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Rosselkhoznadzor: Banned goods from EU arrive to Russia through Belarus

Rosselkhoznadzor: Banned goods from EU arrive to Russia through Belarus

Belarus has been accused of smuggling goods from the EU again.

It follows from a statement posted at the official website of Rosselkhoznadzor.

“Control of goods is carried out in the framework of inspections at the markets, vegetable warehouses, retail trade outlets, as well as phytosanitary control points at the administrative border between Russia and Belarus set up by Rosselkhoznadzor (the Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Monitoring Service),” the report reads. “After the special economic measures were imposed by Russia, Rosselkhoznadzor prevented more than 80 attempts of illegal smuggling in of plant products from the EU countries from the territory of Belarus.”

Such products are most often are attempted to be brought in an anonymized way, without phytosanitary document, however expert examination of packing often allows to establish its origin. Completely de-identified products are stopped as well, they arrive without documents and in packing without any marking. Besides the cases are detected when products from the third countries have accompanying phytosanitary certificates which confirm its allegedly Belarusian origin.

“Checks of Rosselkhoznadzor at storehouses and vegetable and fruit markets also reveal serious violations in the turnover of plant products under quarantine,” the report reads. “Thus, checks held on August 27 and September 12 this year by Rosselkhoznadzor directorate for Moscow, Moscow and Tula regions together with territorial law-enforcing agencies at the territory of OOO “Trading house “Slavyanski” wholesale horticultural market, have spotted sale of a wide range of horticultural products imported from a number of the EU countries including Spain, Greece, Poland.

The accompanying documents for such products were not provided in any case, however marking on the packages disclosed the real countries of origin, and its re-export through Belarus. At the same time, the legal requirements of obligatory informing of Rosselkhoznadzor about arrival of a batch of products which are required to undergo quarantine, had been ignored by the owners. Following the results of just one last inspection, 15 individuals were brought to account. They had been selling quarantineable products at the territory of “Slavyanski” wholesale horticultural market and OOO “Property Investment”. 25 reports were drawn up on charges relating Article 10.3 of the Administrative Code of Russia for failure to inform about the arrival of quarantineable products, failure to carry out disease-treatment and quarantine phytosanitary examinations. Besides, two reports under Article 19.4.1 of the Administrative Code for interfering with legal activities of officials were drawn up. Fines for about 100,000 rubles were imposed after the administrative cases were tried.”

Rosselkhoznadzor is particularly concerned about the phytosanitary security of such goods. Samples of quarantineable products were collected during these checks, and they were forwarded for a quarantine phytosanitary expert examination at the All-Russian centre of plants’ quarantine. Oriental fruit moth was found in 5 samples, mulberry scale in 4 samples, and Californean thrips in one of them.

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