days. 8. The attestation committee considers the check results and makes decision on attestation (or refusal). 9. Positive or negative decision of the committee on attestation is issued by means of an order imposing by the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of the Republic of Belarus and forwarded to the legal bodies (appraises). The appraises (chiefs of legal bodies) are to be familiarized with the results within five days since the moment the promulgation of the order on attestation by the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of the Republic of Belarus. 10. The results of attestation can be unsatisfactory in case of non-compliance with the requirements of section 5 of the present Instruction. 11. Legal bodies that succeeded with the attestation are subject to the second attestation procedure after the all the corrective measures pointed out by the attestation committee are taken. APPROVED Enactment Of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs Of the Republic of Belarus September 27, 2006б № 57 INSTRUCTION ON THE ORDER OF QUARANTINE INSPECTION PROCEDURE FOR QUARANTINEABLE PRODUCTS Chapter 1 COMMON REGULATIONS 1. The instruction on the order of quarantine inspection procedure for quarantineable products (onwards – “Instruction”) is worked out in accordance with article № 12 of the Act of the Republic of Belarus from December 25, 2005 “On plants preservation” (the National Register of Legal Acts of the Republic of Belarus, 2006, № 6.2/1174) (onwards – “Act”), Enactment on the order of state phytosanitary control at border checkpoints of the Republic of Belarus and (or) the destination points approved by the enactment of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus from July 14, 2006 № 881 “On implementation of regulations of the Act of the Republic of Belarus “On plants preservation” (the National Register of Legal Acts of the Republic of Belarus, 2006, № 123.5/22635) and regulates the order of quarantine inspection procedure for quarantineable products with the purpose to finally identify the quarantined objects elicited while quarantineable products screening procedure; and to elicit hidden infestation by quarantined objects among quarantineable products. 2. The quarantine inspection for quarantineable products is carried out by the state establishment “Head state inspection for seeds breeding, quarantine and plants preservation”, regional state inspections for seeds breeding, quarantine and plants preservation (onwards – “inspections for seeds breeding, quarantine and plants preservation” that passed the attestation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs of the Republic of Belarus in accordance with the applicable procedure. 3. In the present instruction terms and definitions are used with the meaning prescribed by the Act, and be it further: Quarantine inspection (onwards – “inspection”) – laboratory analysis of selected from quarantineable products supplies samples for revelation of quarantined products, blasts, nematodes, plants and weed diseases; Reference sample – sample repeatedly selected after filtration and disinfection procedure for quarantineable products; Quarantine inspection certificate – document proving the existence or absence of quarantined objects among quarantineable products figuring out recommended phytosanitary measures; Entomological analysis – separation and diagnostics of insects; Phytopathological analysis - separation and diagnostics of fungous diseases germs; Helminthological analysis – separation and diagnostics of nematodes – plants diseases germs; Bacteriological analysis – separation and diagnostics of plants bacteriological diseases; Analysis for weed plants – separation and defining weed plants. 4. The following items are subject to the quarantine inspection: Quarantined objects for final defining of their variety; Varieties of hazardous organisms close to quarantined objects; Hazardous organisms causing difficulties while the process of identification of their species composition; Samples of quarantineable products selected in accordance with the National Standard of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics “Agricultural production. Selective methods for samples during quarantine examination and inspection” (the NS 12430-66), approved by the State Committee for Standards of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on December 21, 1966, as well as control samples; Quarantined objects elicited while the examination of quarantineable products for their final identification and eliciting hidden infestation in quarantineable production; Parcels containing young plants, sticks, bulbs of floristic cultivations, clods, rootstock and other planting materials as well as parcels containing seeds of cultural and wild plants sent to scientific institutions which are accountable to the “National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus”, state species experimental stations and others; Parcels containing seeds samples of ornamental, drug, tropical and subtropical plants directed to scientific organizations from abroad (in frames of international scientific exchange programs); Botanic materials of expeditions from abroad; Samples of planting materials of domestic growth directed abroad in frames of international scientific exchange programs. Chapter 2 ORDER OF THE QUARANTINE INSPECTION PROCEDURE 5. The quarantine inspection involves laboratory analysis procedures: entomologic, phytopathologic, bacteriologic, helminthological, analysis on plants basis and others with the purpose to detect quarantined objects or close to them hazardous organisms varieties. 6. Samples for quarantine inspection are selected by state plants quarantine inspectors during the process of supervision of quarantineable products as well as during phytosanitary observations and control. 7. Elicited quarantined objects are to be forwarded for the approval to the state establishment “Head State Inspection for seeds breeding, quarantine and plants preservation” or other authorized regional inspection for seeds breeding, quarantine and plants preservation. 8. Samples for quarantine inspection are to have stickers with names and assignments of quarantineable products, their variety, weight, country of origin, and place of selection (region, border crossing point, number of brigade and field, area), consignee and his location, full name of a person who selected the samples, date of selection. The sticker is the ground for samples registration in accordance with the forms in enclosures 1 and 2. 