OREANDA-NEWS. September 20, 2010. The Federal Antimonopoly Service found that the St Petersburg Veterinary Department violated Clause 2 Part 1 Article 15of the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition” and issued a determination to eliminate the violations. The antimonopoly law prohibits unreasonable prevention of activities of economic entities, particularly, by fixing requirements to the goods or economic entities that are not provided for by the laws of the Russian Federation, reported the press-centre of FAS Russia.

The Veterinary Department violated the law by including the requirements for mandatory permission to exercise anti-epizootic measures that are not provided for by the current law of the Russian Federation, in the Department’s Order “On approving the Administrative Regulations of the St Petersburg Veterinary Department for exercising the state function for organization of anti-epizootic and other veterinary measures, including measures to prevent and eliminate centres of infections common for humans and animals and measures to protect St Petersburg from contagious animal diseases”.

According to the Regulations, to be granted such permission economic entities are required to obtain a Certificate of Inspection to confirm they meet the necessary conditions for anti-epizootic measures, which can be issued by veterinary stations on a paid basis.

In course of the investigation, FAS Russia established that normative legal acts of the Russian Federation do not require issuing permissions for animal vaccinations.

Having investigated the case, FAS Russia issued a determination to the St Petersburg Veterinary Department to eliminate the violation.