The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the law on amendments to the veterinary medicine veterinary medicine do Act (Republic of Latvia Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 2001, no. 11; 2002; 2003, nr. 2, 4, 6, 15; 2004, nr. 9, 18, 23; 2006, nr. 9. no) follows: 1. Article 1: turn off paragraph 5;
to make 8, 9 and 10 of the following paragraph: "veterinary practice-8) a practicing veterinarian's professional activity, promoting animal welfare, strengthening and preservation of health, animal disease diagnosis and prevention of ill treatment of animals, surgical operations, as well as the preparation and sale of medicines for the care of the animals in the desired quantities;
9) aquaculture animals — wild animals living in the water that the animals on a farm or bivalve mollusc farming area, as well as animal farm or bivalve mollusc farming area farmed aquatic animals in any stage of its development, the eggs, sperm, and eggs;
10) reference laboratory — accredited laboratory shall perform the delegated functions and the country in the event of a dispute, shall evaluate the results of the investigation, carried out repeated investigation and provides final opinion; "
turn off paragraph 14;
to supplement the article with 15, 16 and 17 the following: ") 15: live animal movement, animal products, by-products not intended for human consumption, animal care products for the mining, production, packaging, storage, placing on the market, transport, import, export, transit, research and development;
16) — a specialized point of sale location, established in accordance with the laws and regulations on feed and feed additives, animal care and keeping of the goods used for storage and distribution or possession of live animals for the purpose of trade;
17) animal care product — the substance or a product that comes into contact with the individual animal body external parts (such as the epidermis, hair, hooves, genital organs), the teeth and the mucous membranes of the oral cavity and is used solely or principally in those body parts for cleaning, protection and maintenance in good condition or body perfume adjustment. "
2. To supplement the law with article 2.1, the following: "2.1 article. National veterinary surveillance and control is subject to the following objects and persons (hereinafter referred to as the State veterinary supervision facilities): 1) animal housing;
2) animal farm;
3) wild species collections;
4) zoos;
5) circus;
6) experiments and scientific purposes to be used in animal breeding, use and supply economic operators;
7) animal shelters and hotels;
8) specialized outlets;
9) markets, is involved in trade in live animals;
10) animal collection centres;
11) auction, exhibition, and other places where the measures with the participation of the animals;
12) hatcheries;
13 artificial insemination) economic operators;
14) embryo transplant business operators;
15) animal artificial insemination services;
16) veterinary service providers;
17) veterinary care practices in the workplace;
18), not by-products intended for human consumption for collection, transportation, storage, processing and disposal of economic operators;
19) animal care products production and distribution operators;
20) the circulation of products of animal origin in the persons involved;
21) animal carriers that their economic activities carrying animals;
22) vehicles for the transport of animals;
23) animal cemeteries. "
3. in article 4: turn off the introductory part of the first subparagraph, the word "single";
make the first part of paragraph 3 as follows: "3) products of animal origin, including by-products not intended for human consumption;";
make the first part of paragraph 5 by the following: "5) animal care products;";
turn off the first part of paragraph 6;
make the other parts 7, 8 and 9 of the following paragraph: "7) authorizes a practitioner of veterinary surgeons to take home (room) animal identification, passports and the issuing of certificates of vaccination;
8) issued by veterinary health certificates and other legislation concerning animal health, animal welfare, animal feed and feed additives, food safety and hygiene and by-products not intended for human consumption, the movement in certain documents;
9) authorise animal shelters, hotels, animal farms and specialized outlets and animal cemetery decoration. "
4. in article 8: Express point 2 as follows: "2) to stop the State veterinary supervision, stop the operation of objects, or to prohibit the movement of animals, trade in animals, animal competitions, auctions, exhibitions and other events with the participation of the animal, if the animal is suspected of possible cases of an infectious disease or a risk to human or animal health, as well as in cases where a breach of the legislation on animal health , welfare, food safety and hygiene and by-products not intended for human consumption, movement requirements; ";
make paragraph 5 by the following: "5) to stop the distribution of products of animal origin, or remove them from the market when there is a reasonable suspicion about the safety for human health, animal health or life or lives, as well as to decide on the destruction of the products concerned and to monitor its implementation;".
5. To supplement the law with article 8.2 the following: ' article 8.2. The food and veterinary service, together with an expert who is not a Member State of the European Union, experts can carry out on the territory of Latvia in existing national veterinary surveillance facilities from which the intended for animal and animal product exports to the States concerned, and to assess the conformity of these objects in the country. "
6. Express article 10 the third paragraph as follows: "(3) if the animal is suspected of possible cases of infectious diseases or risk to human or animal health, the food and veterinary service food and veterinary inspectors for the order and the decision of the opposition and appeal shall not suspend the implementation thereof."
