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Law No. 60 Of 29 October 1974 On The Veterinary Health

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 60 din 29 octombrie 1974 sanitară veterinara

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LEGE no. 60 60 of 29 October 1974 (* republished *) VETERINARY HEALTH ACT *)
ISSUER GREAT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Published in OFFICIAL MONITOR no. 626 626 of 2 September 2003



--------------- Note * *) Republicated pursuant to art. III of Government Ordinance no. 62/2001 for completion Veterinary Health Law no. 60/1974 ,, introduced by Law no. 758/2001 on approval Government Ordinance no. 62/2001 for completion Veterinary Health Law no. 60/1974 , giving the texts a new numbering. Veterinary Health Law no. 60/1974 was republished in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 266 of 30 December 1991 and has been amended and supplemented by: - Government Ordinance no. 104/1998 for amendment Veterinary Health Law no. 60/1974 , published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 321 of 28 August 1998, approved with amendments by Law no. 254/1998 , published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 516 516 of 30 December 1998; - Government Emergency Ordinance no. 42/1999 for completion Veterinary Health Law no. 60/1974 , published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 151 of 13 April 1999, approved with amendments and additions by Law no. 62/2000 , published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 185 185 of 28 April 2000; - Government Emergency Ordinance no. 90/2000 to amend and supplement Veterinary Health Law no. 60/1974 , published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 310 of 5 July 2000, approved with amendments and additions by Law no. 374/2002 , published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 483 483 of 5 July 2002; - Government Emergency Ordinance no. 61/2001 on the amendment Veterinary Health Law no. 60/1974 , published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 231 231 of 7 May 2001, approved with amendments by Law no. 538/2001 , published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 661 661 of 22 October 2001; - Government Ordinance no. 62/2001 for completion Veterinary Health Law no. 60/1974 , published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 531 531 of 31 August 2001, approved with amendments and additions by Law no. 758/2001 , published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 3 3 of 7 January 2002. + Chapter I General provisions + Article 1 Defending animal health and preventing the transmission of animal diseases to humans is a state problem and constitutes a permanent task for all units, as well as a duty for all the inhabitants of the country. + Article 2 Heads of state, public and any other animal holding establishments, as well as those who process, store, transport and capitalize on animal products, as well as animal keepers or who value products of animal origin, bear the responsibility for the application and observance of measures to ensure animal health and the sanitation of animal products. + Article 3 Veterinary health activity in Romania is carried out after a unified conception and must contribute to the increase of animal herds by improving birth indices, prolificity, increasing productive potential and ensuring the sanitation of food of animal origin. + Article 4 The state supports the activity of animal health defense and disease prevention that can be transmitted from animals to humans, by organizing specialized technical assistance, providing the necessary technical-material basis and establishing norms mandatory veterinary health for all units and all citizens of the country. + Chapter II Duties and responsibilities of veterinarians + Article 5 (1) Veterinary doctors shall be responsible for the application of animal health protection measures to all animal-holding establishments and to households and to those to ensure the sanitation of products of animal origin in establishments. manufacturing, processing, storage, transport and recovery, located on the territory in which they operate. (2) In order to carry out these duties, veterinarians have the following duties and responsibilities: a) to organize on time and in good conditions the veterinary health operations to detect and prevent infectious and parasitic diseases in animals; b) organize the detection of animals with breeding disorders and ensure the application of the necessary treatments for the increase of the birth rate; c) in case of epizootic diseases or suspicion of these diseases, specify the diagnosis, establish and control the application of the control measures and inform the disease and the measures taken, no later than 12 hours after the finding, higher hierarchical veterinary health authorities and other interested units; d) to provide the animal health care to animals whose health they are responsible for; e) to ensure the control of food products of animal origin in all phases of processing, storage, transport and recovery, in order to prevent the entry into the food circuit of products contaminated with transmissible germs in humans. + Article 6 Veterinarians and human doctors jointly respond to the establishment and application of the most effective measures to prevent and combat common human and animal diseases, as well as to prevent human infections by eating food. animal origin. To this end they are obliged to inform each other, operatively, of any situation that requires common measures and to undertake, each in the sector in which they work, all the necessary actions according to their obligations. + Article 7 (1) Veterinary doctors established by the National Veterinary Health Agency with duties of state veterinarian have free access to animal holding units and those that process, store, transport or capitalize on products of origin. animal. (2) The access of state veterinarians to the units of the Ministry of National Defence or the Ministry of Administration and Interior will be made under the conditions established by them, together with the National Veterinary Health Agency. (3) State veterinarians may order the destruction of unsanitary animal products, the detention of those suspected of contamination or alteration, in order to carry out the necessary samples and may stop, until the health conditions are met veterinary, production activities of slaughterhouses or processing units, storage, transport and valorisation of products of animal origin. + Article 8 The measures established by state