Procedure of licensing to conduct works on quarantine phytosanitary disinfection

Licensing of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs to conduct works on quarantine phytosanitary disinfection is specified by the Article 27 of the Federal law №206-FL as of 21.07.2014 (amended on 13.07.2015) “On Plant Quarantine”. The standard will come into force from January 1, 2018. Up to this date these works are conducted by the relevant divisions of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor).

According to the Law, works on quarantine phytosanitary disinfection have to be performed in following cases:

• import or export of under-quarantine objects or products from/to Russia;
• necessity of issuance of quarantine or phytosanitary certificates;
• having the Rosselkhoznadzor order to conduct quarantine phytosanitary disinfection of under-quarantine products;
• decision of under-quarantine products’ owner to carry out disinfection as a quarantine phytosanitary measure, if under-quarantine products are infected or polluted with quarantine objects.

The Article 2 of the same Law defines concepts of under-quarantine objects and products. Under-quarantine products are plants, plant products, package, including packing materials, freights, soil, organisms or materials which can be carriers of quarantine objects or support to their spreading. Under-quarantine objects are land parcels, buildings and facilities, reservoirs, storage sites, equipment, vehicles, containers and other objects which can support hazardous organisms, missing or being stenotopic in the country, and included in the common list of quarantine objects, to get into the territory of Russia or to be spread. The list is adopted by the relevant order №501 of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia as of 15.12.2014 (registered in the Ministry of Justice on 29.12.2014 №35459).

In execution of provisions of the law, RF Government Decree №133 as of 03.02.2017 «On approval of the Regulation on licensing the activities of legal entities, individual entrepreneurs for the right to perform works on quarantine phytosanitary disinfection» was adopted. The Decree will come into force since January 1, 2018.

According to the Decree, requirements necessary for conducting activities on disinfection are imposed to license applicants. Among them: having property or other legal objects not included in residential properties, having appropriate equipment and control, alarm, alerting and protection systems.

Regardless of work performed, to obtain a license the applicants have to provide the licensing authority (Rosselkhoznadzor) with an application and documents confirming the registration of property objects in the Unified State Register of Real Estate (EGRN); copies of documents confirming the inventory of equipment and systems mentioned above. To be licensed on certain types of work additional documents could be required.

Decision on issue or refusal, suspension, re-issue of license and other decisions are made according to the procedure established by the Federal law «On licensing certain types of activity».

For issue, re-issue of a license, issue of a copy of a license the state duty is fixed. The amount and payment date are specified by the legislation of Russia on taxes and duties.

The Decree also prescribes the procedure of verifying data containing in application for a license and enclosed documents, as well as procedure of licensing control and revocation, re-issue, suspension and restoration of licenses.