From July 1, 2018, all enterprises involved in the circulation of goods of animal origin are required to issue electronic certificates to the FSIS "Mercury". What is "Mercury", and how to work in retail and catering in the new realities, read in our article.
According to the Federal Law of July 1, 2015 No. 243 “On Amendments to the Law of the Russian Federation “On Veterinary Medicine”, from July 1, 2018, goods controlled by the State Veterinary Supervision Service are subject to mandatory electronic certification in the GIS “Mercury”.
Note: item 5. FZ-243: Requirements of Articles 2.1 - 2.6 of the Law Russian Federation dated May 14, 1993 N 4979-1 "On Veterinary Medicine" (as amended by this federal law) in terms of exercising the rights and obligations officials veterinary service and other specialists in the field of veterinary medicine, individuals and legal entities, individual entrepreneurs when carrying out activities for the extraction (catch) of aquatic biological resources, processing, storage and sale of catches of aquatic biological resources and products made from them, they are applied after approval by the federal executive body in the field of regulatory legal regulation in veterinary medicine of regulatory legal acts regulating the creation of monitoring mechanisms veterinary safety of the regions of the Russian Federation and areas of extraction (catch) of aquatic biological resources, the use of risk profiles for conducting mandatory studies of products of animal origin, including catches of aquatic biological resources and products made from them, the formation of an exhaustive list of grounds for conducting laboratory studies of products of animal origin , including catches of aquatic biological resources and products made from them, but not earlier than January 1, 2016.
What is Mercury for?
The innovation was created to track the movement of goods across the territory of Russia, to obtain a single database of products or goods, and to automatically record the volume of products at the enterprise.
If earlier veterinary certificates were kept in paper form, now they will be replaced by electronic ones. This will reduce the time for the creation and execution of veterinary documentation and will lead to an increase in the biological and food safety of products.
In FSIS "Mercury" you can track the movement of controlled cargo. Eliminate, thus, the possibility of smuggling and falsification of products.
Penalties for non-use of FSIS Mercury
If the truck with the cargo is stopped by the control, the freight forwarder must show the UUID (unique identifier) or QR code of specific veterinary accompanying documents.
Without veterinary supporting documents, you will be fined. According to Art. 10.8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, the fine will be from 3,000 rubles if it is issued to the driver as an official, or from 10,000 to 20,000 rubles - to a legal entity. In the latter case, the suspension of activities for up to 90 days can also be punished.
If your company is in any way connected with food products of animal origin, which are controlled by Gosvetnadzor - from raw materials to the finished product in a store or restaurant - get ready to work in the system.
From July 1, 2018, FSIS "Mercury" should be connected: livestock farms, meat plants, poultry enterprises, seafood producers, enterprises Catering, dairies, carriers of regulated products, wholesale depots and retail stores.
Individual entrepreneurs, legal and individuals, whose activities are connected with any stage of product turnover. Veterinarians who serve enterprises will also register in the system.
Work of retail and public catering in the new conditions
At the end of December dates mandatory application"Mercury" was postponed until July 1, 2018 (the bill of December 26, 2017 was adopted by the State Duma in the third reading). But this does not mean that you can not register and not work in the system. It is already recommended to use "Mercury".
What will change at work
At the time of delivery and acceptance of products to a store or cafe, responsible employees must pay off the veterinary accompanying documents (VSD) for the transport lot in the Mercury system. If you accept the goods partially, then indicate the discrepancies.
IMPORTANT! If a cargo was brought to you and it is not in the Mercury system, then you cannot accept the goods.
If you are in the recycling business, then you need to add recycled products to the system and then write them off. You can track the entire chain of work in Mercury.
If you are transporting processed products, create a transaction in the system. To do this, add all the data about vehicle, the sending company and the receiving company, information about the consignment note.
Working with FSIS Mercury in the enterprise accounting system
Today there are two effective ways work with FGIS "Mercury": program and. These solutions will allow you to confirm sales and purchases of products of animal origin in your accounting system without additional uploads and manual entry of certificates.
