Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance

(Rosselkhoznadzor)

Republican Fumigation Group

Federal State Enterprise

Determination of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Case No AKPI12-507 Moscow, May 28, 2012

JSC "Food Plant "Vologda" appealed to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation with an application to declare invalid this regulatory legal provision as contrary to part four of Article 10 of the Federal Law of July 15, 2000 No. 99-FZ "On Plant Quarantine", Part 3 of Article 15 of the Federal Law of July 26, 2006 No. 135-FZ "On Protection of Competition", the International Convention for Plant Protection and Quarantine (published in the Bulletin of International Treaties, 2006, No. 7), which do not provide for the work of these legal entities.

JSC "Food Plant "Vologda" appealed to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation with an application to declare invalid this regulatory legal provision as contrary to part four of Article 10 of the Federal Law of July 15, 2000 No. 99-FZ "On Plant Quarantine", Part 3 of Article 15 of the Federal Law of July 26, 2006 No. 135-FZ "On Protection of Competition", the International Convention for Plant Protection and Quarantine (published in the Bulletin of International Treaties, 2006, No. 7), which do not provide for the work of these legal entities.

In written objections to the application, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation) pointed to the state registration of changes made by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation to the above-mentioned Procedure, according to which the words "Ministry of Agriculture of Russia" are excluded from the contested normative provision.