Planning and implementation of agricultural policy, the trade policy of agricultural products, the organisation of ensuring food safety and compliance, organisation of agricultural research and development and agricultural education and the preparation of corresponding draft legislation.
Functions as a supervising body and sees to that that the requirements stipulated by the legislation that governs food safety are followed and executes supervision over fulfilment of these requirements and applies enforcement by state pursuant to the procedures and in the amount prescribed by law.
The main tasks include executing state supervision over meeting the quality, marketing, import and export requirements set for horticultural products, organising the supervision in organic farming area
Competent authority in the field of drinking water and the responsible authority in the field of natural mineral water.
The possibility to carry out the control of labelling in the retail stage.