National legislation

This Decree establishes criteria for hygienic safety of polymer materials used for potable water supply: (a) reagents added to potable water in the process of water treatment; (b) equipment and construction materials used for potable water supply systems; (c) ion exchange resins, membranes and sorbent agents;...

Item 2 shall be amended to add the following wording: “The Ministry of Agriculture and Food shall request certificate of state hygienic registration and the applicant shall have the right to submit personally to the Ministry a copy of the aforesaid certificate.” ...

This Decree establishes the modalities of coordination of data for the use of food additives, therapeutic indications for the use of the aforesaid additives by some age groups of the population, including infant food for special dietary uses. The aforesaid coordination shall be performed by the...

This Ministerial Decree establishes that manufacturers, suppliers and traders of food additives, liquors, beer, beverages, infant food and foodstuffs for dietary uses shall specify on labels modalities of use thereof by specific age group categories of consumers. ...

This Decree establishes the modalities of quality inspections of meals in public catering that shall be applicable to each lot of culinary products, bakery products and confectionary products with a view of sorting out poor quality food. Special food quality inspection composed of three persons shall...

This Law shall regulate manufacturing of liquors; it shall not be applicable to manufacturing of homemade spirits destined for proper consumption. State regulation shall be carried out in the following forms: (a) licensing; (b) setting production quotas; (c) quality and safety control; and (d) hygienic registration...

This Law shall be applicable to the relations between consumer on one side and manufacturer, trader, supplier, contractor on the other, originating from retail purchase and sale contracts, lease, storage, energy supply and other service contracts. The Act consists of 6 Sections divided into 47 articles:...

This Decree establishes the modalities of organization and execution of radiation control of foodstuffs and agricultural commodities destined for export and subject to state veterinary supervision for determination of compliance thereof with radiation safety criteria set by the importing country. Its establishes rules and regulations for...

This Veterinary and Sanitary Regulation establishes common modalities for veterinary examination and postmortem veterinary and sanitary expertise of carcasses and visceral organs of livestock, veterinary and sanitary evaluation of animal products and raw materials of animal origin obtained from healthy and ill animals, and it shall...

This Decree establishes common rules and regulations for veterinary examination of slaughter animals and veterinary and sanitary expertise of carcasses and visceral organs of animals after slaughtering, meat and meat-based products. It shall be applicable to animals (poultry) subject to slaughtering, and also to meat and...

This Decree establishes rules and regulations of poultry eggs obtained in organizations, subsidiary smallholding and peasant farms for the purpose of quality and safety control thereof. Vending of eggs for nutritional purposes and for human consumption by citizens shall be authorized at trading places and shops...

This Decree establishes maximum allowable residue limit of concentration of chlorine dioxide in potable water not exceeding 0,2 mg/dm, with sanitary, toxicological and organoleptic hazardousness index (smell), classified as third hazardousness class. ...

This Decree validates form sheets certifying quality and safety of alimentary raw materials and foodstuffs related to meat and meat based products (Annex 1) and dairy products (Annex 2). ...

This Decree establishes the procedure for supervision over contents of hazardous substances and MRL in livestock and foodstuffs of animal origin destined for export to the European Union. The aforesaid substances shall be classified in two categories: (a) substances of anabolic action prohibited for use in...

The Ministerial Decree establishes that the Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Certification shall be the authorized institution entitled with the task of issuing, renewal, suspension, withdrawal, revocation and cancellation of permits (licences) for the manufacturing of the alcoholic drinks. The aforesaid permits (licences) shall be grated...

The Presidential Decree establishes that the authorization for manufacturing, export, import, storage, wholesale and retail trade of alcoholic drinks (except for vending through public catering facilities) shall be granted exclusively to legal persons. The Presidential Decree consists of 8 Chapters dealing with: (a) general provisions (Chapt....

Expertise standards set for alimentary raw materials and foodstuffs represents the system of analysis for compliance of the projected technical requirements for alimentary raw materials and foodstuffs with standards ensuring food quality and food safety in the process of manufacturing thereof. The following documentations hall...

The Premier decrees to establish that legal and natural persons carrying out the processing and trade of alimentary raw materials and foodstuffs manufactured with the utilization of GMOs and food additives: 1) must specify on each label the presence or the contents of GMOs (or the...

Grains of the state material reserve shall be considered reserve stock to be stored in conformity with the refreshment and replenishment schedules that must be jointly elaborated by the Ministry of Economy and by the Committee on Material Reserve and must be subsequently validated by the...

The Chief Sanitary Inspector, for the purpose of the protection of public health against adverse effects of energizing beverages, decrees as follows: 1) to establish from 1 March 2005 the norms of contents of caffeine in beverages not exceeding 400 mg/lt and tonic components extracted...