Keywords
food safety
sanitary and phytosanitary measures
legislative alignment
EU law
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Abstract
The study deals with the issues of aligning Ukraine’s national legislation on official controls in the field of food safety, animal and health with the recent developments in the relevant EU law. It is argued that according the `farm to fork` approach the scope of Ukraine’s legislation on official controls has to be extended along the entire agri-food chain, covering in particular plant health. Since proper risk-assessment is crucial to the planning of official controls, Ukraine needs an IT system similar to that of the EU, integrating data about various factors affecting food safety, animal and plant health and facilitating the collection, processing, exchange and use of data and documents relating to official controls. A wider application of digital technologies might also help prevent corruption that may result from the application of such discretionary concepts as suspicion of non-compliance, which is a legal basis for unscheduled official controls. It is also argued that addressing these issues requires a new of the Law of Ukraine on official controls over the compliance with sanitary and phytosanitary legislation, which has to be in conformity with the relevant EU law.
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