Law No. HO-141-N “On animal feed”.

This Law regulates relations pertaining to import and export, ensuring production (including - primary) safety, storing, storage, transporting, usage, marketing, marking, packaging and advertising of feed and feed additives. This Law covers all parties to the public relations arising out of production (including – primary) and introduction of feed and feed additives, including feed chain operators and persons (officials) responsible for feed safety. This Law does not cover: a) production, use or storing of feed for animals envisaged for domestic use; b) relations concerning production, use (including sales in the market), import, export and transit of genetically modified feed; c) feeding of those animals, which are not envisaged for food preparation; d) retail sales of feed envisaged for domestic animals; and e) transit of feed and feed additives on the territory of the Republic of Armenia, except for those cases, when transit is made with open containers, which can be dangerous for animal and human health, as well as environment. Feed production, technological operation (regime) and technological process shall be implemented according to and with the availability of technological instruction and composition description approved by the producer. It is forbidden to put the harmful feed into circulation or to feed with them the animals envisaged for food receiving. The feeds are considered harmful if, in a result of expertise, it was found out that: a) they can affect the health of an animal; and b) the food received from an animal as a result of their use can have harmful effect for human life and health. Article 16.1. State registration, refusal, suspension and termination of feed additives establishes that production, import, storage, distribution, sale and use of feed additives are allowed in the Republic of Armenia, if they are registered in the relevant Ministry of the Republic of Armenia; state registration, rejection, suspension and termination of feed additives are carried out in accordance with the procedure established by the Government.