Strategy for integrated border management

VETERINARY LEGAL REGULATIONS
The issues of improvement and the protection of animal health and well-being, the
control of the spreading of communicable diseases and measures for the prevention,
detection, combating and eradication of communicable diseases in animals and
diseases that can be transmitted to humans, veterinary and sanitary control and
conditions for the production and trade in animals, products of animal origin and
animal food are regulated by:
- Law on Veterinary Medicine (Published in the “Official Gazette of the Republic of
Serbia, No. 91/2005);
- Law on Quality Control of Agricultural Food Products in Foreign Trade (Published
in the "Official Gazette of the FRY", No. 12/95 of March 10, 1995; 28/96 and
59/98)
The Veterinary Administration is also implementing several international and bilateral
agreements on veterinary cooperation. The following fifteen international agreements
are currently in force: with Albania, Argentina, Belarus, Bulgaria, Libya, Uruguay,
Croatia, Ukraine, Macedonia, Mongolia, Romania, the Russian Federation, Turkey,
China and the European Community (from 1996).
An Agreement on the Border Control in the Joint Border Station Dimitrovgrad was
signed with Bulgaria on April 15, 2005.
The Protocol on Harmonization of Procedures and Proceedings in Foreign Trade in
Goods Subject to Mandatory Veterinarian-Sanitary Control and Phyto-sanitary
Control on the Border of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro was signed on
April 29, 2003.
LEGAL REGULATIONS ON THE PROTECTION OF PLANTS
The scope of the authority of the Administration for the Protection of Plants and the
manner of sanitary control and inspection of plants, the means for protection and
nutrition of plants, the data collection and the setting up of databases are provided for
by the following legislation:
- Law on the Protection of Plants (Published in the "Official Gazette of the FRY",
No. 24 of May 15, 1998; 26/98);
- Law on Seed (Published in the "Official Gazette of RS", No. 45 of May 31, 2005);
- Law on Seedling (Published in the "Official Gazette of the RS" No. 18/05);
- Law on Genetically Modified Organisms (Published in the "Official Gazette of the
FRY", No. 21 of May 11, 2001);
- Law on the Quality Control of Agricultural and Food Products in Foreign Trade
(Published in the "Official Gazette of the FRY", No. 12/95 of March 10, 1995;
28/96 and 59/98) and accompanying bylaws.
Serbia and Montenegro is signatory to the International Convention ?n the Protection
of Plants.