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Official translation Official translation LAW ON FEEDINGSTUFFS 6 April 2000 No. VIII-1610 Vilnius CHAPTER ONE GENERAL PROVISIONS Article

1. Purpose of the Law This Law establishes legal principles of production, storage, transportation, use and marketing of marketable feedingstuffs (hereinafter - feedingstuffs) and their official state quality control. Article
2. Scope of the Law
3. This Law shall apply to all economic entities producing, storing, transporting, using and marketing feedingstuffs as well as to the institutions which carry out official state feedingstuffs quality control.
4. The Law shall not apply to economic entities carrying feedingstuffs in transit through the territory of the Republic of Lithuania or temporarily storing feedingstuffs in Lithuania in customs warehouses, export-import terminals for goods, unless the feedingstuffs constitute a danger to human or animal health or the environment. Transit across the territory of the Republic of Lithuania of feedingstuffs which constitute a danger shall be prohibited. Article
5. Definitions As used in this Law:
6. “Feedingstuffs” means feed materials of vegetable, animal, mineral origin and artificially (biologically, microbiologically, chemically) derived feed materials, used singly or in mixtures, natural or processed, whether or not containing feed additives, for animal feeding and not endangering animal and human health.
7. “Feed materials” means products of vegetable, animal, mineral origin and artificially (biologically, microbiologically, chemically) derived products, which are intended for use in animal feeding either directly as such or in preparation of compound feedingstuffs or as carriers of premixtures
8. “Compound feedingstuffs” means mixtures of feed materials, whether or not containing feed additives, used for oral animal feeding in the form of complete or complementary feedingstuffs;
9. “Complete feedingstuffs” means mixtures of feed materials which, by reason of their composition, are sufficient for a daily ration of animals;
10. “Complementary feedingstuffs” means mixtures of feedingstuffs which have a high content of certain substances and which, by reason of their compositions, are sufficient for a daily ration of animals only if they are used in combination with other feedingstuffs;
11. “Mineral complements” means complementary feedingstuffs composed mainly of minerals and containing at least 40% of crude ash;
12. “Protein vitamin (protein vitamin mineral) complements” means mixtures of feedingstuffs composed of protein (mineral) feedingstuffs containing proteins, vitamins, micro-elements and other feed additives .
13. “Molassed feedingstuffs” means feedingstuffs composed from molasses, containing not less than 14% total sugar expressed as sacharosis;
14. “Feedingstuffs intended for particular nutritional purposes” (including dietetic feedingstuffs) means compound feedingstuffs intended for particular nutritional needs, which by virtue of their particular composition or method of manufacture can be clearly distinguished both from ordinary feedingstuffs, products and medicated feedingstuffs.
15. “Milk replacer feeds” means compound feedingstuffs for feeding young animals, nutrition properties of which resemble those of natural milk. Milk replacer feeds may be complete or complementary feedingstuffs.
16. “Daily ration” means the average total quantity of feedingstuffs, calculated on a moisture content of 12%, required daily by an animal of given species, variety, age category and yield, to satisfy all its needs;
17. “Feed additives” means substances or preparations which improve digestability of feedingstuffs, productivity of animals intended for farm purposes and satisfy all nutritional needs of animals at the particular growing stages as well as reduce the harmful effect of animal metabolism products (excretion) to the environment.
18. “Premixtures” means mixtures of one or more industrially produced feed additives with substances used as carriers, intended for the complementing of feedingstuffs;
19. “Substance used as carriers” means feed materials of vegetable and mineral origin used in order to achieve a more even distribution of feed additives in premixtures;
20. “Animals intended to the farm purposes” means animals belonging to a species normally kept and bred for food, furs, medications and other production, for guarding the house, for working and for other purposes;
21. “Economic entities” means natural, legal persons and enterprises without the right of legal person, who manufacture, store, transport, use feedingstuffs as well as market them in the Republic of Lithuania ;
22. “Marketable feedingstuffs” means feedingstuffs, feed additives or their mixtures intended for sale.
23. “Placing the feedingstuffs in the market” means putting the feedingstuffs into circulation, , also import, selling and other mean of transfer.
24. “Safe feedingstuffs” means any feedingstuffs the use whereof under regular conditions specified by the producer or under the conditions reasonably foreseeable in advance, including long-term use, presents no hazard to the life and health of animals kept for farming purposes or the hazard to their life and health which is presented by the said feedingstuffs corresponds to that defined in the legal acts as permissible and which comply with the adequate animal protection requirements, when the following has been assessed: 1) composition of feedingstuffs, packaging, the manner of production and use as well as the supervision of use thereof; 2) effect upon other feedingstuffs when these will be used together with other feedingstuffs; 3) presentation of the feedingstuff to the consumer, instruction for use and other information submitted by the producer; 4) effect upon young animals to which the feedingstuffs may be harmful.
25. “Unsafe feedingstuffs” means any feedingstuffs which do not comply with the requirements indicated for safe feedingstuffs by legal acts.
26. “Official state quality control of feedingstuffs” means a system of inspection covering production, storage, transportation, use and marketing of feedingstuffs and the official state quality control of feedingstuffs.
27. “Conformity certificate” means a document issued in accordance with certification rules, testifying that the feedingstuff identified in the prescribed manner conforms to a certain norm.
28. “Veterinary certificate” means an official document issued by the State Food and Veterinary Service attesting to the spread of animal infectious diseases (or absence thereof) in the feedingstuffs exporting country or in a certain territory of the country.
29. “Phytosanitary certificate” means an official document issued by the State Plant Protection Service certifying that the phytosanitary conditions of plants, plant products satisfies the requirements set by the importing country.
30. “Harmful (undesirable) substances, products, vegetable admixtures” means residues of any natural pollutants which are inevitably present in feedingstuffs (heavy metals, pesticides, mycotoxins and other substances), anti-nutritional products, toxical vegetable admixtures, a certain concentration whereof endangers animal health. CHAPTER TWO PROCEDURE OF the MANUFACTURE, STORAGE, TRANSPORTATION, USE AND MARKETING OF FEEDINGSTUFFS Article
31. Conditions of Manufacture of Feedingstuffs
32. Economic entities who manufacture and supply o the market must obtain authorisation according to the terms and conditions approved by the Ministry of Agriculture. Only those economical entities who possess authorisation shall be allowed to manufacture and supply into the market: 1) proteins obtained from the following groups of micro-organisms - bacteria, yeast, algae, fungi of lower ranks, also secondary products obtained from the fermentation of antibiotics, amino acids and salts of amino acids, analogues of amino acids and secondary products of amino acids as well as non-protein nitrogen raw materials - urea and ammonium salts; 2) feed additives - all additives belonging to the group of feedingstuffs antibiotics, all additives belonging to coccidiostats and other medical substances, all additives belonging to growth promoters, all additives belonging to vitamins, provitamins and additives belonging to the clearly defined chemical substances having a similar effect; all additives belonging to microelements, all additives belonging to enzymes, all additives belonging to micro-organisms, all additives belonging to carotenoids and xantophylls, additives with substances having antioxidant effect and premixtures; 3) compound feedingstuffs containing premixtures produced from feed additives listed in paragraph 2 above; 4) compound feedingstuffs containing protein feed materials and non-protein nitrogenous raw materials listed in paragraph 1 above; 5) compound feedingstuffs produced from feed materials containing harmful (undesirable) substances, products and vegetable admixtures.
33. Economic entities who are manufacturing for their own needs compound feedingstuffs containing feed additives listed in paragraph 1