Veterinary certificate
Certificate is issued by :
- Legal Entity of Public Law – National Food Agency
- In the control zones defined by the Tax Code of Georgia Legal Entity of Public Law – Georgia Revenue Service, except for the cases when for issuance of the certificate It is necessary to :
- Place animals in the quarantine
- Take samples for analyses
Following veterinary certificates are issued when exporting animals, animal raw materials and products from Georgia:
- For livestock for slaughtering, breeding and other animals, birds, bees, and their bulks (artificially created new families of bees) exported from Georgia
- For meat of Domestic and wild animals and meat products exported from Georgia
- For milk and milk products exported from Georgia
- For raw materials of animal origin exported from Georgia
- For breeding material (Sperm, embryo, incubation eggs, spawn and etc) exported from Georgia
- For seeds and other plant products intended for cattle breading exported from Georgia
- For new and frozen skin of mammals and their products intended for sending to the Republic of Turkey
- For Sea products, fish and ready-made products obtained from them, exported from Georgia
- For honey and beekeeping products, exported from Georgia
- For foodstuff egg and egg powder, exported from Georgia
- For Castrated livestock of sheep for slaughtering, exported from Georgia to Israel
- For Processed Sheep wool , intended for sending to the republic of Turkey from Georgia
- For Veterinary medication , substances, raw material , unpacked and intermediate products exported from Georgia
- For food of animal origin and food additives exported from Georgia
For attaining the certificate natural or legal person shall submit application to the issuing authority electronically or in written form.
Application foe legal person shall contain the following – name of the organization, address and the extract from the registry of entrepreneur and non-entrepreneur (noncommercial) legal person. For natural persons application shall contain –name, surname, address and the copy of ID.
When exporting live animals , issuing authority shall receive animal itinerary plan and following additional information to the application:
- Information on the place of origin of live animals (place of birth or purchase of animal- country, district, region. In the case of wild animals -place of capture)
- Information about their Species, sex, breed, age, weight and identification signs;
- Information about the place of quarantine (in case of meeting requirement of the importing country)
In case of existence of additional requirements foreseen by the bilateral agreement between Georgia and internationally trading country, Issuing authority shall also receive the corresponding information .
Certificate is issued based on the execution of the veterinary control.
Veterinary certificate is not issued when:
- Cargo does not comply with the veterinary requirements of the importing country
- If production process is suspended because of the critical irrelevancy in the food related activities
Service fee is 50 GEL
Main regulating normative act:
- Resolution N 427 of December 31 , 2010 , by the Government of Georgia