BiH Public Veterinary Services

BASE PAPER
(Facts and outline of planned development)

2008
 Contents

1 Background and purpose of the present paper

2 Objectives of the BiH Veterinary Services

3 Risks and Assumptions

4 Management structure of the veterinary services in BiH

5 Location and Staffing (describing the bodies of the vet. Services,

headquarters,local units, BIPs,Labs, Institutes)

6 Strategy and roadmap (how is the upgrading and adaption process planned)

ANNEXES

(A) Basic structure of legislation

(B) Tasks of the BiH veterinary administration

(C) Staff and Job descriptions

(D) Facilities and equipment

(E) Costs

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 1.
Background The present paper shall provide an overview about the Veterinary
and purpose Services of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The paper shall serve the
presentation of the BiH Veterinary Services to local and international
of the
bodies and at the same time be a planning instrument for future
present development.
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The particular situation of BiH is characterised by the constraints arising
from the past civil war on one hand and by the wish and efforts of
Bosnian citizens to create a public administration, which is common and
commonly executed in all parts of Bosnia. Anyway, a peaceful,
sustainable, economic and social development is a commonly desired
and targeted objective. In this sense the different administrative
units of the Veterinary Administration in the Entities (Federation of BiH
and Republika Srpska) and in the State of BiH have learned in the past
to co-operate adequately in order to provide best services for the
country.

The present paper shall assist describing the tasks of the State and
the Entities. Mutual support is the basis of the future co-working. The
strength of the Veterinary body on the State level, the Central
Competent Authority (CCAies within creation of policy, supervision and
evaluation ( = risk assessment + communication). The duties and
responsibilities of the Entities and the District Brcko are settled in the
field of implementation and enforcement of the legal provision (risk
management). The division of risk assessment and
communication from risk management excludes competition of
State and Entities and defines the execution of veterinary activities
alongside of international norms and conventions.

It is the wish of all involved bodies in the state and Entities, the CCA,
Ministries and Inspectorates, local veterinary units, laboratories,
institutes and veterinary border inspection posts to contribute to the
common results as a team. However, the distribution of the tasks of
the team members shall be laid down in the referring legislation. The
working style of the team shall be characterised by a professional and
collegial co-operation.
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Objectives of The objective of the of the BiH Veterinary Services (within State,
the BiH Entities and the District Brcko) are based on the clear vision, with a
realistic road map of activities that will allow an adequate animal
Veterinary
disease control and a sound food safety system which gains confidence
Services from consumers, encourages producers, protects agriculture and the
environment, and enhances trade with third countries.

This policy is open for future development and further elaboration, as

the key components of the system fall into place.

1. The Veterinary Services are established on State, Entity level and

the district of Brcko.

2. The Veterinary Services on State and Entity level should work as a

professional bodies on the basis of existing legislation, standards and
rules;

3. The Veterinary Services in cooperation with other competent

authorities, will be responsible for all regulatory and implementing
functions covering food safety (food of animal origin), food control and
surveillance (food of animal origin), hygiene surveillance (producing,
storing and distributing food of animal origin), animal health, animal
welfare, veterinary pharmaceuticals and residue monitoring in the fields
of competence as described in the referring legislation;

4. The Veterinary Services will have the objective of harmonizing its

activities with the EU model for animal health, animal welfare and
public food safety administration (food of animal origin);

5. The Veterinary Services will employ an essential number of official

staff preliminarily based on the staff structure of the present
administrative bodies and will aim to continuously minimize
administrative costs, by reduction of overlapping work, rejection of
non-mandatory tasks and application of outsourcing public tasks to
private professionals and services;

6. The Veterinary Services will aim to minimize the risks and diseases
which can be transferred from animals and food products of animal
origin to consumers;

7. The veterinary Services will support transparency in the food

production chain and contribute to enhancing consumers’ safety and

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confidence in food products;

8. The veterinary Services will support agriculture and livestock

production through animal health surveillance, animal disease control
programmes and Border Inspection Posts (BIPs); it will assist
consumers, by monitoring and surveying the production chain for food
of animal origin pharmacovigilance and control of food imports; it will
monitor animal welfare, for both domestic and zoo animals, transport
and slaughtering practices;

9. The Veterinary Services will cooperate very closely with the

Ministries of Agriculture and Health and the Institutes in the fields of
animal production, quality of food production and zoonosis control;

10. The Veterinary Services should be present in the network of

officially recognized International Organizations for food safety and
surveillance of animal health.

