Only 6% of suppliers of dairy products were ready for EVC in early June

It should be reminded that on July 1, 2018, a law comes into force in Russia, which makes it obligatory to accompany food and agricultural products with electronic veterinary accompanying documents. However, yesterday it became known that only products, for which paper veterinary certificates are currently being prepared, will be transferred to electronic veterinary certification, the finished products will not be included in this system.
In addition, the Deputy Prime Minister noted, the government decided to introduce a period of adaptation of manufacturers to the new system. "This is due to the fact that, firstly, the Internet does not work everywhere, and secondly, we have a lot of small business representatives, individual entrepreneurs, who are both technically and grammatically – regarding computer competence - not everybody is ready for innovations. This must be experienced", he said.

As A. Gordeev stressed, "… in order not to stop the process of turnover of this important, socially significant product and prevent failures, a completely reasonable, objective decision was made - to provide an adaptation period". Currently, the State Duma is working on amendments to the relevant law.

For the dairy industry, the decision to remove the finished product from the list of EVC is important.

As noted in an interview with The DairyNews, the representative of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce Marina Petrova, there is less than a week before the introduction of EVC and it is already clear that most small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as small retail networks, shops, cafes and restaurants are not ready for its implementation.

According to the expert, the lack of readiness of the market, coupled with the technical imperfection and permissive format of EVC could lead to a collapse in the food market and significant losses of both producers and sellers of dairy products. In addition, the expansion of EVC to finished products would lead to a significant increase in costs for distributors, logistics companies, network operators, shops and cafes. And these additional costs would ultimately affect the cost of the final product and lead to another increase in prices.

- Of course, the control over the quality of dairy products is necessary and important in the current conditions, but to combat falsification, it is enough to compare the volumes of supplied raw materials and products made of them. This allows the identification of companies producing tens of tons of cheese from a ton and a half of milk, and permissive format of "Mercury" with the batch accounting is not needed, concluded Marina Petrova.

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