veterinarians, in the exercise of their duties, are mandatory for all establishments and individuals on the territory in which they operate. + Chapter III Obligations of animal keepers and establishments processing, storing, transporting and harnessing products of animal origin + Article 9 In order to carry out the activity under the conditions established by the veterinary health rules, state, public and any other animal holding units, as well as those that process, store, transport and capitalize on the following obligations are, where appropriate, animal origin: a) apply the veterinary and animal health rules on the housing, feeding, care, reproduction and rational exploitation of the animals, as well as the measures laid down by the veterinary health authorities; b) to execute veterinary health measures to prevent the introduction into zootechnical units of communicable diseases, as well as to liquidate and prevent the diffusion of these diseases from contaminated units, ensuring for this purpose all conditions necessary materials and organizational; c) to submit to the medical examination the personnel of the zootechnical units, prohibiting sick persons or carrying infectious germs that can be transmitted to animals or contaminate food of animal origin to work in these units; d) to maintain, in strict compliance with the veterinary health rules, the places of processing, storage and valorisation of animal products, the means for the transport of animals and products of animal origin, summer camps for animals, adaptations and pastures they use; e) to announce, without delay, the veterinary health district and the local council the occurrence or suspicion of a communicable disease in animals, and until the arrival of the veterinarian, to isolate sick animals, death or cut out of necessity, being prohibited from the use or sale of meat and other products from these animals without the approval of the state veterinarian. It is exempted from the obligation to announce cases of illnesses caused for the purpose of production of biopreparations or for carrying out scientific research. + Article 10 Animal-owning individuals, in order to prevent the occurrence and diffusion of epizootic diseases, have the following obligations: a) notify in a maximum of 24 hours the local veterinary health authorities when they acquire animals from other localities, belonging to equine, bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine species and not to introduce in herds or herds for the one a little 15 days these animals; b) allow the state veterinary health personnel to check the health of the animals in their own household and to support it in carrying out veterinary health operations; c) present the animals for carrying out veterinary health operations at the place, date and time established by the veterinary health authorities d) to notify without delay to the veterinary health district or to the local council the occurrence of cases of disease in animals, death or cutting of their necessity, and until the arrival of the veterinary health personnel, to isolate the sick animals, bodies, meat, organs and other products resulting from the cutting, being prohibited from the use or sale of meat and other products from these animals without the approval of the state veterinarian. + Article 11 Any person who through his activity comes in contact with animals has the obligation to notify without delay to the veterinary health authority or to the local council the occurrence of cases of animal diseases. + Article 12 The units of the Ministry of National Defence and the Ministry of Administration and Interior are obliged to notify without delay to the local state veterinarian the cases of communicable diseases occurring in the animals they possess, to inform him about the evolution of these diseases and to apply the measures to combat and prevent the diffusion of diseases through veterinary health personnel. At establishments which do not have their own veterinary health personnel, these measures shall apply by the State veterinarian. + Chapter IV Prevention and control of communicable diseases in animals + Article 13 (1) In order to combat and prevent the expansion of epizootic diseases, when transmissible diseases are found in animals or when they are suspected of such diseases, mandatory quarantine measures are established, differentiated in relation to the severity of the disease, of the diffuse and peculiarities of the transmission routes, under the conditions established by the National Veterinary Health Agency. (2) If the diseases found have high diffusibility and present a special danger, with the approval of the National Veterinary Health Agency, it can be prohibited to enter or leave the quarantine zone and persons. The compensation that can be granted to persons in such situations is regulated by Government decision. + Article 14 (1) The establishment and lifting of quarantine measures shall be established, in relation to the extension and danger of the disease, by the local or county councils, respectively of the city of Bucharest, as the case may be, on the basis of the State veterinarian. (2) At military units the establishment and lifting of quarantine measures shall be established by the commanders of the units, based on the finding of their own veterinarians. At establishments that do not have their own veterinarian, the finding will be made by the state veterinarian. + Article 15 (1) The quarantine measures established by the local or county councils, respectively of the city of Bucharest, within the territorial-administrative area in which they operate, are mandatory for all legal and physical persons. (2) In order to support actions to combat communicable diseases, by decision of the local or county council, respectively of the city of Bucharest, anti-epizootic commands are constituted, made up of leaders of the units on the respective territory and other persons to whom tasks are carried out in the application of the measures transmitted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment, on the control of diseases. These commands are responsible for the application of all measures to prevent and liquidate epizootic diseases. (3) If the epizootic presents a special danger to the national economy, with the approval of the Government is the central anti-epizootic command, made up of heads of ministries and other central bodies concerned, which sets out the measures that are required in all social-economic sectors and are responsible for their application under the law. (4) On the proposal of local anti-epizootic commands, the