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 3.
Risks and The State of Bosnia and Herzegovina together with the Entities
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska and the
Assumptions
District Brcko is aiming harmonisation of his veterinary services with
international norms in particular with the pertinent EU standards for
animal disease control and eradication, food safety and animal welfare.

Despite of a common will to adjust the veterinary services to EU

standards and to enhance the quality of public veterinary services,
some constraints may form risks, which may complicate the way
towards the desired target essentially:

1. No political interest, too much political influence.

2. 2. Competencies between State and Entities cannot be clarified and

divided appropriate and transparent. This may lead to an inadequate
legal situation (i.e. doubling of laws in State and Entities on one side
and lack of provisions on the other side, leads to confusion) and
inefficient enforcement of provisions.

3. 3. Local Veterinary units are not powerful to implement and enforce the
legal provisions and carry out their tasks (lack of personnel, lack of
facilities and equipment, lack of transparent provisions, lack of support
by superiors)

4. Not enough funds for disease control and food surveillance available.

5. 5. Inadequate payment of official veterinarians (risk: acceptance of

bribes).

6. 6. Insufficient division of the private veterinary sector from the public

tasks (conflict of interest of official veterinarians or contracted private
veterinarians for outsourced tasks).

7. 7. Leadership in State and Entities is unable to keep the development

of the veterinary services targeted to the agreed strategy.

Th The rating of the risks and their preventative handling may be

described in a table as lined out below.

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 Risk Probability Impact Hazard Recommended Responsibility
rating action
0-10 (a) 0-10 (b)
a*b
1 Political interest
and lobbyism
2 Clarification of
competencies
3 Power of local
veterinary units
4 Funds
5 Payments and
motivation of
staff
6 Conflict of
interest (division
private and public
tasks,
outsourcing)
7 Sustainability and
continuity of
targets

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 4.

Management The political map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (below) shows the two
structure of Entities (Republika Srpska and Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
the and the District Brcko (third administrative unit). Those three
veterinary administrative units are forming the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
services in The management of the veterinary services follows the political
BiH
structure and is build up as a federative structure with the general
division of tasks:

State veterinary organs: creation of policy, supervision and

evaluation ( = risk assessment + communication).

Entities and district Brcko: implementation and enforcement of the

legal provisions (risk management).

Diagramm 1 shows the different administrative bodies of the Bosnian

Veterinary Services and their relationship. A general list of tasks of
veterinary services and a general description of the duties of staff
(distribution of the tasks) is given in the ANNEXES (B and C) . The
veterinary law describes the division of the responsibilities between
State and Entities.

Diagramm 1: Organisational Diagram of the involved bodies of State

CCA
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and Entities:

Federation Ministry and RS Ministry and

Inspectorate Inspectorate District Brcko

FED approved LABs RS approved LABs

Border Inspection
Posts

Kantonal Veterinary RS Veterinary units (6)

units (10)

Diagram 2 shows the organisational structure of the Central Competent

Authority (CCA) of the Veterinary Services of BiH which is subordinated
to the Ministry of Trade in the State of BiH.

Diagram2: Organisational structure of the CCA of the Veterinary

Services in BiH

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Directorate

Border Inspection Department for Legal, Financial

and Trade Issues 2 and Administrative issues 6

Animal Health IT Department 7

Department 3

Food and Feed EU Harmonisation

Departement 4 issues 8

Animal ID
Department 5

A brief description of the planned staffing of the departments is given

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At the State level the Veterinary Body is named: Central Competent Authorithy (CCA)

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below:
1
Directorate + associated services (Interpreter, driver,
secretary) consisting out of one Director and two deputies.
2
Border inspection and trade issues (head responsible for
legislation, 20 Veterinary border inspectors, 2 co-ordinators)
3
Animal health department (Head responsible for legislation, 2
Epidemiologist responsible for disease control, 1 or 2 Veterinary
drug specialists, diagnostic laboratories, animal welfare)
4
Food and feed (Head responsible for legislation, 3 specialists
for food hygiene, 1 specialist for feed, 1 specialist for drug and
residue monitoring and surveillance)
5
Animal ID department (Agency in Banja Luka)
6
Department for legal financial and administrative issues
(2 lawyer, 1 book keeper, 1 financial manager, one assistant)
7
IT Department
8
Department for EU Harmonisation issues (3 specialists)

The present Veterinary Inspection Department shall be abandoned. The

inspection tasks are executed by the Entities and the district of Brcko.
The supervision of the Local Veterinary Units and the Head Units of the
Entities (Ministry and Inspectorate) shall lie within the competencies of
the Departments in charge and as described in the veterinary law. In
addition exists a network of authorised Laboratories. The laboratories
are authorised by the Entities. Some of those laboratories are
authorised by the CCA to act as reference laboratories.

