Cuba this Friday issued a decree inherent in violations of veterinary medicine, taking into account animal health violations, the measures to be imposed on those who violate the provisions and the authority empowered to impose them, as well as ways to resolve non-conformities.
The Official Gazette of the Republic published Decree 20 Contraventions of Veterinary Medicine, initialed by the Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero, and Gustavo Rodríguez Rollero, Head of the Ministry of Agriculture. It applies to national or foreign natural and legal persons, and is mandatory throughout the country,
Fines for violators range from 500 to 3,500 pesos or the equivalent in convertible pesosdepending on the seriousness of the facts with which they occur.
The decree also provides for the seizure of animals and products, storage, disabling or re-shipment, and withdrawal of the veterinary sanitary permit. Those who cause situations of stress, physical harm or abuse threatening the health and welfare of animals of any species, category or purpose, the corresponding measures will be applied.
The irregularities also include everything to do with biosafety lack of a veterinary sanitary permit or its obsolete status, as well as violations related to the import or export of animals, products and raw materials of that origin.
The seriousness of the measures also falls on those who practice veterinary medicine without the usual inscription in the administrative control of doctors in veterinary medicine and veterinary medicine and zootechnics.
(With information from ACN)