Ministerial Decree No. 1090 regarding the validation of the Statute of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.

The Statute establishes that the Ministry of Agriculture and Food is the Federal Authority that is entitled to conduct the state policy and management in the field of agro-industrial complex and provides for the food supply for the country's needs. The Ministry of Agriculture and Food performs its activity in accordance with other Federal Authorities, Regional Authorities, Local Administration and Non-Governmental Entities. Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Russian Federation and its local (territorial/basin) branches are specially authorized state executives in the following fields: land reclamation; protection, control, repopulation of wildlife biodiversity classified as hunting species and their habitat; protection (except for territorial sea, continental shelf and EEZ), control, repopulation of aquatic animals as regards control over fishstock. Ministry of Agriculture and Food is specially authorized state executive in the sphere of: stockbreeding; seed and planting material; agricultural land fertility; control, management, use and disposal of pesticides, post-registration surveillance and monitoring of pesticides and agrochemical substances; use, protection and reforestation of agroforestry (in accordance with Federal Forest Service).