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Allow to preserve veterinary medicines and raw material for producing veterinary medicines in the warehouse of enterprises

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This is the solution of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) while waiting for the approval of veterinary medicine testing dossiers from the testing facilities. At the same time, facilitating to the businesses, reducing storage costs for enterprises in the preservation of veterinary medicine and raw materials for producing veterinary medicine, especially veterinary vaccines.

Updated on : 13-07-2018

Regarding to this issue, the General Department of Vietnam Customs also sent documents to provincial Customs departments for implementation.

According to the current law, veterinary medicines and raw materials for producing veterinary medicine must be inspected, including samples for testing according to the frequency prescribed in Article 43 of Circular No. 13/2016 / TT- BNNPTNT, then the inspection agency informs the result to the importers, the Customs authorities will base on that to implement customs for the consignment.

However, currently, some veterinary medicines testing facilities designated by MARD are finalizing the dossiers for approval of additional testing methods.

Therefore, some veterinary medicines and raw materials do not have particular testing method, thus the inspection agency cannot take samples to test and analyze the quality for completion of the cargo clearance procedure.

Therefore, in order to facilitate enterprises to preserve veterinary medicines, raw materials and especially veterinary vaccines, and to reduce storage costs for enterprises, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development requests Customs authorities to allow enterprises to import veterinary medicines and raw materials for storage at the enterprise's warehouse when they get the approval of the Department of Animal Health of MARD. Importers will register for medicine quality inspection as regulated when the medicine testing facilities complete the procedures as indicated, and complete the dossiers to send to the Customs authorities for customs clearance.

Source:  Customs News