The recent decision of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) introduces new strict rules for phytosanitary control aimed at combating gray schemes in trade. According to updates to the relevant Regulation of the EAEU, temporary sanctions will be imposed for indicating false recipients in documentation.
The main goal of these innovations is to prevent cases where the phytosanitary certificates list a company that is not actually receiving the products. If the control authorities of the destination country identify a discrepancy between the actual recipient and the one indicated in the documents, they will immediately notify the exporting country. In the case of repeated violations, the exporter may face serious consequences: the authorized body of the exporting country will be required to suspend the issuance of new phytosanitary certificates for recipients from that state for a period of up to 60 days.
The Ministry of Agriculture notes that such measures are aimed at cleaning the market of unscrupulous players and ensuring maximum transparency in the movement of quarantine products within the Union. The EEC is confident that the two-month ban on the issuance of documents will be an effective tool against the use of fictitious companies and will significantly enhance the level of biological and food safety in the EAEU territory.