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 ANNEXES

(A) Basic structure of legislation

(B) Tasks of the BiH veterinary administration

(C) Staff and Job descriptions

(D) Facilities and equipment

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 (A) Basic structure of legislation

Proposed structure of BiH veterinary Legislation

with view of harmonisation with EU provisions

Laws: (A) Veterinary law; (B) Animal welfare law; (C) Animal by product law; (D)
Veterinary drugs and pharmaceuticals; (E) Feed law;

A Veterinary law

Contents: Definitions, Organisation, structure and responsibilities; Information

reporting certification; Veterinary chamber; animal health,
veterinary public health, import export transit; animal movement,
funding, compensation, revenues, supervision, sanctions

EU provisions (Law): Regulation (EC) 178/2002 General food law principles;

Regulation (EC) 882/2004 Official controls of foodstuffs and
feedstuffs; Regulation (EC) 854/2004 Official controls of animal
origin products; Council Directive 89/662/EEC IC trade – vet checks
in products; Council Directive 90/425/EEC IC trade – vet checks in
live animals; Regulation (EC) 852/2004/EC Hygiene of
foodstuffs; Regulation (EC) 853/2004 Hygiene for animal origin
food;

Sublaws: (1) Regulations for animal disease control (brucellosis, leukosis, TB,
rabies, IBR, notification, notifiable diseases, exotic diseases,
CSF, .....); (2) Animal identification and movement control; (3)
Food hygiene surveillance and superviusion of approved
establishments,(4) requirements on food producers and primary
production; (5) Trade with products and animals, Import, Export,
Transit; (6) residue monitoring;

EU provisions (sublaws): please order to following groups: (a) hygiene package; (b)
trade provisions and import; (c) disease control provisions

Regulation (EC) 178/2002 General food law principles; Regulation

(EC) 882/2004 Official controls of foodstuffs and feedstuffs;
Regulation (EC) 854/2004 Official controls of animal origin products;
Council Directive 89/662/EEC IC trade – vet checks in products;
Council Directive 90/425/EEC IC trade – vet checks in live animals;
Regulation (EC) 852/2004/EC Hygiene of foodstuffs Regulation (EC)
Regulation (EC) 853/2004 Hygiene for animal origin food;
Regulation (EC) 2073/2005 Microbiological criteria for foodstuffs;
Regulation (EC) 2074/2005 Implementing measures for certain
products; Regulation (EC) 2075/2005 specific rules on official
controls for Trichinella in meat; Regulation (EC) 2076/2005
Transitional arrangements;
Council Directive 2002/99/EC Animal health rules –general; Council
Directive 92/102/EEC identification and registration of animals;
Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 identification and registration of
bovine animal, labelling of beef and beef products; Commission

