Resolution on Licensing of Activities for Manufacturing and Sale of Chemicals (in agrochemistry) (No. 467 of 1997)

RESOLUTION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC of August 12, 1997 No. 467 On Licensing of Activities for Manufacturing and Sale of Chemicals (in agrochemistry) The Government of the Kyrgyz Republic notes that many newly created service enterprises for agrochemical service are involved in improper functions. At the same time, there is lack of control over their activity on the part of the oblast and raion state administrations, the Ministry of Agriculture and Water of the Kyrgyz Republic. There are cases of import of unregistered, unexamined and even prohibited means of plant protection form diseases, pests, and weeds, which may cause a negative impact on the environment and the health of people. Up to the present time, neither committee for chemical and biological plant protection has been established in the republic, nor law on plant chemization or protection has been adopted. For the purposes of due control over application of means of plant protection while rendering services for agrochemical services of business entities of all types of ownership, and to implement the Resolution of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic of May 26, 1997 No. 293 “On Licensing of Certain Types of Activity”, the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic hereby rules: 1. To approve the Attachment hereto on Licensing of Activities for Manufacturing and Sale of Chemicals (in Agrochemistry). 2. To charge the Department for Plant Chemization and Protection at the Ministry of Agriculture and Water of the Kyrgyz Republic with powers to issue licenses to individuals and legal entities to implement activities for manufacturing and sale of chemicals (in agrochemistry). 3. The Heads of oblast and raion state administrations and aiyl okmotu shall ensure organization of offices in the rural areas, providing agrochemical services to rural manufacturers in compliance with the Regulation approved hereby, and to provide various support to them. 4. The Ministry of Agriculture and Water of the Kyrgyz Republic: shall within one month submit to the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic proposals on formation of the National Committee for Testing and Registration of Chemical and Biological Plant Protection, Pheromones, and Growth Regulators of Agricultural Plants and Forests; shall within one week present to the State Customs Inspectorate at the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic the list of means of plant protection permitted in the Kyrgyz Republic. 5. To add the Plan of the Legislative Activity of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic for 1997, approved by the Resolution of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic of June 9, 1997 No. 343, by the following paragraph: “On Chemization and Plant Protection in the Kyrgyz Republic III Ministry of Agriculture and Water Ministry of Justice Ministry of Finance Ministry of Environment Protection Ministry of Health Protection Ministry of Internal Affairs Government Forest Agency 6. The Government Customs Inspectorate at the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic shall ensure the strict control over the imported plant protection substances in compliance whit the List presented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Water of the Kyrgyz Republic. 7. To recommend that the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic, Joint Stock and Commercial Banks, and the Kyrgyz Agricultural Finance Corporation provide financial assistance to newly established agrochemical services, and provide them preferential credits for increase and development thereof. 8. To charge the Vice Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic K. A. Abdimomunov with controlling powers over implementation of this Resolution. Prime Minister A. Jumagulov