7. Turn off article 11 1, 2 and 3.
8. Supplement article 11.1 with point 5 and 6 by the following: "5) order in which granted the status of a reference laboratory for carrying out the laboratory medicine residue control laboratory;
6) procedures for granting the status of a reference laboratory for carrying out the laboratory animal infectious disease agent identification of antimicrobial resistance. "
9. Turn off the second part of article 18.
10. in article 21: the first part of the turn;
make the second paragraph as follows: "(2) the register of animals in the animal registration procedures in the laws regulating order shall establish and maintain a State Agency" agricultural data centre "."
11. To supplement the law with 21.1 and 21.2 of the article as follows: "article 21.1. The municipality supports orphan animal carcass collection and destruction.
Article 21.2. The municipality, after the food and veterinary service of information about animal infectious diseases may spread, immediately issued binding rules, setting appropriate limits in their administrative territory. "
12. Replace the words "in article 24 the State traffic police of" with the words "State police".
13. Article 25: make paragraph 3 by the following: "3) animal graveyard placement, maintenance, dissolution and clearance procedures";
Add to article 13, 14, 15 and 16 as follows: "13) specialized outlets for opening and operating requirements, as well as the qualifications of the personnel requirements;
14) of the bovine, porcine, ovine and caprine animals for the artificial insemination of the minimum equipment of the service provider;
15) animal care products manufacturing, labelling, distribution, and control arrangements;
16) animal registered databases using existing information. "
14. Turn off the article 33.
15. off 35. in the first paragraph, and the number "in accordance with article 33 of this law".
16. Article 38: make the first paragraph by the following: "(1) the animal owner is entitled to receive compensation for damages: 1) bovine tuberculosis, bovine and caprine brucellosis and enzootic bovine leukosis during the combat damage — up to 50 percent of the average of the kautprodukt;
2) the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy outbreaks during the fight or kill animals slaughtered, as well as animals, there is a suspicion, being killed in the diagnosis for clearance, the carcase destroyed, animal products, embryos and ova;
salmonellosis outbreak of fighting 3) at the time of the notification of the destroyed chickens, or adult birds, iznīcinātaj eggs intended for human consumption and for incubation, products intended for human consumption and for animal feed;

4) aquaculture animals during the fight against infectious diseases in aquaculture animals, the destruction of infectious disease eradication process damage the aquaculture animal nursery facilities in the equipment, as well as aquaculture farms in disinfection of animals. ";
turn off third and fourth.
17. Article 40: express first and second subparagraph by the following: "(1) a Person who is involved: 1) foodstuffs of animal origin, recognize or register the food and veterinary service, if it complies with the requirements of the Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004, by Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs (hereinafter referred to as the Council Regulation No 852/2004), Parliament and the Council of 29 April 2004, Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin (Council Regulation No 853/2004) and the law of the food chain monitoring;
2), not by-products intended for human consumption, or recorded in the food and veterinary service. This person works for the food and veterinary service of the Parliament and of the Council of 3 October 2002 Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption.
(2) public health surveillance shall include: 1) in the first subparagraph within certain systematic person and extraordinary control according to the veterinary legislation in the field of regulatory requirements;
2 the monitoring to be performed under) laboratory tests;
3) residue control programme;
4) persons control, which deals with livestock, slaughter of the wild animals hunted or restricted areas of wild animal species kept for meat, meat, meat refrigeration or storage in accordance with the legislation on animal health, animal welfare, animal nutrition, food safety and hygiene and by-products not intended for human consumption. ";
to make the fourth and fifth by the following: "(4) the by-products not intended for human consumption, collection, transportation, storage, processing and disposal is in accordance with European Union legislation. The food and veterinary service, shall be the competent authority, which shall have the right to determine the exceptions under European Union legislation.
(5) the by-products not intended for human consumption, the owner shall ensure the collection, storage, transport, processing and destruction. "
18. Put the title of Chapter VII, the following: "Chapter VII inspection".
19. Article 43 be worded as follows: "article 43. The food and veterinary service shall carry out ante-mortem inspection of animals and post-mortem inspection in accordance with the requirements laid down by Parliament and the Council of 29 April 2004, Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 laying down specific rules for products of animal origin intended for human consumption for the organisation of official controls (hereinafter referred to as a Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 854/2004). "
20. in article 46: express first and second subparagraph by the following: "(1) the merchant who is the holder of a slaughterhouse or deal with the wild animals hunted or restricted areas of the wild species of animals kept in the meat or the Division, enter into an agreement with the food and veterinary service of the veterinary inspection and veterinary supervision, as well as provide inspection to carry out the necessary work conditions.
(2) the production of fisheries products, marketing, processing or distribution of the site's owner to enter into an agreement with the food and veterinary service of inspection of fishery products and the payment arrangements as well as ensure fisheries products inspection necessary work conditions. ";
turn off the fourth.
21. Article 47: make the first paragraph by the following: "(1) the food and veterinary service inspection, veterinary supervision and inspection of fisheries products to tender selected and empowered the people food and veterinary service in the order received the certificate for the right to carry out controls according to the legislation on animal health, animal welfare, animal nutrition, food safety, hygiene and by-products not intended for human consumption that movement. ";
turn off the fourth.
