The Republic of LATVIA Cabinet of Ministers Regulations No. 129 (pr. No 36 2) Issued by the constitutional order laid down in article 81 of the 350 for food rules, terminology and concepts of accreditation (recognition), laboratory or any other certification or control institution official recognition.
Marking or labelling, food or its packaging with product representative data specified by these rules or other regulations issued on the basis thereof and give the consumer the necessary information.
Conformity certification-accredited third party whose purpose is to certify the conformity of the goods or services of a particular document, regulations and technical requirements.
Certification-laboratory or any other certification or inspection bodies the mandate set for performance evaluation.
Wrapped or packaged foods — known for the quantity of food that is prepared according to the rules in force, tested, measured or weighed and packed in closed containers, marked and prepared for distribution.
The harmful pollution — any substance or structure, including biological, chemical or mechanical, whose presence in foodstuffs may reduce its quality and use of such products, to cause harm to human health.
Quality: the quality of the food as a whole that provides the ability to meet consumer needs and gets the product chemical composition, in physical characteristics, appearance, color, smell, nutritional value and safety of human health.
The minimum quality requirements — requirements, compliance with which ensures the safety of a product or service to human health.
Organoleptic (sensory) investigation — with human senses digest foods sensory characteristics (appearance, texture, smell, color, etc.).
Food: everything that people consume, including foods, drinking water, alcohol and other beverages, chewing gum, as well as food additives and seasonings, except medicine, the circulation of which is governed by the law «About the pharmaceutical activity».
Food chain — all the stages that go out for food distribution, extraction, preparation, processing, processing, manufacturing, packaging, storage, handling, transport, import, export, distribution, food preparation and other stages to consumption.
Food distribution-food offering, sale (wholesale and retail), transfer, withdrawal, in accordance with the Treaty, free of charge.
Food: the food of the denaturing properties, is added to foods for some hard-separable and hence making it unsuitable for consumption.
Food company — natural and legal person who works independently in one of the food chain.
Consumer: a person who used food for personal use and/or other food product production Certificate — public and accredited institutions authorized to confirmation that a product or service meets the standard or technical document of a specific regulatory requirements.
Technical documents-regulations of the Republic of Latvia approved national standards or the International Organization for Standardization standard, in the territory of the Republic of Latvia on the national standards recognised foreign and company standards, organizations (companies) standards, building rules and regulations, technical rules and descriptions used, as well as other documentation, which sets out requirements for marketable production and quality of service, safety and other indicators.
Space food, space or other area buildings or means of transport intended for os, |, for use in the food chain, also a utility room of personal hygiene.
Chapter one General provisions 1. these provisions govern food policy, food quality supervision and control of the country, as well as the responsibility for this provision and the legislation issued threats.
2. The purpose of these provisions is to ensure high quality, safe and wholesome food.
3. these rules apply to all types of food obtained or there, or imported and intended for distribution.
4. Restrictions on the advertising of foodstuffs, as well as the order in which the question is to permit the advertising of food media, determined by the Cabinet of Ministers separately.
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Food national supervision 5. national food surveillance aims to provide a complete, high quality and healthy food, as well as under the law, those rules and other regulations to control and, if necessary, punish or otherwise affect the food companies.
6. food national policies designed and implemented the Cabinet of Ministers created the Latvian food centre located under the Ministry of welfare.
7. The Latvian food centre is headed by a Director, who is appointed and released from Office by the Cabinet of Ministers on the recommendation of the Minister of welfare.
8. The Latvian food centre operates in accordance with the regulations approved by the Cabinet of Ministers. The Latvian food centre's main activities are: 1) organize and coordinate these rules determine the food monitoring, as well as State Food Council proposals and programmes;
2) implementation of those rules to organise the necessary draft legislation and national food quality standard of minimum requirements for project development;
3) to collect and publish information on food quality issues;
4) explain the producers, traders and consumers in the food chain, as well as the regulatory framework in this area to cooperate with the media;
5) ensure and enforce international food quality issues;
6) confirm the official food inspection and other reviews to develop laboratory methods or aprobē new validation methods;
7) to evaluate and approve the Cabinet in the cases provided for in the food and processing technical regulations, standards and other regulatory requirements of food legislation for the application of the Republic of Latvia;
8) take on food quality system expertise for certification body accredited in the national systems;

9) take with food control laboratory expertise related to accreditation in the national accreditation system, organize the training of specialists and laboratory activities;
10) take with food research and quality assessment (expertise) associated laboratory investigations.