county councils and the city of Bucharest may suspend the loading and unloading operations of animals, animal products and feed in railway stations, places of loading-unloading in the means of car transport, ports and airports located in the quarantine zone, or to make these operations conditional on compliance with special veterinary health restrictions. The application of the measure will be made with the announcement of the central bodies coordinating the affected transport + Article 16 Local or county councils, respectively of the city of Bucharest, at the proposal of the state veterinarian, can also maintain after the lifting of quarantine measures some restrictions on the movement of animals and products. + Article 17 (1) In order to defend the animal health of industrial zootechnical units, the location, design and execution of constructions and related installations will be done in compliance with the veterinary health norms established by the Agency National Veterinary Health. (2) Of the commission for the reception of these objectives, in all cases, a veterinarian from the county veterinary health authority or the city of Bucharest will be a member. (3) The National Veterinary Health Agency establishes veterinary health technologies for each type of exploitation in industrial type zootechnical units, equipment norms with equipment and machinery necessary to prevent and combat epizootic diseases, as well as normatives on anti-epizootic protective equipment. (4) At the commissioning of industrial type zootechnical units, the county veterinary health authorities and the city of Bucharest establish anti-epizootic protection zones in which special prophylaxis measures will be applied. + Article 18 (1) The access of any person to industrial zootechnical units shall be prohibited, without compliance with the health filter regime. (2) It is also prohibited to introduce and remove animals, feed, materials, objects and means of transport, without complying with the specific rules and restrictions established for such establishments. (3) The leaders of the respective units shall be responsible for carrying out these measures. + Article 19 ((1) In the case of actions of particular importance that are undertaken for the rapid liquidation of outbreaks of communicable diseases, the slaughter of animals and other measures necessary to prevent the diffusion of epizootic diseases and to defend the health of livestock, compensation shall be granted, to the owners of animals slaughtered or otherwise affected regardless of whether the animals in question are insured or not. (2) The slaughter of animals and other measures necessary to prevent epizootic diseases and to defend the health of livestock, in the case of actions of special importance provided in par. (1), shall be approved under the conditions established by Government decision. (3) Animal owners, who have not announced without delay the disease of animals, have not isolated sick animals and those who have not complied with the measures established by the veterinary health authorities do not have the right to compensation. ((4) The payment of compensation shall be made from the funds provided for the control of the epizootions, at the replacement value at the market price of the animal slaughtered, as the case may be, to the amount of loss suffered by the owner by rendering, freezing or affecting in another way of the animal, on the date when the action was taken to liquidate the outbreaks of disease or to assuage them, in compliance with the legal provisions in force. (5) The establishment and reconstitution of the safety stock of viral material and trivalent anti-afftos vaccine, for use in case of necessity, is approved under the conditions established by Government decision. ((6) The expenses related to the production, storage, preservation of the viral material and the trivalent anti-afftos vaccine, those occasioned by its destruction after the loss of the immunizing value, as well as the recovery of the stock shall be borne from the credits budget allocated through the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment to the Chapter "Material expenditures to combat epizootions". + Article 20 ((. The movement of animals and products of animal origin within the country shall be subject to state veterinary checks. (. In order to prevent the dissemination of communicable diseases by the movement of animals and products of animal origin, it shall be a) removal from places contaminated with epizootic diseases of animals, products of animal or plant origin and any other products and materials that may be a carrier of contagion, without the approval of veterinary health authorities; b) interurban transport of animals and products of animal origin or movement of animals outside the commune, city or municipality without compliance with the veterinary health rules established by the National Veterinary Health Agency; c) boarding and landing of animals in other railway stations, ports and airports, than those authorized by the county veterinary health authorities or the city of Bucharest; d) the boarding of animals without the control of the state veterinarian, as well as the performance of this operation during the night, except when an appropriate artificial lighting is provided for the veterinary examination in good conditions; e) carry out the transport of animals without providing the accompanying staff trained for the care and supervision of the animal health; f) the use of means of transport-auto, rail, naval and air-that do not meet all the hygiene and prophylaxis conditions established by the National Veterinary Health Agency through technical regulations of design, manufacture and use; g) continuation of transport without the consent of the state veterinarian, if cases of illness are found in the animal group. (3) The application of the measures provided for in this Article shall be responsible for the animal keepers, the mayors, the veterinary health authorities and, where appropriate, the units of the Ministry of Administration and the Interior or other ministries or central bodies of state administration that have powers regarding the movement and transport of animals. + Article 21 (1) The county veterinary health authorities or the city of Bucharest will issue veterinary authorization to stations, ports and airports only if they have the corresponding ramps and ensure the fulfilment of the conditions of prophylaxis for boarding and disembarking animals. ((2) Units holding means for the transport of animals and products of animal origin are obliged to organize