Goods subjected to control by Moldova's National Food Safety Agency to have simplified import regime

Chisinau, 3 April /MOLDPRES/ - 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.