Pictures with integration options
ASP company Electronic Services» automates work with FSIS "Mercury". Specialists register on the FSIS "Mercury" portal, teach how to work with the system and set up integration with 1C.
Please note that to work with FSIS "Mercury" you need the Internet and Additionally, we recommend purchasing a QR-code reader, which will help speed up the process of identifying veterinary certificates.
Deputy Head of Rosselkhoznadzor Nikolai Vlasov
To the attention of employees
bodies state power
in the field of veterinary medicine
and participants in production and turnover
products of animal origin
Dear ladies and gentlemen, colleagues,
I inform you that the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia with the participation of Rosselkhoznadzor, in connection with the imminent consideration of amendments to the Federal Law “On Veterinary Medicine”, which is aimed at the regulatory settlement of issues related to the conduct of veterinary certification and related procedures, has begun new stage work on the preparation of normative acts regulating these processes.
This work has begun right now because it was not possible to create these acts before the adoption of these amendments to the Federal Law “On Veterinary Medicine”, although we have already discussed approaches to solving accumulated problems and technological solutions that are planned to be fixed in these acts. In particular, when preparations were underway new edition rules of veterinary certification, which ended with the adoption of their new version which has disappointed many of you and made us feel dissatisfied.
For this purpose, created working group under the leadership of the Deputy Minister Agriculture Russian Federation A.V. Petrikov.
In order to timely take into account possible comments from the professional (veterinary) community, participants in the production and circulation of products of animal origin and animals, following the already established tradition, we will publish working versions of regulatory documents on this site in the process of working on them. We will be waiting for your feedback and suggestions.
In order to make it easier for you to navigate the logic of what we are trying to do, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that all the documents, the drafts of which we invite you to familiarize yourself with, form a single package. That they are interconnected and only the entire package (and not a separate document included in it) can solve the problems that we talked about solving with you earlier. Accordingly, the meaning of these normative acts becomes clear only if they are considered together.
What is included in this package?
First of all, it includes Rules for Veterinary Certification with additions and changes.
Rules for ensuring the identification and traceability of animals and products of animal origin.
From January 1, 2018, mandatory electronic veterinary certification (EVC) is introduced throughout Russia and the Customs Union, to introduce electronic system"Mercury" should be both agricultural producers and processors, wholesale and retail stores, catering establishments, as well as kindergartens, schools, hospitals receiving food.
All documents of veterinary control will be valid only in in electronic format are issued for products of animal origin of the entire cycle “from field to plate”, along the entire chain from origin (production, processing) to the point of sale, including transportation routes . .
The new system will make it possible to automatically record the incoming and outgoing volume of products at the enterprise (refrigerator, warehouse, checkpoint, etc.), enter and store information about the samples taken for the study of imported products, track the movement of a consignment across the territory of the Russian Federation, taking into account its crushing to end user: trade enterprises and catering.
Accompanying veterinary documents will also be required for the transportation of goods of animal origin (including fish). Shops in the districts of the region and wholesale depots will also have to use the connection to the "Mercury" system for electronic cancellation of issued documents.
Electronic certificates must be issued when receiving and moving products before retail stores and catering facilities.
From January 1, 2018, violators will pay fines for the lack of electronic accompanying documents, and restrictions on the access of livestock products to retail chains.
Each enterprise, depending on the category, included in the scope of production food products is obliged to have an authorized person and / or a certified specialist who can carry out veterinary certification of certain groups of goods along with employees of the state veterinary service.
The system of electronic veterinary certification "Mercury" should protect the consumer from low-quality and unsafe products and make the actions of supervisory authorities effective in combating fraud and excluding unreliable suppliers
On the one hand, it is a good thing - control over the quality of products is being strengthened, and paper veterinary certificates are being canceled, but.......
Involuntarily, you will remember the words of Chernomyrdin: We wanted the best, but it turned out as always!
I hope you remember very well the ideas that I voiced in a series of articles on AS: Russia is, as always, ahead of the planet: from capitalism to computer capitalism, and possibly to computer socialism
I claimed that
in the Russian Federation, the state is consistently building a General Integrated State System (OIGS), which will contain all information on economic activity in the Russian Federation - all shipments, payments, waybills, releases up to a unit of all goods, all salaries and dividend payments.
