3 April 2019 – The goods subjected to control by the National Food Safety Agency (ANSA) will be able to easier be imported to Moldova. To this end, the cabinet today approved a string of amendments to the regulation on the crossing of the state border of the goods subjected to control by ANSA, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.

Thus, the minimum term (24 hours) of notification by economic operators at the import into Moldova of goods subjected to phyto-sanitary control will be excluded. Also, decision-makers will revise the concept of phyto-sanitary control of wood packages: boxes, baskets, cylinders, classified at the tariff position 4,415, through their exclusion from the classified list of goods subjected to phyto-sanitary control.

At the same time, the cabinet will cancel the compulsoriness of presenting the quality certificate issued by the EU competent authorities for the food products of non-animal origin and goods which are used as ingredients for making foodstuffs means for human consumption. Instead of this certificate, importers will present a declaration on their own responsibility, issued by the EU producer or exporter, which confirms the safety and quality of products.

The certificate on the inoffensiveness of goods, issued by the competent authorities of the exporting state, will be demanded only for a reduced spectrum of food products of non-animal origin, subjected to consolidated control, with enhanced risk level, according to a list published and updated by ANSA at least twice a year.

The Draft Government Decision was elaborated following the gaps identified by the business community and alerted to the Economic Council to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova.

The Secretariat of the Economic Council to the Prime Minister is  supported  by  the  European  Bank  for  Reconstruction  and  Development, funded by the UK Government’s Good Governance Fund, and the World Bank Group project “Investment Climate Reform”, funded by the Sweden.

The Secretariat of the Economic Council to the Prime Minister is supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, funded by the UK Government’s Good Governance Fund.