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REPUBLIC OF TURKEY MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF PROTECTION AND CONTROL VISION

Efficient inspection
Sufficient control
Good quality input
Safe food

MISSION TO PRODUCERS

Safe delivery of agricultural inputs e.g. seeds, drugs and vaccines.
Production and marketing of safe products of animal or plant origin and food.
Protection of plant, animal and marine product resources and ensuring the safety of products there from

TARGETS

Protection and maintenance of animal health,
Healthy market and appropriate transportation
Establishing a permanent identification and registration system for animals; an active , dynamic, compatible and comprehensive Food Policy,
Providing an accreditation system in laboratory services,
Providing new fishing areas,
Protection and sustainability of the stocks of marine products,
Assurance of the production capacity of farmers affected by natural disasters,
Developing environmentally friendly alternative methods for plant protection
Extending the use of rapid alert system,
Taking the measures against environmental deterioration,
Harmonisation of the Turkish legislation on veterinary, phytosanitary and food safety to the EU acquis,
Privatisation in inspection and control services,
Establishing quality management system.

RELATED LEGISLATION

Decree Law of 441 on Organisation and Duties of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
Law of 6968 on Agricultural Combat and Agricultural Quarantine,
Law of 3285 on Animal Health and Inspection.
Law of 6343 The Execution of Veterinary Medicine and Establishment Of Turkish Veterinarian Chambers and Union.
Decree Law of 560 on The Production, Consumption and Inspection of Foods.
Law of 308 on Registration Control and Certification of Seed for Sowing.
Law of 1734 on Feed
Law of 1262 on Medical and Pharmaceutical Chemicals.
Law of1380 on Fishery
Law of 2090 on The Aids For The Farmers Harmed In Natural Disasters.
Law of 4081 on Farmer Properties Protection.

WORKING FIELDS AND DUTIES ANIMAL HEALTH AND QUARANTINE SERVİCES

To combat against animal diseases and pests,
To make plans for the production of vaccine, serum, biological and chemical materials, to issue permits for operating private diagnostic and analysis, laboratories and to supervise such laboratories,
To issue permits to import vaccines and to perform quality controls,
To issue health certificates for disease free hatcheries and breeding animal holdings,
To control and monitor of animal movements,
To take necessary measures against illegal animal movements,
To regulate the requirements for import and export of animals and products of animal origin,
To execute the tasks with regard to foreign trade,
To issue licences for private veterinary services and to supervise the private practitioners.

VETERINARY PUBLIC HEALTH SERVİCES

To permit all kinds of facilities manufacturing meat and meat products, to collect and evaluate statistical information about meat production,
To co-ordinate Provincial control laboratories,
To ensure the establishment and inspection of private laboratories,
To perform studies for the detection, pursuit and eradication of Zoonosis diseases.

PLANT HEALTH AND QUARANTINE SERVİCES

To combat against plant disease and pests, to carry out the agricultural quarantine controls and foreign trade processes of the product materials (seed, seedling, sapling, cutting grafting shoot, turf etc.) to be imported and exported,
To perform seed registration, sapling certification controls and to permit the production,
To inspect the conformity of agricultural combat implementations all around the country within technical instructions and integrated combat approach, to propose new methods by detecting deficient points in combat and to prepare a survey programme.

DRUG-EQUIPMENT SERVİCES

To detect and announce the importation, exportation, manufacturing and preparation conditions, norms and characters as well as the prices of drugs and their related substances used in the protection and treatment of plant and animal health besides the agricultural combat equipment and machines including aircraft and helicopters,
To determine the principles for their manufacture, to carry out the processes for licence and inspections, to ensure their dispatch into the market on time,
To perform the processes related with the factory establishment and foundation as well as the production, market, storage and sale controls,
To fulfil the processes related with the specification, prescription, licence and prices of drug, equipment and machines.

CONTROL, PRODUCTION AND REGISTRATION OF FOOD SERVİCES

To carry out food foreign trade control and inspections at each phase of the production in food production sites,
To ensure qualified and reliable food supply,
To perform studies in order to ensure efficient nutrition of the public,
To prepare and publish product Codex,
To make registrations of food packing production facilities and to permit their manufactured products,
To prepare food industry inventories.