Including, in parallel there is a process of refusal of cash. As a result, this will lead to a significant reduction in the shadow sector, gray wages, an increase in the tax base and the possibility of controlling price collusion and the use of kickback systems in public procurement.
1) As I said, all departments are implementing their systems everywhere - so far it turns out a garden: one system is being built by industrialists, another by the Rosselkhoznadzor, a third by a banking system, a fourth by tax officials.
So far, there is no single governing body in the Government in order to bring all these disparate systems into a single base. Such a body is still in the plans (I will have an article about it).
2) Since all systems are introduced in parallel, the result for business is not a boon, but one headache. After all, they are forced to carry out the same operation using different information systems. This does not reduce the burden on the business, but rather increases it.
3) Business is already beginning to get bored with this bureaucratic lawlessness - why duplicate the same information many times in different information systems. Moreover, the bureaucracy, trying to make money on a "fashionable" digital topic, saves on the very quality of implementation, as a result, the business must work with a "raw" and low-quality product, with the impossibility of carrying out the operations required by law through "crooked" computer systems.
4) In the implementation of "numbers" you need Government program rather than the chaotic actions of individual ministries. A single body for the implementation of automation in Russia.
Today we will talk about the Mercury system (EMS), here are the latest news from the fields: Kommersant Food without a number (Regions are in no hurry with electronic veterinary certification of products)
The Ministry of Agriculture informed the government about the difficulties with the introduction of electronic veterinary certification (EVC), which will become mandatory for livestock products from 2018. Among the issues are the lack of funding for the process in the regions, the lack of staff and problems with Internet access. The hasty introduction of the system may cause an increase in food prices and stop the work of enterprises, market participants fear. The Ministry of Agriculture sent a report on preparations for the introduction of EMU, which should become mandatory from January 1, 2018, to the government last week. As stated in the document (Kommersant has it), an analysis of the opinions of officials of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation shows that in several regions there are “certain difficulties” that complicate the widespread use of the EMU system within the specified period. These include low funding for the implementation of EMU in the regions, lack of access to the Internet, lack of personnel for the work of the state information system"Mercury" (designed for electronic certification of regulated cargo and tracking their movement) for small enterprises. The report also notes the prevailing negative opinion of market participants associated with the “technical imperfection” of Mercury, and the unwillingness to finance the technical equipment of the EMU process until 2018. In 13 regions, including St. Petersburg, less than 100 participants are now registered with Mercury, the Ministry of Agriculture writes.
Mandatory EMU is introduced for products of animal origin, including milk, meat, and fish. It should cover both raw materials and finished products. The operator of "Mercury" is Rosselkhoznadzor. According to him, in August 2017 through the system in voluntary 8.29 million electronic certificates were issued. Of these, 1.12 million documents were issued for meat and meat products, 1.39 million - for poultry meat, 173.7 thousand - for raw milk, 817.7 thousand - for fish and seafood, 4.29 million - for finished products.
The data provided by the Ministry of Agriculture show that the level of readiness of the industry for the transition to EMU is low and it is obvious that the system will not be able to work in full mode from January 1, 2018, says Artem Belov, executive director of the National Union of Milk Producers. According to him, tens of thousands of enterprises and households must connect to the system just to distribute EMU for raw milk, "it is obvious that they will not have time to do this." The postponement of the mandatory transition to the EMU in the current situation would be justified, agrees the president of the association "Vetbezopasnost" (unites veterinarians, employees of specialized research institutes) Lilia Surgucheva. “Today, in order to ensure the circulation of controlled goods, paper documents are being processed; this system has been worked out and has proven its effectiveness. With a single transition to electronic form any technical failure can lead to a stoppage of the process and, as a result, to financial losses for market participants,” she explains.
