Self-regulatory organizations in livestock breeding will be introduced in Russia

The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation has developed a taxonomy for the creation of self-regulatory organizations in the breeding livestock industry in Russia. The draft amendments to Federal Law 123-FZ "On Breeding Livestock" have been published on the single portal of draft regulatory legal acts. The document will allow the creation of federal self-regulatory organizations by industry type (FSRO), which will represent and protect the interests of breeding farms in interaction with the authorities, and also coordinate their work. Another goal of the FSRO is to ensure the accounting of data in breeding livestock. "The functioning of the FSRO in the breeding resources market will ensure the transparency and reliability of data on breeding stock and its productivity, introduce the principles of self-regulation and self-control in relation to the assessment of the breeding value (bonitization) of the bred livestock," the ...