FEED CONTROL AND REGISTRATION SERVİCES

To carry out the registration and declaration processes of feeds which will be manufactured under a licence and establishment permission by the feed factories,
To perform the controls of manufactured feeds, to execute legal procedures for inappropriate products,
To issue related permission certificates for the import and export of feed and feed raw materials.

ENVIRONMENT AND DISASTER SERVİCES

To conduct necessary processes for a one-year postpone for the debits of the farmer harmed from natural disasters to the agricultural credit institutions,
To meet livestock looses in kind of farmers from disaster fund,
To protect the farmers’ plant and animals in accordance, to take necessary measures against the possible harms and to determine necessary sanctions,
To conduct studies for the protection of soil, water, plant and animal existences as well as the environment.

FISHERY PRODUCTS SERVİCES

To regulate the marine products fishing,
To rent fishery shelters and to execute related services for their operations,
To inspect the facilities processing, evaluating and exporting marine products in accordance with the technical and hygienic conditions in production sites,
To carry out studies about marine product health and quality control.

COORDINATION SERVİCES

To ensure co-ordination of the projects conducted by General Directorate, to prepare budgets,
To execute computer-based related activities for information system of General Directorate,
To implement the procedures for the foreign relations, to prepare the opinion of General Directorate in technical, scientific and economic fields,
To project, follow, modify and co-ordinate the legislation of General Directorate.

CONNECTED AND RELATED INSTITUTIONS DIRECTORATES OF SEED FOR SOWING REGISTRATION AND CERTIFICATION

Ankara Seed for Sowing Registration and Certification Centre
Directorate of Çayırova Seed Certification Test

DIRECTORATES OF AGRICULTURAL COMBAT RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS

Adana
Ankara
Diyarbakır
İzmir

PROVINCIAL DIRECTORATES

Directorate of Control Division
Directorate of Animal Health Division
Directorate of Plant protection Division
Directorate of Support Division
Directorate of Farmer Training and Publishing Division

DIRECTORATE OF VETERINARY CONTROL AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES

Central Veterinary Control and Research Institute, Ankara
Pendik Veterinary Control and Research Institute, İstanbul
Bornova Veterinary Control and Research Institute, İzmir
Veterinary Control and Research Institute, Konya
Veterinary Control and Research Institute, Elazığ
Veterinary Control and Research Institute, Erzurum
Veterinary Control and Research Institute, Adana
Veterinary Control and Research Institute, Samsun
Poultry Disease Research and Vaccine Production Institute , Manisa
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Institute, Ankara

DIRECTORATES OF PROVINCIAL CONTROL LABORATORY

Adana	Çanakkale	Eskişehir	Kars	Samsun
Afyon	Çorum	Gaziantep	Kastamonu	Sivas
Amasya	Denizli	Giresun	Kayseri	Şanlıurfa
Ankara	Diyarbakır	Hatay	Kocaeli	Tekirdağ
Antalya	Edirne	Isparta	Konya	Tokat
Balıkesir	Elazığ	İçel	Muğla	Trabzon
Bolu	Erzincan	İstanbul	Ordu	Van
Burdur	Erzurum	İzmir	Rize

DIRECTORATES OF WAREHOUSE AND CUSTOMS VETERINARY

Ağrı/Gürbulak	Hatay/Cilvegözü	Edirne/Kapıkule
İçel	İzmir

DIRECTORATES OF AGRICULTURAL QUARANTINE

Hatay
İçel
Istanbul
İzmir
Samsun
Trabzon
Antalya

COMMISSIONS SERVING IN THE BODY OF THE GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF PROTECTION AND CONTROL AND THEIR DUTIES ANIMAL HEALTH CONSULTING BOARD

To state opinions by examining the points related with animal diseases in accordance with the Article 31 of Animal Health and Inspection Law no.3285, to arrange and track the services related with veterinarian execution of veterinary medicine as well as animal movements and transports, to agree upon an opinion about the examination and inspection of animal materials, to establish strategy and policies.

TURKISH ZOONOSIS NATIONAL COMMITTEE

To ensure the co-operation between the related institutions in order to take the necessary measures against serious zoonosis diseases in our country (rabies, tuberculosis, etc.)

ADDITIVES AND RESIDUE COMMISSION

To lead the applications significant for a reliable food production (to decrease the dosages, to review the periods between the last medication and harvest (PHI) according to the results of the review of residue detected in foods, to extend and reduce the legal purification period, the cancellation of licence and recommendation, review of the limits in Food Codex, etc.) and to co-ordinate the related activities.