“Three months before commissioning, the system, in fact, does not work. Its introduction from January 2018 in any form will lead to a halt in the work of the largest food companies throughout the country, ”worries the interlocutor of Kommersant in a large food manufacturer. He believes that the hasty introduction of EMU in the food market may lead to difficulties similar to the introduction of the Unified State Automated Information System in the alcohol industry in 2006, and will cause an increase in food prices. Nikolai Vlasov, deputy head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, previously admitted that the introduction of EMU could affect the cost of production, but emphasized that we are talking about "hundredths or even thousandths of a percent."
The head of the National Meat Association, Sergei Yushin, on the contrary, does not consider it necessary to postpone the introduction of EMU. He is sure that new system control will benefit the entire market. “Today, there are still dozens, if not hundreds, of producers, especially in the regions, who use unsafe raw materials of unknown origin,” notes Mr. Yushin.
The Ministry of Agriculture stated that the introduction of EMU is going on in all regions with different intensity as planned. The representative of the Rosselkhoznadzor says that the country's leadership does not consider it expedient to postpone the introduction of the EMU. “The procedure has been going on for several years already, and economic entities have been given enough time to make the transition. Moreover, many have been working in the new conditions for a long time,” he notes. According to a Kommersant source in the industry, the issue of introducing EMU will be discussed at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich next Monday, September 18. Aliya Samigullina, a representative of Mr. Dvorkovich, did not comment on this.
1) It is felt that business has already begun to get tired of the excessive and crookedly carried out automation of state control.
2) A single center and a single state automation program understandable to business is required.
MOSCOW, 9 March. /TASS/. In Russia, mandatory certification of dairy products has not yet been introduced, and no one requires manufacturers to provide accompanying documents for drinking packaged milk in the Russian Federation. This was reported to TASS by the deputy head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, Nikolai Vlasov.
On March 9, the Kommersant newspaper reported that the unwillingness of the Russian dairy industry to issue veterinary accompanying documents for drinking packaged milk since March could lead to a halt in production and an increase in milk prices.
"No mandatory certification is required now. A voluntary one has the right to be, if the owner of the product wants," Vlasov said. This item is spelled out in the law on veterinary medicine, he added.
At the same time, the law prescribes the execution of all veterinary accompanying documents only from the beginning of 2018, the deputy head of Rosselkhoznadzor emphasized.
The law says in black and white - those products that were not subject to certification at the time this law came into force are subject to certification in without fail from January 1, 2018. That is, no one requires to certify packaged milk now
Nikolai Vlasov
Deputy Head of Rosselkhoznadzor
"The fact that Soyuzmoloko is now raising this wave is the stage of their next fight against electronic certification as such," Vlasov is sure.
Accordingly, no growth in milk prices predicted by producers in Russia should be expected, Vlasov said. "Nothing happened - there was no less milk and it did not become more expensive," he assured.
Vlasov stressed that the Rosselkhoznadzor banned the regions from requiring veterinary certificates for dairy products. "Just in case, I have already sent out a circular to the veterinary services so that they would not take it into their heads to demand mandatory veterinary certification of finished dairy products," he said.
"No Reason"
Committee head State Duma on agricultural issues, Nikolai Pankov also notes that dairy products will not rise in price, since there are no grounds for this.
"Dairy products should not rise in price, there are no grounds for this. I consider the statements of representatives of the transnational companies PepsiCo, Danone, owned by foreign citizens, to be groundless," Pankov's press service quoted him as saying. According to the head of the State Duma committee, manufacturers often think about their own profits without worrying about the quality of their products. "Thus, perhaps, they are trying to hide its origin," the deputy added.
Pankov recalled that dairy products were previously subject to veterinary certification, and this did not cause claims from manufacturers. "And the norm that corporations are talking about today comes into force only from January 1, 2018 and applies to processed products," the deputy emphasized.
The list of products subject to mandatory certification includes milk and cream, curdled milk, yogurt, kefir and other fermented or fermented milk, whey, condensed or not condensed, with or without added sugar or other sweeteners; products from natural milk components, butter and other fats and oils made from milk; dairy pastes, as well as cheeses and cottage cheese.
