Regulations Regarding Division of Authority Among Ministries to Ensure State Supervision

Republic of Latvia

Cabinet

Regulation No. 221

Adopted 16 June 1998

Regulations Regarding Division of Authority Among Ministries to Ensure State Supervision and Control of the Handling of Food

Issued pursuant to

Section 21 of the Law on the Supervision of the Handling of Food

1. These Regulations determine the division of authority among ministries in order to ensure State supervision and control in the domestic market for the handling of food in the following fields of activity:

1.1. control of food undertakings in accordance with inspection programmes;

1.2. control of food undertakings, if there is determined cause for suspicion regarding non-compliance of food products with the mandatory harmlessness and quality requirements, or in relation to consumer complaints.

2. State supervision and control of the handling of food in the fields of activity referred to in Paragraph 1 of these Regulations shall be ensured, in accordance with the division of authority and competence among ministries referred to in the Annex to these Regulations, by State supervision and control institutions subordinate to the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Welfare, and competent institutions authorised in accordance with the procedures determined in regulatory enactments.

Prime Minister G.Krasts

Minister for Agriculture A.Rāviņš

Annex

Cabinet Regulation No. 221

16 June 1998

Division of Authority Among Ministries to Ensure State Supervision and Control of the Handling of Food

No. / Name of the product group (according to the Combined Nomenclature of Latvia) / Code (according to the Combined Nomenclature of Latvia) / Handling stage
Acquisition, manufacturing (agriculture), transportation / Market 1 / Processing, industrial manufacturing, transportation / Wholesale warehouses, cold storage plants, transportation 1, 2 / Retail, public catering
1. / Meat and edible meat offal / 0200 / MoA / MofA / MoA / MoA / MoW
2. / Fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates / 0300 / MoA / MoA / MoA / MoA / MoW
3. / Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included / 0400 / MoA / MoA / MoA / MoA / MoW
4. / Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers, / 0700 / MoA / MoA / MoA / MoW / MoW
5. / Edible fruit and nuts; peel of citrus fruits or melons / 0800 / MoA / MoW / MoW / MoW / MoW
6. / Coffee, tea, maté and spices (other than maté) / 0900
(0903) / MoA / MoW / MoW / MoW / MoW
7. / Cereals / 1000 / MoA / MoA / - / MoA / MoW
8. / Products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten / 1100 / - / MoW / MoA / MoW / MoW
9. / Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits; miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; industrial or medicinal plants; straw and fodder / 1200 / MoA / MoA / MoA / MoW (for food) MoA (for processing) / MoW
10. / Lac; gums and resins and other saps and extracts of vegetable origin / 1300 / - / MoW / MoW / MoW / MoW
11. / Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes / 1500 / - / MoW (products of vegetable origin) MoA (products of animal origin) / MoW (products of vegetable origin)MoA (products of animal origin) / MoW (products of vegetable origin) MoA (products of animal origin) / MoW (products of vegetable origin) MoA (products of animal origin)
12. / Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates / 1600 / - / MoA / MoA / MoA / MoW
13. / Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form
Other sugars, including chemically pure lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose, in solid form; sugar syrups not containing added flavouring or colouring matter; artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey; caramel Molasses resulting from the extraction or refining of sugar
Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa / 1701
1702
1703
1704 / -
-
-
- / MoW
MoW
MoW
MoW / MoA
MoA
MoA
MoW / MoW
MoW
MoW
MoW / MoW
MoW
MoW
MoW
14. / Cocoa and cocoa preparations / 1800 / - / MoW / MoW / MoW / MoW
15. / Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' products / 1900 / - / MoW / MoW / MoW / MoW
16. / Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants / 2000 / - / MoW / MoW / MoW / MoW
17. / Composite food preparations / 2100 / - / MoW (products of vegetable origin) MoA (products of animal origin) / MoW (products of vegetable origin) MoA (products of animal origin) / MoW (products of vegetable origin) MoA (products of animal origin) / MoW
18. / Beverages, spirits and vinegar / 2200 / - / MoW / MoW / MoW / MoW
19. / Salt (including table salt and denatured salt) and pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free-flowing agents; sea water / 2501 / - / MoW / MoW / MoW / MoW
20. / Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues; enzymes / 3500 / - / MoW / MoW / MoW / MoW

Notes:

1 MoA – The Ministry of Agriculture

2 MoW - The Ministry of Welfare

Minister for Agriculture A.Rāviņš