9. The Latvian food centre is funded from the State budget.
10. to develop the concept of the food supervision and coordinate its marketing, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Council of the food establishment that is a food Center advisory functions.
11. Food Council operates under the Cabinet of Ministers approved the Statute of the Council.
12. Food Council levels and the number of representatives from State and local government institutions, the science of producers, traders, consumers and public organizations determines food Council regulations. Food composition of the Council must include the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Ministry of welfare, the Ministry of Finance, the environment and regional development Ministry, the Ministry of transport, Ministry of agriculture and State Veterinary Department representatives.
13. the national food control and supervision shall be carried out by officials representing the following institutions: 1) environmental health service authorities;
2 of the State revenue service) financial inspection;
3) environmental inspection;
4) national veterinary service institutions;
5) Ministry of agriculture national food quality inspection;
6) trading supervisory National Committee.
Their rights and obligations and competencies determined by a Cabinet of Ministers approved the regulations developed pursuant to these provisions, the law «On protection of consumer rights», «on» veterinary medicine law and regulations.
14. The rules referred to in paragraph 13 of the officials of the institution indicating the service card, entitled: 1) visit food companies to make food the national surveillance;
2) require monitoring and controls the necessary information and documents;
3) for the purposes of supervision of food research food companies and Cabinet in the cases provided for in the rules and to the extent of taking food samples for laboratory examination;
4) under existing legislation to final clarification of circumstances to suspend food companies or departments concerned work or suspend production, if they suspected dangers to human health;
5) prohibit any food, including imported food products, distribution or denature the products if the organoleptic (sensory) the investigation established that they are damaged or do not comply with standards or technical regulations, or evidence that they are harmful to human health or dangerous to life;
6) seize the food if they are harmful to human health or dangerous to life or are illegally distributed;
7) with Bacon, the existing legislation on the administrative punishment of food regulations, if necessary, prepare the materials to the Prosecutor's Office of prosecution of persons guilty of criminally.
15. The rules referred to in paragraph 13 of the officials of the institution for its action and decision justice response in accordance with the procedure prescribed by law.
The third chapter and its Food chain, 16. "says produce and/or distribute only food that meets minimum quality requirements.
17. Food minimum quality requirements and testing procedures determined by the Cabinet of Ministers regulations.
18. food certification of the conformity of the national system of accredited or authorized departments — certification authority, which consists of a network of the country's national food certification centre.
19. The national food certification center is founded and operates on the basis of the Cabinet law.
20. the international conformity certification of food may be carried out internationally recognized institutions. Certified foreign food distribution in Latvia allowed by national food certification centres agreed and approved in the certificate and the certification mark specimen list.
21. Fee for the regulations and technical rules, as well as around the strengthening of food certification shall be borne by the person wishing to obtain the certificate (the applicant).
22. food certificates are issued by a certification authority, on the basis of the national system of accredited or authorized testing laboratory test results.
23. The national system of accredited or authorized laboratories conducting food quality inspection, operating as a company (the company), and they can start only after the license (special permission) to receive national food certification centre.
24. Food chain to ensure food quality and turn off any chance to pollute or make invalid the human consumption.
25. Food only allowed to add additives, and in such quantities as to any particular foodstuff or group of foodstuffs after the Cabinet's mandate, "said the Latvian food centre.
26. The harmful contamination of foodstuffs must not exceed the maximum levels proposed by the Cabinet's mandate defined by the Latvian food centre.
27. the drinking water as well as water used in the food chain or food related inventory and equipment, as well as ice, used for direct cooling, must comply with the national drinking water standard, except the processing of fresh fish on the high seas when the technological food chain processes can also use sea water.
28. the Cabinet of Ministers regulations govern the hygienic and safety requirements for food business purposes: 1) rooms, technological equipment, inventory, also kitchen containers and packaging materials, packaging;
2) food transport vehicles;
3) detergents, synthetic materials, disinfection, and other features.
29. food shall be prohibited from the use of radiation sterilization, except where the application is received by the Latvian food centre authorised.
C t u r e t o a n d a ¶ ä food labelling or marking 30. Republic of Latvia distributed food products must be labelled in accordance with the existing laws and regulations and technical documents.

31. the foodstuffs produced in the labelling information must be in the language of the country, easily visible, clear objective, it should reflect the quality of the product and other indicators. In addition to the information in the national language information can be also in foreign languages.
32. If Latvia is bulk imported food products, the labelling must indicate the country of manufacture, the firm and the date of manufacture.