stations or washing and disinfection points, in compliance with the technical conditions established by the National Veterinary Health Agency. + Article 22 The transport of animals affected by communicable diseases, products from these animals and foodstuffs of animal origin unfit for human consumption shall be permitted only for the purpose and in compliance with the conditions laid down in the the accompanying veterinary health certificate issued by the state veterinarian. + Article 23 (1) Animal owners are obliged to hand over the animal bodies to the units authorized by the county veterinary health authorities or the city of Bucharest, and in case their surrender or takeover is not possible, and it is certified this by the state veterinary health authority, to destroy them, in compliance with the veterinary health conditions established by the National Veterinary Health Agency. ((2) The use in animal feed of products of animal origin, unfit for human consumption, as well as of culinary residues, is allowed only after they have been sterilized, under the technical conditions established by the National Veterinary Health Agency. + Article 24 (1) Import, export and transit of animals, products of animal origin and feed shall be carried out only through the checkpoints for the crossing of the state border, established for this purpose by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment, by The National Veterinary Health Agency or the veterinary health conventions concluded with other countries. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment, through the National Veterinary Health Agency, organizes at these points the veterinary health control. (2) The units responsible for the administration of buildings and facilities at the control points for the crossing of the state border are obliged to take measures to ensure the conditions of carrying out the veterinary health activity, as well as the basis material and labour necessary to carry out disinfection, destruction of bodies, altered products and waste of animal origin. At road border points, these obligations lie with county councils. + Article 25 (1) The import and transit of animals, products of animal origin and feed may be made only with the prior opinion of the National Veterinary Health Agency. (2) The importing units are obliged to obtain the import notice from the National Veterinary Health Agency, before the conclusion of contracts with external suppliers. + Article 26 Animals, products of animal origin and feed imported or transited must be accompanied by veterinary health certificates stating that the veterinary health conditions laid down by the National Agency are fulfilled. Veterinary Health. + Article 27 (1) If communicable diseases are detected at the checkpoints for crossing the state border or there is suspicion of these diseases, the entire batch of animals will be returned over the border, and if this measure is not possible, the National Agency Veterinary Health may order immediate cutting and recovery under special conditions or killing of the entire batch of animals, as well as destruction of related objects and materials, announcing the veterinary health authority of the exporting country about the findings and the measures taken. (2) When the veterinary health agreements concluded by Romania with other states have been established otherwise, it will be done according to their provisions. + Article 28 (1) The imported animals shall be compulsorily subject to prophylactic quarantine, in isolated and specially arranged places, established by the county veterinary health authorities or the city of Bucharest, which will authorize the animals to be brought into these places only after verifying all the necessary preparatory conditions. (2) After the expiry of the prophylactic quarantine period, the imported animals will continue to be subject to veterinary health surveillance, under the conditions established by the National Veterinary Health Agency. + Chapter V Ensuring the sanitation of animal products + Article 29 It shall be prohibited to use products of animal origin which do not meet the conditions of sanitation corresponding to their destination. Sanitation conditions are established by the National Veterinary Health Agency. For products of animal origin intended for human consumption, they shall be established with the Ministry of Health. + Article 30 (. The operation of slaughterhouses, cutting points and establishments which process, store or harness products of animal origin shall be permitted only if they are also authorised by the state veterinary health authorities. (2) The authorization may be withdrawn if the heads of the units do not ensure compliance with the rules of hygiene and prophylaxis and the conditions necessary for the proper conduct of veterinary health activity. ((3) The operation of the animal and poultry cutting units, the collection, processing, processing, storage and recovery of products of animal origin, units established by order of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment, is allowed only if they have provided state veterinary health assistance, under the conditions of this law. (4) Technical assistance and veterinary inspection of animals, products of animal origin and other products and subjects subject to veterinary health control in the establishments referred to in paragraph 1. (3) shall be provided by the veterinary health personnel employed, under the law, for a fixed period, by the county veterinary health departments, respectively of the city of Bucharest. (5) The establishment of tariffs is made according to art. 33 33 para. ((4). (6) The value of the operations that are carried out in the exercise of the veterinary inspection and control activity shall be transferred monthly by the units provided in par. (3) in the account of the county veterinary health departments, respectively of the city of Bucharest, territorial competences, and constitute, for these, extra-budgetary funds intended for the financing of material and personnel expenses, which are record in accounting distinctly. + Chapter VI Organisation and operation of veterinary health services + Article 31 (1) The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment, through the National Veterinary Health Agency, establishes the unique and mandatory veterinary sanitary norms for all legal or physical persons holding animals, for those who process, store, transport and capitalize on animal products, participate in the elaboration of projects or endorse, under the law, conventions and international veterinary health