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 Regulation (EC) 911/2004 ear tags, holding registers, passports;
Commission Regulation (EC) 1082/2003 minimum level of controls,
bovine animals; Commission Regulation EC) 494/98 administrative
sanctions, bovine animals; Council Directive 96/93/EC certification
of animals and animal products; Council Directive 64/432/EEC
animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in ovine
animals and swine; Council Directive 90/426/EEC animal health
conditions governing the movement and import from third countries
of equidae; Council Directive 90/539/EEC animal health conditions
governing intra-Community trade in, and imports from third
countries of, poultry and hatching eggs; Council Directive 1/68/EEC
animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in ovine
and caprine animals; Council Directive 97/12/EC health problems
affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine;
Commission Decision 73/53/EEC swine vesicular disease; Council
Directive 2001/89/EC control of classical swine fever Commission
Decision 2002/106/EC Diagnostic manual (CSF); Council Directive
2003/85/EC control of foot and mouth disease; Council Directive
90/423/EEC control of foot-and-mouth disease; Council Directive
90/425/EEC veterinary and zootechnical checks, live animals and
products ; Council Directive 92/35/EEC control rules and measures
to combat African horse sickness; Council Directive 92/66/EEC
control of Newcastle disease; Council Directive 92/119/EEC swine
vesicular disease; Commission Decision 91/42/EEC contingency
plans, foot-and-mouth disease; Council Directive 78/52/EEC
brucellosis, tuberculosis, enzootic leucosis in cattle; Council
Directive 80/1095/EEC classical swine fever; Council Directive
82/400/EEC brucellosis, tuberculosis, leucosis in cattle; Council
Decision 90/242/EEC eradication of brucellosis in sheep and goats;
Council Decision 90/424/EEC expenditure in the veterinary field;
Council Directive 91/68/EEC animal health conditions, ovine and
caprine animals; Council Directive 82/894/EEC Notification ADNS;
Directive 2003/99/EC Monitoring of zoonoses;
Council Directives 91/496/EEC (Import controls on live animals);
Council Directives 92/65/EEC Animal health requirements of
animals, semen, ova and embryos; Council Directive 97/78/EC
Import controls on products of animal origin; Council Directive
96/43/EC Fees; Commission Decision 2001/812/EC Requirements
for the approval of Border Inspection Points; Council Directive
2002/99/EC Animal health rules governing introduction of products
of animal origin for human consumption; Commission Regulation
(EC) 998/2003 Non-commercial pet animals; Commission
Regulation (EC) 745/2004 private products of animal origin in
luggage or mail and parcels; Council Directive 2004/68/EC animal
health rules for the importation and transit of certain live ungulate
animals;

B Animal welfare law

Contents: General responsibilities of animal keeper;

EU provisions (Law): German Animal Welfare law (Matrix);

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 Council Directive 1999/74/EC protection of laying hens;
Commission Directive 2002/4/EC protection of laying hens;
Council Directive 91/629/EEC protection of calves; Council
Directive 91/630/EEC protection of pigs; Council Directive
98/58/EC protection of animals kept for farming purposes;
Council Regulation (EC) 1255/97 staging points, route plan;
Council Directive 93/119/EC protection of animals during
slaughter or killing; Transport Regulation 1/2007 Transport;

Sublaws: (1b)protection of laying hens, (1c) protection of calves, (1d)

protection of pigs, (1a) protection of animals kept for farming
purposes, (3) staging points, route plan, (2) protection of
animals during slaughter or killing, (3) Transport

EU provisions (sublaws): Council Directive 1999/74/EC protection of laying hens;

Commission Directive 2002/4/EC protection of laying hens;
Council Directive 91/629/EEC protection of calves; Council
Directive 91/630/EEC protection of pigs; Council Directive
98/58/EC protection of animals kept for farming purposes;
Council Regulation (EC) 1255/97 staging points, route plan;
Council Directive 93/119/EC protection of animals during
slaughter or killing; Transport Regulation 1/2007 Transport;

(C) Animal by product law

Contents: Rendering, waste disposal, handling of by products;

classification in categories

EU provisions (Law): Regulation (EC) 1774/2002 Animal–by products; Regulation

(EC) 999/2001 Control and eradication of TSE;

Sublaws: Approval of establishments, collection and disposal

procedures

EU provisions (sublaws): Regulation (EC) 1774/2002 Animal–by products; Regulation

(EC) 999/2001 Control and eradication of TSE;

(D) Veterinary drugs and pharmaceuticals

Contents: Licensing of vet. Medicines and pharmazeuticals, production

of vet medicines and pharmaceuticals, import, storage,
distribution, documentation,

EU provisions (Law): Directive 2001/82/EC authorisation of veterinary medicinal

products; Council Directive 90/167/EEC preparation,
marketing and use of medicated feedingstuffs; Council

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 Directive 96/22/EC prohibition of certain substances in
stockfarming; Council Directive 96/23/EC monitoring of
substances and residues in live animals and animal products;
Commission Decision 2002/657/EC analytical methods and
the interpretation of results; Commission Decision 97/747 EC
levels and frequencies of sampling for Directive 96/23);

Sublaws: Monitoring of substances; Control of application and usage of

vet. Medicines (supervision of farms and vet. Practices);
production of vet. Med pharmaceuticals; ....