9. Samples for quarantine inspection are processed in accordance with the quarantine inspection protocol according to appendix 3 describing results of performed analysis procedures. 10. First of all the samples are forwarded for entomologic analysis with the purpose to elicit quarantined and other hazardous organisms. In case of infection is found the sample is disinfected or placed into a freezer. 11. After the entomologic analysis the sample, together with the quarantine inspection protocol is forwarded for the phytopathologic analysis for the existence of quarantined and other diseases caused by fungi in it. 12. After this the under-examination sample is forwarded for the helminthological analysis. This analysis is carried out for young plants, sticks, bulbs of floristic cultivations, clods, rootstock and other planting materials as well as the soil which goes with the samples for the existence of quarantined and other hazardous nematodes. 13. After this the samples are forwarded to the specialist in undesirable plants for examination with a view to detect quarantined and other hazardous weedage. 14. The results of the analysis procedures are mirrored in the quarantine inspection protocol and legalized by stamps and signatures of all the specialists who performed the tests. 15. The quarantine inspection is carried out within 7 days since the moment of the samples receipt, for alive plant material (young plants, sticks, bulbs of floristic cultivations, clods, rootstock and other planting materials) – 5 days. 16. The term of the quarantine inspection procedure can be prolonged up to 35 days for complicated durable tests: Phytopathologic; Biological method for detection of inner infection, centrifugation, detection of potato scab zoosporangia in the soil; Entomologic; Entomologic fragmentation of insects with the proceeding dissection of certain systematic phenomena thematic for quarantined objects detection; Chaetotaxy lepidopterous larva detection; Genitalia butterflies and beetles detection; Fly maggot detection by spiracles; Coccid dissection by pigidium with the proceeding microslides preparation; Whitefly dissection by puparium with the proceeding microslides preparation; Helminthological; Nematodes dissection by proctal-vulvar slicing with the proceeding microslides preparation; Estimation of eggs and maggots vitality; Bacteriologic; Immune-ferment analysis, method of polymer-chain reaction and others; Analysis for undesirable plants; Dissection of small-seed cultivations samples; Seeds dissection by means of anatomic slices and embryo microslides preparation. For quarantine diagnostics some other necessary methods can be involved. Chapter 3 ORDER OF ISSUE OF QUARANTINE INSPECTION CERTIFICATES 17. The bottom-line document for the results of the quarantine inspection is represented by the quarantine inspection certificate issued in form according to the appendix 4. 18. The certificate is issued in three copies. One of the copies is forwarded to regional state inspections for seeds breeding, quarantine and plants preservation within up to five days since the moment of the quarantine inspection procedure completion, one copy is forwarded to the recipient of the quarantineable products if quarantined objects have been detected, and one copy is kept at the department of quarantine inspection that performed the inspection procedure. 19. The quarantine inspection certificate is signed by the chief of the quarantine inspection department and stamped with the stamp “Department of quarantine and methodological management”. 20. The certificate should contain the following data: Presence or absence of quarantined objects in the given samples; Recommendations for performance of the relevant quarantine measures: return, exemption and elimination of the production, disinfection, industrial processing, quarantine limitation and other quarantine measures. 21. Regional state inspections for seeds breeding, quarantine and plants preservation take decisions on the relevant quarantine measures in accordance with the recommendations in the quarantine inspection certificate. 22. The realization of quarantineable products prior to the results of the quarantine inspection are ready is strictly forbidden. Appendix 1 To the Instruction on the order of the quarantine inspection procedure JOURNAL Of registration of samples of imported quarantineable production Inspectio n number Coverin g letter date and number Sampl e recepti on date Sampl e title Samples quantity Place of origin and selection of the sample Quarantine able production owner and location Conclusion on the presen Entom ologist phytopathologis 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Appendix 2 To the Instruction on the order of the quarantine inspection procedure JOURNAL Of registration of domestic quarantineable production Inspectio n number Coverin g letter date and number Sampl e recepti on date Sampl e title Samples quantity Place of origin and selection of the sample Quarantineabl e production owner and location Conclusion on the pre Ent omo logi st phytopathologis 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Appendix 3 To the Instruction on the order of the quarantine inspection procedure PROTOCOL Of the quarantine inspection № Covering letter date and number Sample reception date Sample title Samples quantity Place of origin and selection of the sample Quarantineable production recipient and location Entomologic inspection results REVERSE SIDE Diseases inspection results Weedage Where the sample is forwarded after the Fungi Bacterial Helminthe s inspection results inspection (disbursed during the analysis process, returned, kept at the department etc.) and date Specialists who performed the quarantine inspection (Surname, initials) Appendix 3 To the Instruction on the order of the quarantine inspection procedure State Emblem of the Republic of Belarus (Title of the legal body that performed the quarantine inspection) QUARANTINE INSPECTION CERTIFICATE " " 200 . N Issued (title of the regional state inspection for seeds breeding, Quarantine and plants preservation) For the covering letter from " " 200 . N Sample reception date " " 200 . Title of plant material and samples quantity Origin Place of selection Who sent the material Quarantineable production recipient and location Inspection results: Additional notices (x-ray, fumigation etc.): Recommended measures Chief of the department of quarantine inspection and methodological management (signature) (initials, surname) stamp