agreements. Approves the approval of the methods and methodologies of veterinary medical paraclinical diagnosis, methods and techniques for the expertise of animal products and feed, as well as for the control of medicinal products and biological products and other veterinary medicinal products. (2) It also establishes the list of communicable diseases where mandatory prevention and control measures are established. (3) Together with the Ministry of Health, it is responsible for the organization and application of all necessary measures to prevent and combat common human and animal diseases, as well as to ensure the sanitation of animal products. The central specialized bodies of the two ministries will analyze periodically and whenever the results of the actions taken for this purpose are needed, setting out the necessary measures. (4) The actions contained in the Program for surveillance, prophylaxis and control of animal diseases, to prevent the transmission of diseases from animals to human and environmental protection, approved by the order of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and environment, is financed from budget credits allocated through the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment to the chapter "Material expenditures to combat expizootions". (5) Veterinary health activities of national public interest in the Program of surveillance, prophylaxis and control of animal diseases, prevention of transmission of diseases from animals to human and environmental protection can be conceived by doctors veterinarians with the right of free practice, based on the concession contract concluded with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment, in compliance with the provisions Law no. 219/1998 on the concession regime. (6) Veterinary health and transport health certificates on the territory of the country shall be issued by official veterinarians. (7) In the framework of the animal health and public health surveillance action the state veterinary health authority shall issue: veterinary health permits for the operation of the objectives and activities, under the conditions established by order of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and the Environment, Veterinary Health Authorizations for Transport Means, Veterinary Health Notices Import, Export, Transit, Location, Design and Construction of Health Control Objectives veterinary certificates, animal health certificates for animal transport, products of origin animal, animal feed and other goods subject to veterinary inspection, as well as animal health certificates for animal export and veterinary health certificates for the export of products, edible and non-edible by-products of animal origin, certified for the registration and re-registration of medicinal products, biological products and other veterinary products, certificates of empowerment and veterinary health arrangements for import. (8) The veterinary authorization of operation for the objectives, activities and means of transport subject to veterinary health control, provided in this law, shall be issued by the county veterinary health departments, respectively Bucharest, and, as the case may be, by the National Veterinary Health Agency, according to the legal provisions in force. (9) For the issuance of authorisations, the opinions and certificates provided for in the preceding paragraph shall be determined the fees contained in Annexes no 1-4 that are an integral part of this law, which are paid in advance, are constituted as income to the state budget and are regularly updated, depending on the inflation rate, by Government decision. (10) The veterinary health certificates for the intern shall also be issued by the official veterinarian. (11) The official veterinarian is the veterinarian empowered by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment, through the National Veterinary Health Agency, under the law, to perform some public duties. + Article 32 (1) The National Veterinary Health Agency organizes and responds to the production of biological preparations necessary for the detection, prevention and control of animal diseases; approves the introduction into practice of biological products, medicines, disinfectants, insecticides, raticides and other veterinary products, manufactured in the country or from import and ensure their state veterinary checks; lays down veterinary health rules on the production, circulation and use of veterinary medicinal products compound feed, protein-mineral supplements, and with the Ministry Health lays down rules on the use of biostimulants, tranquilizers, hormonal substances and other feed additives. (2) The National Veterinary Health Agency, together with the Ministry of Economy and Trade and the other central bodies which have subordinate units in which veterinary products are manufactured, shall be responsible for carrying out the programme for their production in the necessary quantities and the quality of the like products worldwide. + Article 33 (1) The state veterinary health network is organized as a distinct and autonomous sector within the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment, is coordinated by the minister and has the following structure: -The National Veterinary Health Agency, which is organized as a general direction in the structure of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment; -specialized public institutions with legal personality, as well as institutions without legal personality, subordinated to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment and in the technical coordination of the National Health Agency Veterinary, set out in Annex no. 5. ((2) Financing of the current and capital expenditure of the units set out in Annex no. 5 is ensured from allowances from the state budget and from extra-budgetary income. (3) The extra-budgetary income is constituted by the labor tariffs for veterinary and laboratory health activities, from consulting and other specific benefits: disinfection, disinsectional, deratization, exams and laboratory works, as well as other veterinary activities. (4) The amount of tariffs for extra-budgetary income is approved by order of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment, at the proposal of the Director General of the National Veterinary Health Agency. + Article 34 (1) The National Veterinary Health Agency is headed by a general manager, appointed by order of the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment, according to the law. (. In the exercise of his duties the Director-General shall issue (3) The National