EU provisions (sublaws): Council Directive 96/22/EC prohibition of certain substances in

stockfarming; Council Directive 96/23/EC monitoring of substances
and residues in live animals and animal products; Commission
Decision 2002/657/EC analytical methods and the interpretation of
results; Commission Decision 97/747 EC levels and frequencies of
sampling for Directive 96/23);Testing of V.M.P. Dir. 2001/82/EC;
MRL's of V.M.P. in foodstuffs of animal origin Reg. 2377/90;
Supervision of V.M.P. Reg. 2309/93; Biotechnical prod. Dir. 93/41/EC;
B.S.T. – Prohibition Dec. 1999/879/EC; Vaccine and Sera's prod.
Dir. 2001/82/EC; GMP of V.M.P. Dir. 91/412/EEC; Good laboratory
practise (GLP) Dir. 88/320/EEC; Genetically modified organisms
(GMO) Dir. 90/219/EEC; Traceability & labelling of GMOs Reg.
1830/2003; GLP inspection & verification Dir. 2004/9/EC; GLP – tests
on chemicals Dir. 2004/10/EC;

(E) Feed law;

Contents: Definitions, approvals, labelling, additives, supervision and

control, monitoring and sampling

EU provisions (Law): Regulation (EC) 882/2004 Official controls of foodstuffs

and feedstuffs; Regulation (EC) 183/2005 Hygiene of
feedstuffs;

Sublaws: Regulation on feed and feed control

EU provisions (sublaws): Regulation (EC) 882/2004 Official controls of foodstuffs

and feedstuffs; Regulation (EC) 183/2005 Hygiene of
feedstuffs; Regulation (EC) 1829/2003 and 1831/2003
additives in feedingstuffs and GMO; Commission Regulation
(EC) No 645/2000 Authorisation of new additives, new
additive uses and new additive preparations in feedingstuff;
Council Directive 79/373/EEC marketing of compound
feedingstuffs; Council Directive 82/471/EEC products used in
animal nutrition; Council Directive 96/25/EC circulation of
feed materials; Directive 2002/32/EC undesirable
substances in animal nutrition; Additives in FS
Dir. 70/524/EEC, 2002/C/329/01; Encyms, microorganisms
in FS Dir. 93/113/EEC

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 (B) Tasks of the BiH veterinary administration

General Tasks of CCA

 Advise on policy matters to the Ministry
 Budget management
 Forming - in assistance with the junior veterinary officers - strategies and
plans for legislation and surveillance programmes in all sections
 Preparation of Veterinary law(s)
 Representation of the Veterinary Services to the outside
 Deciding and signing final measures in case of disease outbreaks according
to the legislation
 Signing of drafts of the legislation being forwarded to the decision bodies
 Reporting of disease outbreaks to OIE, international bodies and
neighbouring countries

CCA: Animal disease control Department

 Preparation of legislation for animal disease control including rendering and
movement control
 Preparation of contingency plans for list A diseases
 Supervision of animal disease control and eradication programs
 Preparation of records and statistics of list A and list B diseases
 Planning of an rendering system
 Creation of legislation for the rendering system
 Supervision of disease eradication programmes and disease control in case
of outbreaks

CCA: Veterinary Border Inspection

 carry out registration of importers;

 prepare and issue import permissions for animals and products of animal
origin;
 supply documentation and working instructions for BIP inspection;
 supervise BIP´s and BIP inspectors;
 support the creation and implementation of an import legislation (sublaw);
 co-ordinate the ongoing process of upgrading the BIP inspection system
(purchasing equipment and constructing facilities);
 supply conditions and certificates (i.e. translation) to local veterinary units in
case of export of animals and products;
 arrange regular meetings with BIP inspectors for information and training;

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  collect and summarize records and statistics of Import and export;
 plan and organize the work at the BIP in co-operation with the BIP inspector
colleague if appropriate;
 inspection of live animals and products of animal origin (food and non-food)
at the BIP
 recording of consignments and results of inspections according to the
specifications of the headquarter;

