The Rosselkhoznadzor commented on the proposal for a transitional period for the law on manure

Recall that the law on animal by-products (LBP) was adopted in July 2022, and entered into force on March 1, 2023. By law, livestock by-products are manure, manure and runoff from livestock, and bedding if such products are used in agricultural production.

In June of this year, deputies of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia applied to the Ministry of Agriculture with a request to introduce a transitional period in the implementation of the law, so that agricultural enterprises could prepare for its implementation. Among the arguments, they cited that it is very expensive to build specialized sites for storing manure (about 20 million rubles), and there is no place to conduct a LLP study, as required by the new legislation. There are no such laboratories in Karelia.

Commenting on the appeal of the Karelian deputies to ViZh, the North Sea Interregional Department of ROSSELKHOZNADZOR noted that last year they explained the requirements of the new law to representatives of local authorities and farmers.

“The department held the first meeting with a wide representation of regional authorities, representatives of the agro-industrial complex in the summer of 2022. Even then, state bodies were asked to think and allocate the same financial resources to the budgets of the republic for support measures, and agricultural producers to decide on their current state of affairs, measure business opportunities with new requirements, when livestock by-products must be stored on specially equipped sites that exclude contact with the soil,” representatives of the Rosselkhoznadzor said. 

Representatives of the supervisory agency said that they had previously pointed out that the republican laboratory was not able to conduct research on animal by-products. The new legislation regulates the content of toxic elements hazardous to soil, animals and humans, pesticides, pathogenic and pathogenic microorganisms, and parasites in the WFP.

The Rosselkhoznadzor proposed to cooperate with the North-West Testing Laboratory of the Federal Center for Animal HEALTH (FBGU "ARRIAH" of the Rosselkhoznadzor) to resolve this issue. “A similar interaction algorithm has been tested in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, and will be implemented in the Komi Republic in the near future. However, even to the outstretched helping hand, the answer was received that the proposal was inappropriate, and the republican laboratory would expand the scope of accreditation, but in 2025,” Rosselkhoznadzor told ViZh. 

According to representatives of the department, the delay in the implementation of the law is not able to change the situation for the better.

“Rosselkhoznadzor already has experience of delayed entry into force of the law on veterinary certification of products, which, unfortunately, shows that the year received for preparation has in no way changed the situation in terms of increasing readiness for its implementation,” summed up the representatives of the service.