22. Turn off 49, 50 and 51.
23. Article 53 off the first part of paragraph 7.
24. Supplement article 54 with the sixth subparagraph by the following: "(6) the cabinet shall determine the agricultural animals not to be curative operation types and the persons who, in addition to the first and second part of the said persons entitled to carry out such operations."
25. To supplement the law with article 54.1 of the following: ' article 54.1. The person who has acquired secondary vocational education in veterinary medicine (veterinārfeldšer or veterinary assistant), are authorized to provide services applied, only practicing under the supervision of the official veterinarian. "
26. Article 55: Supplement (4) and (5) after the word "owner" with the words "or the holder";
turn off paragraph 5, the words "and the veterinārfarmaceitisk";
make paragraph 6 by the following: ' 6) to buy medicine for veterinary practice needs of economic operators carrying out the activities of pharmaceutical or veterinārfarmaceitisk; ".
27. To exclude article 57, first paragraph, the words "and veterinārfarmaceitisko products".
28. the title of chapter XI be expressed by the following: "chapter XI animal owner or holder of rights and obligations".
29. Supplement article 58 by name "owners" with the words "or" cops ".
30. Article 59: supplement article introductory paragraph, after the word "owners" with the words "or" cops ";
make paragraph 8 b of subparagraph by the following: "(b)) the economic operators involved with by-products not intended for human consumption, collection, animal death;";
make 14 the following: "14) not later than three months of age and once a year to ensure the House of dogs, cats and ferrets (room) the vaccination against rabies, and to receive the European Union's House (room) the animal passport, or certificate of vaccination."
31. To supplement the law with such chapter XII: "chapter XII. National veterinary surveillance object the suspension and restoration of article 61. (1) the food and veterinary service of the country's main food and veterinary inspector, senior food Inspector, national senior veterinary inspectors, State food inspectors and the State Veterinary Inspectorate (hereinafter referred to as a food and veterinary service officials) have the right to suspend or limit the object of veterinary supervision or it departments (hereinafter referred to as object) if found non-compliance with animal health, animal welfare and by-products not intended for human consumption, movement of regulatory laws and requirements After a written warning shall be issued the appropriate object in the owner, possessor or his authorized person.
(2) the Notice shall indicate the discrepancy established animal health, welfare and by-products not intended for human consumption, movement of regulatory legislation and sets the deadlines for the correction of non-compliance: 1) in the light of the actual prevention options — from one month to three months;
2) where non-compliance requires preventing the object's renovation, up to one year;
3) if non-compliance requires preventing the construction of objects, up to two years.
(3) if the notice contains the irregularities are not rectified within the time limit set by the food and veterinary service officer within three working days after the warning of the end of the time limit laid down in the decision on the suspension of the object.
(4) the suspension of operation provides the owner, possessor or his authorised person.
(5) an object suspended without notice if: 1) animal health, welfare and by-products not intended for human consumption, the movement of the regulatory law violation or production environment, you can come to dangerous substances or pathogens or risk to human or animal health or life;
2) object action not recognised or registered according to the laws that determine the appropriate object in steps of registration or recognition.
62. article. (1) the owner, possessor of an object or his authorized person on alert or decision on the suspension of the object, the specified legislation prevention in writing notify the food and veterinary service official who issued the warning, or taken a decision on the suspension of the object. The food and veterinary service officer within five working days of receipt of the check, or violation of law is eliminated.

(2) If all the decisions on the suspension of the operation of the laws mentioned breach is remedied, the food and veterinary service officer not later than three working days after the examination, issue a written authorization of the transaction object.
(3) If there is any decision on the suspension of the operation of the laws mentioned breach, the food and veterinary service official reasoned written refusal to restore.
Article 63. The decision on suspension of the object can be a challenge and appeal against administrative procedure law. The food and veterinary service officials warning or the decision on the suspension of the disputed object or appeal shall not suspend its activity. "
32. the transitional provisions be supplemented with paragraph 20 as follows: "Cabinet of Ministers to 20, 2009 December 31 issued this law, article 25, paragraph 3 of the above provisions. Until the date of entry into force of the provisions, but not longer than until the 2009 December 31 is applicable to the Cabinet of Ministers of 27 July 2004, the Regulation No. 632 "animal graveyard placement and maintenance of order", in so far as they do not conflict with this Act. "
33. To supplement the law with the informative reference to European Union directives as follows: "Informative reference to European Union directives, the law includes provisions deriving from Council of 20 July 1998 Directive 98/58/EC on the protection of animals kept for farming purposes."
The law adopted by the Parliament in 2008 on December 18.
President Valdis Zatlers in Riga V 2009 January 7 Editorial Note: the law shall enter into force on the 21 January 2009.