AGENCY: Animal ID and movement control

 Assessment of the necessary technical equipment (phone, fax, PC, modem,
copy machine)
 Acquisition of equipment (i.e. eartags, paperforms, …..)
 Assistance in the installation and maintenance of office equipment and
network connections
 Installation of databases for animal ID and movement control and BIP
inspection
 Implementation of the animal ID and movement control system (eartagging,
animal passports, farm registers, database)
 Planning of outside contracting and outsourcing of control tasks (collecting
of data, eartagging)
 Preparation of working instructions for local veterinary units and other
involved organisations in the case of animal ID and movement control
program
 Preparation of records and statistics
 Information of local veterinary units about the animal ID and movement
data

CCA: Food and Feed Department

 Creation of an yearly residue monitoring plan with view on the EU
requirements for food and feed
 Assistance with the embedding of the residue monitoring program in the
food and feed legislation
 Creation of legislation on veterinary drugs their approval and their
surveillance
 Registration of veterinary drugs licensed by the legislation for use on
animals for food production and other animals
 Approvals for veterinary vaccines
 GMP surveillance
 Supervision of veterinary laboratories (reference laboratories)
 Preparation of regulation (s) for hygiene in production and processing of
food of animal origin ( meat hygiene including requirements on ante mortem
and post mortem meat inspection, requirements on slaughterhouses and
meat processing plants, etc)

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  Preparation of regulation (s) for hygienic conditions on trading and
distribution of products and food of animal origin
 Preparation of records and statistics

CCA: Animal welfare

 produce animal welfare legislation and guidelines for producers
,transporters, slaughterhouses and markets

Entities: Ministries and Inspectorates

 Preparation of contracts for outsourced tasks

 Preparation of an reporting scheme for private veterinarians working on
public tasks
 Supervision of animal disease control programmes and local veterinary units
carrying out those programmes
 Preparation of working instructions for local veterinary officers
 Planning of outside contracting and outsourcing of control tasks
(vaccination, tests, sampling)
 Supervision of disease eradication programmes and disease control in case
of outbreaks
 Preparation of records and statistics
 Preparation of yearly sampling, vaccination and testing plans for the
execution of the animal disease control programmes
 Planning of outside contracting and outsourcing of control tasks (sampling,
residue monitoring)
 Surveillance of the veterinary drugs
 Preparation of working instructions for local veterinary officers in case of
surveillance of drugs and veterinary pharmacies
 Supervision of veterinary laboratories
 Surveillance of the food hygiene controls of slaughterhouses ( which are
executed by the local veterinary units)
 Planning of outside contracting and outsourcing of control tasks (ante and
post mortem inspection in slaughterhouses, hygiene surveillance in meat
processing plants)
 Preparation of records and statistics

Local veterinary units

 Executing tasks as given by the legislation with regard to food and feed
control and surveillance
 Executing tasks as given by the legislation with regard to animal disease
control programs and animal welfare

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 Preparation of the detailed plans for the outsourced tasks in his unit
(sampling, vaccination, testing, meat inspection and hygiene surveillance)
 Calculation of the costs of outsourced tasks
 Surveillance of the veterinary drugs and veterinary pharmacies
 Supervision of private veterinarians which are contracted for the outsourced
tasks
 Providing the headquarter with the data according to animal disease
surveillance and control programmes
 Providing the headquarter with the data found at hygiene surveillance
 Certification of veterinary documents for animal movements (internal
market) and export
 Co-operation with BIP´s in case of imports of animals
 Taking legal measures and sampling in case of suspicion or outbreak of
notifiable diseases
 Register of private veterinarians in the area of the local veterinary unit
 Preparation of records and statistics

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 (C) Staff and Job descriptions

Sample, not completed for all proposed units!!!!

Directorate (and Deputies):

The director of the SVS should be appointed on the basis of technical capabilities and
experience. The director and his deputies will be responsible for the establishment,
upgrading, overall supervision and management of the SVS, and will advise the Ministries
involved on policy matters; represent the SVS with international counterparts when
needed; coordinate organization’s tasks with other relevant administrative bodies;
manage the SVS budget; clear all draft legislation for forwarding to the relevant
administrative bodies; adjust and up-grade job descriptions as required.

Veterinary Specialists of SVS:

Border Inspection Post Coordination Unit:

 register and issue import licences to importers of live animals, animal products
and food of animal origin;

 provide export criteria and official certificates for issuance by the Field Veterinary
Unit;

 provide working instructions and supervise the BIPs and BIP inspectors; collect all
data and statistics relevant to imports and exports of animals, animal products
and food of animal origin;

 support the creation and implementation of import and export sub-laws.

