The veterinary control on border

With the purpose of protecting the territory of Ukraine from animal and bird diseases that could be brought from the territories of other states or quarantine zones, and with the purpose of protecting the population against the diseases common for animals and people, the import/export transportation of the following items is liable to veterinary control: animals and birds of all species, products and raw materials produced by animals, fish, bee, a silkworm, fodders, fodder additives, biologicals, veterinary medical agents, microbes, viruses and funguses, toxins and so forth.

These cargoes must be accompanied by veterinary documents of the standard pattern. The export veterinary certificates are issued by the establishments of the state medicine in the region of cargo origin, and import veterinary certificates are issued by the veterinary bodies of the exporting countries).

At exporting cargoes liable to the inspection of veterinary service the national veterinary certificates are exchanged for international veterinary certificates on frontier points of the state veterinary control.

At importing the cargoes liable to the inspection of veterinary service the international veterinary certificates are exchanged for national veterinary certificates on frontier points of the state veterinary control after passing cargo inspection in the state veterinary laboratory.

The state veterinary supervision and official registration of documents for import, export and transit of cargoes liable to veterinary control is chargeable service according to the applicable rates.

The owners exporting or importing cargoes liable to veterinary control should clarify and take into account the episodic situation in the importing and the exporting countries.

Plants Quarantine

According to Ukrainian regulations on plants quarantine, all tourists and passengers, both Ukrainian and foreign, who arrive to Ukraine from other states are forbidden to import the following materials liable to quarantine:

• seeds of cultivated and wild-growing plants;
• alive plants and their parts
  (tubers, roots, rhizomes, bulbuses etc.);
• soil and plants with soil
  ( sprouts, saplings, flowers in pots, etc.);
• aive hexapods, acarines nematodes and other harmful organisms;
• cultures of alive funguses, bacteria, viruses - plant pathogenic organisms;
• collections of insects, seeds and herbariums of various plants.

Import of fresh vegetables and fruits (except for potatoes) for persons is permitted up to 10 kgs for each kind.

In case of presence of above mentioned materials liable to quarantine in their luggage all tourists and passengers of the international transport lines must present these materials for check to the agriculturist supervisor of Public Service on Quarantine of Plants on frontier point, and irrespective of the term and the purposes of the arrival strictly execute the orders of the supervisor.

Please apply for information beforehand by tel.:
(+380 44) 281 73 92

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