Veterinary Health Agency coordinates and controls the production of strategic biopreparations, the research activity financed from the budget of the central public administration, the supply of veterinary products and materials, and controls the production of veterinary medicinal products. + Article 35 The veterinary health police control the application and compliance with the provisions of the Veterinary Health Law and the issued unit norms, in all fields of activity. + Article 36 (1) Veterinary health care bands within autonomous regions, companies, associations and agricultural societies, as well as private veterinary health services, carried out through offices, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies and others, carry out their work with the opinion and under the technical guidance of the state veterinary health network. (2) Veterinary health bands and services provided in par. (1) shall be organized and operated on the basis of a regulation developed by the National Veterinary Health Agency. + Article 37 (1) The Ministry of Administration and Interior, the Ministry of National Defence and the other central bodies which subordinate units assigned to their own veterinarians shall be responsible for the application in these establishments of the veterinary health rules and of measures established by the National Veterinary Health Agency for the protection of animal health and ensuring the sanitation of animal products. (2) Veterinary doctors of the Ministry of National Defence and the Ministry of Administration and Interior are part of the single state veterinary system, having the same obligations and responsibilities within the units in which they operate as doctors State vets. (3) The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment, through local forestry units, is responsible for the application of the measures established by the veterinary health authorities to defend the health of wild animals and to prevent the dissemination of diseases transmissible from these to domestic or human animals. + Article 38 The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Water and Environment together with the Ministry of Administration and Interior and all their territorial units respond directly to the application and control of compliance with the provisions of this Law on the movement of animals and products of animal origin, the establishment and observance of quarantine measures and other measures of a republican or local nature necessary to prevent the diffusion of animal and animal diseases. + Article 39 The local or county councils, respectively of the city of Bucharest, respond to the good conduct of the veterinary health activity within the respective territorial-administrative area, in which they have the following main tasks: a) provide the necessary funds for the financing of veterinary health actions that are borne from local budgets; b) issue the necessary documents for the certificate of ownership of animals and the veterinary health in the locality, according to the norms established by the National Veterinary Health Agency; c) take measures for the maintenance and use, according to the veterinary health rules, pastures, public adapters, road crossing roads, places of agglomeration of animals in fairs, mills, slaughterhouses, cutting points, markets and places in the administration of local councils where they process, store and capitalize on products of animal origin; d) ensure the collection and destruction of animal bodies that cannot be erected by the rendering units; organize actions to collect stray dogs and ensure the application for this purpose of the techniques admitted by the veterinary sanitary norms international; arrange and maintain the places of storage of household debris, according to veterinary health rules. The amounts necessary to carry out the actions mentioned in this letter will be provided from the funds provided with this destination in the local budgets of the state administration; e) perform any other duties regarding the veterinary health activity, provided by the normative acts in force, and shall be responsible for the application of the measures established by the National Veterinary Health Agency for the protection of animal health and ensuring the sanitation of animal products. + Chapter VII Sanctions + Article 40 The violation of the provisions of this law attracts, as appropriate, disciplinary, material, civil, contravention or criminal liability. + Article 41 (1) Failure to comply with measures regarding the declaration, prevention or control of infectious diseases in animals, if it had as a result the spread of such a disease or other serious consequences, is punishable, according to art. 310 of the Criminal Code, with imprisonment from one month to one year or fine. (2) If the act had particularly serious consequences, the punishment is imprisonment from 1 to 5 years. ((3) The same penalties apply to those who knowingly hide the occurrence of an infectious disease in animals or oppose the application of measures to liquidate epizootic outbreaks and prevent the diffusion of diseases. + Article 42 (1) Failure to comply with measures regarding the prevention or control of infectious diseases, if it had as a result the spread of such animal disease to humans, is punishable by imprisonment from one month to 2 years. (2) If the act had particularly serious consequences, the punishment is imprisonment from 2 to 7 years. + Article 43 Violation with the science of a duty of service in veterinary health, committed under the conditions of art. 248 248 para. 1 of the Criminal Code, is punishable by imprisonment from 6 months to 5 years, and if the act is committed under the conditions of art. 248 248 para. 2 of the Criminal Code, is punishable by imprisonment from 5 to 15 years, prohibition of some rights and partial confiscation of wealth. + Article 44 The culpable violation of a duty of service in the veterinary health activity, committed under the conditions of art. 249 249 para. 1 of the Criminal Code, is punishable by imprisonment from one month to 2 years or with a fine, and if the act is committed under the conditions of art. 249 249 para. 2 of the Criminal Code, is punishable by imprisonment from 2 to 10 years. + Article 45 If the act provided for in art. 43 and 44 is committed under the conditions shown in art. 258 of the Criminal Code, the punishment is determined according to the provision in this article. + Article 46 The facts that constitute contraventions to veterinary health norms, as well as persons who can find contraventions and apply