CONSULTING BOARD FOR PESTICIDE AND SIMILAR SUBSTANCES

To facilitate the determination of the policy of the Ministry following the pointing out the problems (certification, control, residue, toxicology, ecotoxicology etc.) that will arise from the substances that are used for the development of the plants such as plant developing regulators and pesticides that are used in combat against plant diseases, pests and herbs.

VETERINARY DRUG COMMISSION

To permit the licensing of veterinary drugs.

AGRICULTURAL COMBAT CENTRAL DRUG COMMISSION

To issue licence to the drugs to be used in agricultural combat and to improve the recommendation of licensed drugs.

COMMISSION OF PESTICIDE RESIDUE FOLLOW-UP

To determine the pesticide residue amounts in agricultural products, to prepare legislation and to determine the limitations according to the conditions of our country.

CONSULTING BOARD FOR FOOD SERVICES

To establish food policies, to improve food industry, to fortify food control.

MILK COUNCIL

To ensure the improvement of dairy production and dairy husbandry and increasing the milk consumption.

ADVISORY COMMITTE ON FOODS FOR SPECIAL NUTRITIONAL USES

Makes recommendations on ; preparation of legislation on these products ; solution of technical problems faced during production certification and importation ; preparation of country comments related to these products for Codex Alimentarius Commission

LIVESTOCK AND MEAT COUNCIL

To determine, track and inspect the necessary studies in the short, medium and long term for projecting strategies in livestock and meat industry in parallelism with the applications applied all around the world and to constitute the necessary modifications for an efficient livestock and meat policy.

CONSULTING BOARD OF FEED

To ensure the necessary studies to be carried out for the production, marketing and importation of feed and feed materials, as well as the processes in order to guide the Ministry.

FISHERY PRODUCT CONSULTING BOARD

To improve policies on marine product fishing, breeding and industry, to take measures in order to solve the related problems, to make necessary arrangements, to conduct studies towards the fortification of the sector.

VARIETY REGISTRATION COMMITTEE

To make registrations for plant varieties and to permit production.

COMMISSION FOR VETERİNARY BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT FOR IMPORT AND PRODUCTION

To conduct studies related with the licensing of import and production vaccines and other veterinary biologicals.

INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONS AND AGREEMENTS BEARING OUR MEMBERSHIP

AGRIS/CARIS International Agricultural
Science and Technology System

BaBSeVA Balkan and Black Sea Veterinary Association

BERN Protection Convention for European Wild Life and Natural Habitats

BSEC Black Sea Economic Co-operation

CIHEAM International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies

CITES Convention on Wild animal and plant

D-8 Islamic Countries Development Programme

EC European Council

ECO Economic Cooperation Organisation

EMPRES Emergency Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases

EPPO European and Mediterranean Organisation of Plant Protection

EU European Union

EUFMD TheEuropean Commission for Food-and–mouth Disease

species under the danger of extinction

FAO Food And Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations

FIVIMS Information and Mapping System for National Food Insecurity and Sensibility

Science and Technology System

FVE Federation of Veterinary of Europe

GATT General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs

IAEA International Atom Energy Agency

IASTE International Apprentice Student Exchange

ICARDA International Centre of Agricultural Research in Dry Areas.

IRRI International Rice Research Institution

ISTA International Seed Test Association

JICA Japan International Co-operation Association

MEDA Mediterranean-Europe Co-operation Monetary Wing for Mediterranean countries

MZCC Mediterranean Zoonosis Control Centre

OECD Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development

OIE Office of International des Epizooties

OILB Organisation of International Biological Fight

RABNET Rabies Network

RADISCON Regional Animal Diseases Surveillance and Control Network

TCDC International Technical co-operation of developing countries of FAO

TADinfo Transboundary Animal Disease Information System

TRIPs Trade related Intellectual Property Rights Council

UNDP United Nations Development Programme

UNICEF United Nations Children Aid Fund

UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development organisation

UPOV Union for Protection of Vegetation

WHO World Health Organisation

WVA World Veterinarian Association

WTO World Trade Organisation

ADDRESS:

GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF FOOD AND CONTROL

Eskişehiryolu 9. Km.

Lodumlu/ANKARA