Continuation
Appeal of the Union of Milk Producers to Dvorkovich
The National Union of Milk Producers (Soyuzmoloko) appealed to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich, the head of the presidential administration Sergey Ivanov and the deputy head of the Ministry of Economy Oleg Fomichev with a request to withdraw the order of the Ministry of Agriculture N648, which obliges manufacturers of drinking packaged milk to issue veterinary accompanying documents in paper form in relation to of each batch of manufactured product since March 2016.
According to Soyuzmolok, it is necessary to draw up documents from the moment the order comes into force, that is, from March 2016. However, Vlasov points out that the current law on veterinary medicine is a priority. "We have not one document, but two. The first document is the law on veterinary medicine. This norm is of greater legal force," he said.
Sergey Chuchalin, head of the veterinary department for the Kirov region, spoke today at a press conference in the Government of the region about preparations for the transition to certification of products in electronic form.
In accordance with federal law, from January 1, 2018, mandatory electronic veterinary certification for goods subject to veterinary control is introduced.
– This means that there will be no paper forms that everyone is used to, veterinary accompanying documents will be issued only in electronic form using the Federal state system"Mercury", the developer and operator of which is federal Service on veterinary and phytosanitary supervision,” said Sergei Chuchalin.
In addition, the list of products for which from January 1, 2018 it is necessary to issue veterinary accompanying documents has been expanded. The list includes: finished dairy products, prepared or canned products from meat, meat by-products, fish, pasta stuffed with meat or fish, ready-made soups and broths and many other products containing products of animal origin.
“Electronic veterinary certification based on the FSIS “Mercury” ensures the implementation of the national system of traceability of animal products “from field to plate” and provides the ability to search for and recall dangerous and low-quality products from circulation,” said the head of the regional veterinary department.
We add that veterinary accompanying documents in FSIS "Mercury" can be issued not only by specialists of the state veterinary service, but also by certified specialists in the field of veterinary medicine, representatives of companies and individual entrepreneurs.
When products arrive not only at processing enterprises or at wholesale and retail bases, but also at stores retail, to a public catering network (cafes, canteens, etc.), to schools, kindergartens, hospitals, an electronic veterinary accompanying document must be issued for it and canceled by an authorized person.
As reported state inspector Department of Veterinary Supervision of the Office of the Rosselkhoznadzor for the Kirov Region and Udmurt Republic Natalya Chirkova, at present, about 400 legal entities and individual entrepreneurs have applied to the department to gain access and registration in the FSIS "Mercury". This is less than 10% of total number registered business entities operating in the field of production and sale of livestock products.
“We strongly recommend that all business entities involved in the circulation (processing, transportation, storage, sale, purchase) of products of animal origin, in the next 2-3 months, receive a login and password to access the FSIS “Mercury,” Natalya Chirkova emphasized.
According to Sergei Chuchalin, an action plan has been developed by the Veterinary Administration together with the regional Ministry of Agriculture and Food to ensure the transition of dairy and meat industries in the Kirov region to mandatory electronic certification. It provides for the transition to electronic veterinary certification from the manufacturer to the processing plant and electronic veterinary certification during the processing and movement of products.
– It is planned from October 1 of this year to start moving and receiving products, accompanied by documents issued by the FSIS "Mercury", in a test mode. And from December 1, it is planned to carry out the movement and acceptance of products in the Kirov region only if there are accompanying veterinary documents issued by the FSIS "Mercury", - said the head of the veterinary department.
In order to prevent from January 1, 2018 the restriction of access of livestock products to the trade networks of the region and beyond, the heads of enterprises and institutions involved in the circulation of agricultural products must take comprehensive measures to introduce electronic veterinary certification: gain access to the FSIS "Mercury", train staff to work in the system, equip workplaces with a computer and Internet access, accounting system enterprises to integrate with FSIS "Mercury" through a universal gateway.
For questions related to electronic veterinary certification, you can contact the district veterinary stations for the control of animal diseases. The coordinates of institutions subordinate to the Veterinary Administration of the Kirov Region are on the official website.
Press Center of the Government of the Kirov Region