sanctions, shall be established by Government decision. Under the conditions established by the Government, contravention sanctions can also be applied to legal entities. + Article 47 Annexes no. 1-5 are an integral part of this law. + Chapter VIII Final provisions + Article 48 (1) This law shall enter into force 90 days after its publication in the Official Bulletin of Romania *). (2) The same date shall be repealed Decree no. 167/1955 on the organization of animal health defense, published in the Official Bulletin no. 9 9 of 19 May 1955. ----------- Note *) The provisions of art. 31 31 para. ((1) and art. 33-36, which entered into force on 16 December 1991. NOTE: We reproduce below art. II of Government Ordinance no. 62/2001 for completion Veterinary Health Law no. 60/1974 , approved with amendments and additions by Law no. 758/2001 ,, which was not included in the republished form of the Veterinary Health Law no. 60/1974 , republished: "" Art. II. -Within 60 days from the date of entry into force of this ordinance, by order of the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry will be approved the instructions1) for the organization and conduct of the activities carried out by the personnel veterinary health in establishments referred to in art. 30 30 para. ((3) of Law no. 60/1974 , republished, as amended and with those brought by this ordinance. " ------------ 1 1) The instructions were approved by Order of the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry no. 400/2001 , published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, no. 742 742 of 21 November 2001, as amended. + Annex 1 OBJECTIVES, ACTIVITIES AND MEANS OF TRANSPORT for which veterinary health permits are issued No. crt.Objective/Activity 1.Household type incubation station 2.Summer camp for animals 3.Stana 4.Stupina 5.Menajerie 6.Point of artificial seeding in animals 7.Genoteca of animals 8.Animal exhibition and zoo 9.Shop for animals Marketing of pets, exotic birds and fish and/or food, baits and the like 10.Animal farm 11.Targ of animals 12.Natural mountings in animals 13.Veterinary health reference 14.Point pharmaceutical veterinary 15.Veterinary medical office 16.Laboratory feed control 17.Laboratory veterinary health 18.Dispensary veterinary health 19.Canisa, shelter for dogs 20.School for dog training 21.University veterinary clinics 22.Fish pools for increasing fish material 23.Station (point) of washing and disinfection means of transport 24.Incubation station type industrial 25.Basins of fish for biological material 26.Veterinary pharmacy 27.Units of veterinary medical technique 28.Herghelie 29.Deposit of semen 30.Base of animal procurement 31.Veterinary clinic or veterinary hospital 32.Pension for pets 33.Pet shop 34.Warehouse of veterinary products 35.quarantine farm, animal collection centres 36.Disinfection units, disinsectisation and deratization 37.Reproduction and animal selection units 38.Factory for food animals 39.Scientific research units, including those using experience animals 40.Specialized units for the production of biostimulators, premixes and medicated fodder 41.Units for the production of biopreparations or Veterinary medicinal products 42.Unites of semen collection 43.Factory of compound feeds 44.Factory producing drugs, biopreparations and other veterinary products 45.Sects, animal cemeteries, crematoria 46.Center collection milk 47.Center collection eggs 48.Center honey collection 49.Cantina 50.Unities industrial processing of corpses, products of animal origin confiscated, non-edible by-products 51.Incinerators for products of animal origin confiscated, non-edible by-products Center collection over 55.Center collection of old people, gasteropode, crustacean, seafood 56.Center collection, milk processing 57.Carmangerie, butchery 58.Unities portioning, prepacking meat and meat products 59.Workshop processing fish, products from over 60.Portioning units, prepacking products dairy 61.Units collection-storage eggs 62.Honey collection and processing units, other bee products 63.Workshop meat preparations 64.Catering 65.Food storage, refrigerated warehouse 66.Restaurant, regardless of specific 67.Hala for undoing products of animal origin 68.The ice cream factory 69.Laborator confectionery and/or laboratory pastry 70.Unities machining old people, gastropods, crustaceans, seafood 71.Factory meat products: canned, semiconserve, meat preparations, raw salami 72.Factory semi-prepared meat and mixed dishes 73.Meat cutting units 74.Units processing natural membranes 75.Manufacturing artificial membranes 76.Canned factory, semiconserve over 77.Factory milk products 78.Factory products 79.Abator 80.XX_ENCODE_CASE_CAPS_LOCK_On refrigerated warehouse 81.Supermarket 82.Combined meat No. crt. The means of transport 1.Slep 2.Vagon for animal transport 3.Vagon refrigeration and isoterm for animal products 4.Fishing vessel, cargo aircraft 5.Middle car specialized for animal transport, animal products, feed animal origin, veterinary products and other products subject to veterinary inspection NOTE: The objectives, activities and means of transport covered by veterinary checks and not covered by this Annex shall be subject to veterinary inspection, in accordance with the veterinary health regulations in force, and operates on the basis of the trader's self-declaration. + Annex 2 TARIFFS for release of health veterinary import, export, transit, agreement veterinary health for import, the certificate of empowerment and the certificate of registration and drug reregistration, biological products and other veterinary products No. crt.Specification. M. Lei/U. M. /product 1.HEALTH VETERINARY INSPECTION: -feed materials, concentrated feed, cotton, premixes, feed additives, protein flours, pulvis drugs and others; tona300-small animals for breeding, small animals for butchery, small animals for competition, exhibitions, birds exotic; cap300-medium-sized animals for butchery, medium-sized animals for breeding; cap300 2.-hatching eggs; 1,000 pieces 3.-large animals for slaughter, large animals for competition, large animals for breeding; cap2,500-birds for meat; cap500-birds for breeding, pigeons for competition, exhibitions, other manifestations; cap500 4.-day-old chicks; 1,000 cap.1.000-chicken breeding and/or growth; 1,000 head. 5.-pet animals (dogs, cats, monkeys and altele)cap5.000 6.-medicines, biological products, veterinary kits, other veterinary products, up to 1,000 vials; lot15,000 7.-veterinary medicinal products, other veterinary products, between 1,000-5,000 vials; lot20,000 8.-veterinary medicines, veterinary products, over 5,000 vials; lot40,000 9.