Sanitary and Phytosanitary & Veterinary regulation

In this part of the CEFTA Web Portal you will find the most important sanitary, phytosanitary and veterinary control procedures to be followed for each CEFTA Economy. The information about the control procedures includes but is not limited to: 1.The location of sanitary, phytosanitary and/or veterinary control offices including working hours in each office; 2.A description of sanitary, phytosanitary and/or veterinary procedures; 3.The documents asked by the respective authorities in order to obtain approval for entering, transiting or exiting the territory of the respective CEFTA Economy; 4.The officially approved documents issued by the respective authorities; 5.A description of the official procedures for sampling. In cases where the final destination of goods is one of the CEFTA Economies included in this web portal, please refer to the sanitary, phytosanitary and/or veterinary import procedures of that Economy. In case your goods exit the territory of one of the CEFTA Economies included in this web portal, please refer to the sanitary, phytosanitary and/or veterinary export procedures relevant to that Economy.




What is subjected to the Sanitary Inspection

Sanitary monitoring includes the control of quality of food, control of hygienic and sanitary conditions in industrial-food facilities, in trade, health, catering, educational and cultural buildings, sports and recreation, private and public facilities. Sanitary Inspectorate shall issue a sanitary certificate, subject to the fulfillment of foreseen sanitary criteria.

Laws and Regulations

There are two main instruments governing this field:

1. Law on Sanitary Inspectorate of Kosovo* No. 2003/22

2. Regulation No. 2003/39.

This instruments can be downloaded in Food and Veterinary Agency  website:
http://www.auv-ks.net/index.php?option=com_docman&Itemid=83&lang=en

Contact

Food and Veterinary Agency 
Website:
 http://www.auv-ks.net

Ministry of Agriculture
Website:
 http://www.ks-gov.net/mbpzhr/

Ministry of Health
Website:
 http://www.mshgov-ks.org/