Moscow. November 20. The Ministry of agriculture of the Russian Federation has prepared amendments to the technical regulation of the Customs Union “On safety of milk and dairy products”, which, in particular, provide for the exclusion of such thing as a “cheese product”. The agriculture and food Ministry of Belarus is ready to support them.
As reported in the press service of the Ministry of agriculture, the document has been agreed in the relevant departments, the draft amendments sent to the Eurasian economic Commission.
In addition, the regulation proposes to clarify the concept of “cheese”, “cheese product”, to include the concept of “ice cream sherbet”, “curd cheese”.
The document also sets out the requirements for the surface of the label and (or) the front side of consumer packing milk-containing product, which will provide information about its commodity composition, and method for thermal processing a specially. Provided and other changes.
According to a press release from the Agency, proposed changes in the number of other issues were discussed during the meeting of Minister of agriculture of the Russian Federation Alexander Tkachev and Minister of agriculture and food of Belarus Leonid Zayats on Thursday.
Tkachev appealed to the leadership of the Ministry of agriculture of Belarus to support the Russian position in making decisions in the EEC. Hare confirmed that the positions of Russia and Belarus in this question converge, according to a press release.