-bee families; familienu is charged 10.-eggs for consumption1,000 buc.2,500 11.-milk, condenat100 litri2,500 milk 12.-raw bacon, technical fats; tona4,000 13.-edible by-products (head, brain, tongue, belly, organs, membranes, etc.); tona5,000-lard, snail shells, inedible organs, horns, hooves, nails, ongloons, additives and food emulsifiers, bone glue, enzymes for the food industry, adhesives for the industry food, food protein isolate, food gelatin and technique; 14.-fresh dairy products (yogurt, whipped cream, etc.), milk powder, butter, cheeses, cheese, ice cream, including ice cream powder, ingredients and flavors for ice cream, by-products dairy (whey, casein), clot, silk donuts, spices, wool, raw skins, feathers, hair; tona10,000 15.-bee products (wax, pollen, venom, etc.); kg1,500 16.-silkworm eggs; kg15,000 17.egg products (dust, mayonnaise, melange, etc.), honey bees, artificial membranes; tona15,000 18.-live fish, fresh, chilled fish, frozen, fish products, including eggs, frog legs, meat snails, oysters, scallops, crayfish, seafood, big game, small game (in fur, in feathers); tona20,000-horned, canned and concentrated animal feed, meat (all species), canned, semi-preserved, meat preparations, including soups and sauces concentrates, semi-processed skins, slaughterhouse by-products for the pharmaceutical industry;-''-''-19.-hunting and fur trophies, 60,000 20.-other non-registered products; kg, hl, or other measuring units 5.000 21.-samples up to 100 kg total; not se-veterinary products for registration; toll-humanitarian aid;-donations in humanitarian aid of any kind; 22.CERTIFICATE OF EMPOWERMENT; kitchen250,000 23.CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION AND REREGISTRATION OF MEDICINES, BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS AND OTHER VETERINARY PRODUCTS; product7,000,000 24.VETERINARY HEALTH AGREEMENT DE IMPORT; kitcha30,000 25.NOTICE VETERINARY HEALTH FOR EXPORT: do not charge-animals, animal products, feed and other products subject to veterinary health control; 26.VETERINARY VETERINARY TRANSIT: do not charge-animals, products animal origin, feed and other products subject to veterinary inspection. NOTE: The fee for the quantities expressed in fractions against the unit of measure provided for in this Law shall be calculated in proportion to the approved quantity. + Annex 3 TARIFFS for the issue of veterinary health on location, design and construction objectives subject to veterinary inspection The fees for the release of the veterinary health opinion on the location, design and construction of new targets subject to veterinary inspection shall be 50% of the fee provided for the veterinary health authorization to operate to them. + Annex 4 TARIFFS for issuing health certificates veterinary for the internal transport of animals, products of animal origin, feed and other goods subject to veterinary checks, as well as health certificates for animal export and veterinary health certificates for export products, by-products edible and inedible of animal origin No. crt.Specification. M. Fee (lei/U.M.) 1.A. For internal: Veterinary health certificate for animal transport; not charged 2.Veterinary health certificate for transport of silkworm eggs not charged 3.Veterinary health certificate for transport pup of phytophagi fish, eggs embryos and brood of fish or fish intended for restocking; no............................................... not charged 6.Veterinary health certificate for transport feedingstuffs; tona5.000 7.Veterinary health certificate for transport eggs for hatching; no..................... -meat all species, including game shot intended for public consumption; not taxed-bacon, tallow, edible by-products: organs, intestines, stomachs;-technical fats, bones, hair, skins, horns, nails, hooves;-other products of animal origin unominable;-meat products (meat preparations, canned food, meat semiconpreserves, other meat products);-liquid milk and condensed milk;-fresh dairy products;-cheeses, butter, ice cream, milk powder, ice cream powder, casein;-other non-ominated milk products;-fish, chilled fish, frozen fish, fish salted, smoked fish;-canned, semi-preserved fish;-sturgeon eggs;-icre tarama;-other products from non-registered fish;-bee honey;-beekeeping products (beeswax, royal jelly, pollen, etc.);-other unregistered apiculture products;- eggs for consumption;-egg products (melange, egg powder, mayonnaise);-other non-nominated egg products. Animal health veterinary certificate for domestic; not charged B. For export: 10.Veterinary health certificate for animal export health and international transport certificate; no 11.Health certificate veterinary for the export of products, edible and non-edible animal by-products, except for trophies; not to be charged 12.Health veterinary health certificate for export trophies: -bears, deer; trophy 300,000-black goats; trophy 200,000-wild boars, rafters, deer; trophy 100,000-other wild animals (wolf, fox, wild cat, viezure, jder, etc.); trophy 100,000-furs; cook 100,000-deer horns, wild tusks; trophies -mountain roosters; trophies-25,000-rabbits, pheasants, ducks, wild geese, partridges; trophies-10,000-other wild birds (quails, pigeons, turtles, sites, gras, sturds etc.) NOTE: The fee for the quantities expressed in fractions against the unit of measure provided for in this Law shall be calculated in proportion to the approved quantity. + Annex 5 UNITS operating under the National Veterinary Health Agency No. crt. Name of unitationFinancing I. Public institutions with legal personality-allowances from the state budget and extra-budgetary income 1.Institute of Diagnostic and Animal Health-allowances from the state budget and extra-budgetary income 2.Institute of Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health-allowances from the state budget and extra-budgetary income 3.Institute for the Control of Biological Products and Veterinary Medications-allowances from the state budget and extra-budgetary income 4.The county veterinary departments and the city of Bucharest, including State veterinary health laboratories-allowances from the state budget and extra-budgetary income II. Public institutions without legal personality-allowances from the state budget and extra-budgetary income 1.Area veterinary sanitary Constitutions-allowances from the state budget and extra-budgetary income 2.Veterinary health control of animal products-allowances from the state budget and extra-budgetary income 3.Inspectorate of border veterinary inspection-allowances from the state budget and extra-budgetary income --------------