Decree No. 13/2020/ND-CP dated January 21, 2020 on elaboration of the Law on Animal Husbandry.

This Decree elaborates Clause 4 Article 14, Clause 3 Article 19, Clause 3 Article 38, Clause 4 Article 39, Clause 5 Article 41, Clause 8 Article 43, Clause 5 Article 45, Clause 2 Article 52, Clause 4 Article 53, Clause 4 Article 58, Clause 2 Article 62, Clause 2 Article 63, Clause 4 Article 64, Clause 3 Article 67, Clause 2 Article 68 and Clause 5 Article 78 of the Law on Animal Husbandry.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development shall take charge and cooperate with the ministries concerned in investigating, surveying, collecting and storing new-found livestock genetic resources. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development shall establish a council on initial appraisal of genetic resources, genetic nature and biological characteristics of new livestock genetic resources. Entities are not allowed to export, research or use the new livestock genetic resource together with foreign entities before it is appraised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development shall take charge and cooperate with competent authorities in carrying out appraisal and grant approval for the utilization and development of livestock genetic resources. The list of livestock breeds in need of conservation and list of livestock breeds prohibited from export are provided in the Appendix II and III.
The Decree further makes provisions, inter alia, for: Issuance, re-issuance and revocation of the Certificate of eligibility for commercial feed/order feed production; Criteria applied to domestic animals in the juvenile period permitted to use feeds containing antibiotics for animal disease prevention; Carrying out inspection at the feed exporting country; State inspection of quality of imported feeds; Handling of feeds violating regulations on feed quality.