33. Some groups of consumers for food products in addition to the marking prescribed for use of the other. food production for the different labels (eco-friendly foods, nutrition for infants, diabetics, animals, etc.) under the Cabinet of Ministers ' rules.
34. the labelling and advertising it is prohibited to use information which foodstuff attribute properties, which is not scientifically justified.
35. On the conformity of the actual marking of food products and is responsible for the contents of a prepackage is the undertaking which has packed food products. (Importing) imported prepackaged food products for compliance with the content of the label is responsible food exporter and importer.
P i t a d EC à a food from ¶ 36. companies in the food chain can engage only those food companies that comply with this provision, the law «On business», «the law On veterinary medicine», «law On protection of consumer rights» and Cabinet requirements.
37. food company quality system certification by the application made by the undertaking concerned carries out in the national system of accredited institution quality system certification.
38. food company quality system international certification bodies recognized by international companies.
39. Expenditure associated with the certificate, health certificate and other quality documents, shall be borne by the applicant entering into contractual relations with the relevant authority.
40. Food Company is responsible for the distribution of food quality and compliance with these terms and the other terms of the Cabinet of Ministers.
41. Food company manufacturing process ensures quality control of food products according to standards or technical regulations and is responsible for the production of food quality and safety for human health, whether or not the full production cycle was on the spot or been involved in other natural or legal persons.
42. The food related work can work only in people who have a Ministry of welfare in the order performed medical tests positive opinion. Each food company, which is in direct contact with the food in different stages of its life, must be regularly checked and respected health personal and food hygiene requirements in accordance with the provisions of the Cabinet of Ministers. The results of the inspection the employee receives the document.
Chapter 6 of the food import, export and transit of the 43. Republic of Latvia uptake into the only foodstuffs which comply with the legislation in force and the provisions of the Cabinet of Ministers.
44. it shall be prohibited to be imported into the Republic of Latvia in the distribution of food products, which are not law or the Cabinet of Ministers regulations for supporting the quality of the accompanying document (Declaration produced or conformity certificate), or with which the said accompanying document quality scores are lower than in the Republic of Latvia the minimum quality requirements laid down.
45. in documentation accompanying the foodstuffs to be imported to the ownership of specified foods, expiry date, and any other laws or provisions of the Cabinet.
46. the national veterinary service, environmental health services and public inspection of the plant protection Inspectorate in matters within their competence, are entitled to the full load in accordance with customs rules and quality testing to take samples of the food import, but suspected cases suspend food shipment to the laboratory test results or to prohibit the use of food in the food chain.
47. the import (export) food cargo owner by this provision in paragraph 46 Executive demand should enable the food cargo inspection.
48. the expenditure related to the analysis of samples of the food and food storage frontier food control during the bear.
the owner of the goods.
49. In the case of foods is authorised for distribution only.
in the original and undamaged packaging.
50. For food imports is not considered a human personal use for food] customs legislation at the level. Cabinet of Ministers regulations may provide food products banned for import as food intended for personal use.
51. food and its components allowed to export under the legislation of the Republic of Latvia, international agreements and the requirements of the importing country. Other transactions with foreign countries these rules supplement the Republic of Latvia signed an international agreement.
52. food requirements for transit through the territory of the Republic of Latvia shall determine the Customs regulatory legislation.
S in t he put a ept ¶ (a) with the distribution of invalid food 53. food distribution of invalid if: 1) it has found signs of deterioration in the organoleptic (sensory)» investigation;
2) validity period has elapsed it;
3) it has not marked accordingly;
4 it does not require the accompanying document) (manufacturer's declaration or certificate of conformity);
5) it does not meet the food minimum quality requirements;
6) it is falsified;
7) provided for the Cabinet.
54. the distribution of food for future use with other products for recycling certain technological mode, as well as the destruction order, determined by the Ministry of welfare approved instruction, but arrangements for the distribution of invalid food is processed into feed, — the Ministry of Agriculture approved instruction. The costs associated with the distribution of ^ invalid food processing or destruction shall be borne by the owner of food products.
Chapter eight final issue 55. These rules and related legislation in the depletion of the disciplinary, administrative and criminal responsibility in accordance with the procedure prescribed by law.
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To create a national accreditation system for food quality inspection laboratory accredited by the Ministry of welfare and the power up food inspection laboratory accreditation by the Commission in accordance with the regulations approved by the Minister of welfare.
Prime Minister v. Birkavs State reform Minister, Deputy Prime Minister m. cock 1994 in Riga on July 12.