Based on the memorandum signed by Deputy Head of Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Alexey Alekseenko and Iran’s Head of Veterinary Organization Mehdi Khalaj, representatives from Russia officially confirmed the authorization of fishery products export to the Russian Federation.
Due to the agreement made, Iranian side expressed interest in exporting livestock products including poultry meat, fertilized eggs and edible eggs, honey and bee products as well as cow's intestine and skin.
The Russian side, for its part, pledged to announce the anticipated regulations of Russian and Eurasian Customs Union to Iran’s Veterinary Organization.
Based on the MoU, a team of Russian experts will travel to Iran within the next three months to assess health conditions in Iran’s poultry and dairy sector to get an export license issued in future to the Russian Federation and the Eurasian Customs Union.
According to the report, the Russian delegation visited Iran last week on Monday in order to confirm the final export of fishery products, sign bilateral protocols, facilitate the issuance of export health certificates, meet the slaughterhouse of poultry and increase awareness of companies exporting fishery products with the rules and regulations of the Russian Federation and Eurasian Customs Union (Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus). The Russian delegation left Tehran for Russia today.
The Russian delegation also visited the production and processing units of fishery products, industrial farming, dairy industry as well as poultry slaughterhouse as its one-week travel itinerary to Iran.
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