Ministerial Decree No. 154 validating the Regulation on public control on the application of standards and requirements in the sphere of determination of the foodstuffs’ quality and safety.

This Ministerial Decree establishes that the purpose of public control shall be the protection of the rights and interests of consumers determined by the legislation, prevention of the production, importation and sale of the foodstuffs that can pose danger for the life, health, properties of the people and environment, creation of conditions for production of quality products in this sphere in the republic and importation. The public control authorities, which carry out the public control over the application of the standards and requirements in the sphere of providing the quality and safety of the foodstuffs (within their authorities, the Ministry of Economic Development the Azerbaijan Republic, Ministry of Health of the Azerbaijan Republic, the Ministry of Agriculture of the Azerbaijan Republic, the Ministry of ecology and Natural Resources of the Azerbaijan Republic, the State Customs Committee of the Azerbaijan Republic and the State Agency on Standardization, Metrology and Patents of the Azerbaijan Republic), implement the control over the observation of quality and safety measures, technical, ecological, sanitary, veterinary-sanitary and phytosanitary standards, norms, procedures and measures (herein called – standards and measures) that determines the conditions for production, transportation, storing, packaging, labelling and selling of them by the judicial and natural persons that function in the sphere of foodstuffs. The following standards shall be subject to mandatory inspection: (a) food safety requirements; (b) compliance with packaging, labelling, transportation and storage requirements; (c) unity and accuracy of measurement requirements; (d) certification; (e) special dietary uses; and (f) laboratory testing.