Russian manufacturers of veterinary drugs have applied to the Federal Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Agriculture with a request to allocate the production of medicines for veterinary use to a separate industry and include it in the All-Russian classifier of economic activities (OKVED). This is reported by the “Zoo Inform” publication.
According to Alexander Isaev, the executive director of the National Veterinary Association, domestic veterinary drugs producers cannot receive state support (none of them has received any assistance in connection with the coronavirus pandemic). This creates obstacles for import substitution and the development of the existing export potential.
Experts also described the status of veterinary drugs manufacturers as underdetermined. They do not belong to agricultural producers, and, therefore, no state support through the Ministry of Agriculture is possible. There can be no assistance under the programs of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, since the ministry regulates only the manufacturing of drugs for human use. In this connection, the industry experts proposed to the Ministry of Agriculture to amend the Federal Law “On the Development of Agriculture”.