Animal Health Surveillance and animal ID Unit:

 establish a disease notification system, and prepare and manage records and
statistics of list A and B diseases;

 plan and supervise contingency plans for list A diseases;

 assist in the creation of an animal waste rendering system;

 cooperate with the Institutes of Public Health for the control of zoonosis; assist in
the preparation of sub-law legislation for animal disease control programmes;

 health monitoring (including food of animal origin) capability;

Animal ID and movement Agency:

 implement the animal identification, herd registration

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  and movement control system

 supervise outsourced animal ID system control tasks;

 assist in the preparation of the sub-law legislation for animal ID and movement
control.

Food and Feed Hygiene, and Drug and Residue Surveillance Unit:

 establish a system for licensing, and control of veterinary pharmaceuticals;

 assist in the establishment of a residue monitoring system for animal products in

line with EU requirements;

 assist in the preparation of sub-laws legislation for licencing, controlling of

veterinary pharmaceuticals and pharmacovigilance;

 preparation of provisions for production, processing, storage, distribution and

trade of food of animal origin and feed;

 manage records and data, collect and evaluate data

 cooperate closely with sanitary and phytosanitary services in the field of food
hygiene and surveillance;

Animal Welfare Unit :

 preparation of sub-law legislation for the welfare of animal husbandry, breeding,

transport and slaughtering practices;

 supervise the correct implementation of animal welfare legislation.

 sub-laws;

Legal Department :

 assist in all public and regulatory affairs with respect to measures and
implementation of laws.

 assist in the preparation of draft laws and sub-laws in close cooperation with the
EU integration department and competent Ministries;

 develop and operate auditing procedures to ensure the quality of monitoring,

surveillance and controls at all levels of the organization;

Local Veterinary Units

 supervise and inspect premises and procedures in the food production chain
(farms and food production establishments).

 Control and sampling of feed

 responsible for the execution of animal disease control and eradication programs

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  enforcement of the contingency plans on the local level in case of disease
outbreaks;

 prepare work instructions and supervise contracted veterinarians (disease control

and eradication tasks outsourced to private practitioners);

 Responsible for taking samples for monitoring programmes and for end product
analysis.

 supervise professional staff in charge of public tasks regarding food surveillance

and control (i.e. meat inspection);

 issue export certificates

 report to the inspectorates of the Entities including Brcko District

Border/Boundary Inspection Posts (BIP)

 prepare and organize work plans in collaboration with the BIP coordination unit;

 inspect and authorize entry for all live animals, feed and animal products (food
and non-food);

 record and manage data regarding passage of all consignments;

 sample animals, feed and products of animal origin;

 prepare statistics for submission to the BIP coordination unit;

 inform the BIP coordination unit of consignments not conforming to

 legislation;

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 (D) Facilities and equipment

Basic needs on facilities and equipment (Overview, to be completed !!!).

Headquarter

Offices, Toilets, meeting rooms, social room

Common furnishing
Fax machine
Copy machine
Vehicle
Official gazette
Different Veterinary journals
Veterinary literature

Veterinary specialist
Phone and mobile phone
PC (internet connection) and printer
PC standart software
Vet. Spec. software: Traces, ADNS, Vetlex,
Desk (Office furniture)
Office materials

Local Veterinary Units

Office (one room for the head of the unit, one room for deputy and one room for
secretary and or auxiliary person, for each additional professional staff a room is
required).
Common furnishing:
Fax machine
Mobile phone
Copy machine
Vehicle
Different Veterinary journals
Veterinary literature
PC (internet connection)
Copy machines
Microscope
Sampling equipment for each Local veteribary Unit
Blood smpling
Tissue
Feces
Food
protective chlothes, disinfection equipment, sampling equipment
Thermometer (food , animals)
Stetoskop
Refrigerator, freezer
Disinfection equipment

Head, deputy, secretary, auxiliary:

Phone
Vet. Spec. software: Traces, ADNS, Vetlex,
Desk (Office furniture)

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 Office materials

Border Inspection Post

office furnished with each 3 working places (two veterinarians, one auxiliary)
Phone
Fax machine
PCs (internet)
Copy machine
Inspection Container with docking station each (medium term solution)
Sampling and inspection equipment for each Border Post

Border Disinfection Posts

Facilities and equipment are in place already?

Costs (estimate)

To be completed!!!!!!!

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