Vietnam: Forms of penalties for administrative violations against regulations on livestock breeds, animal feeds and aqua feeds

According to Decree No. 64/2018/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, penalties and remedial measures are specified as follows:

1. The entity that commits one of the administrative violations against regulations on livestock breeds, animal and aqua feeds must incur a warning or a fine.

2. The entity that commits an administrative violation must, subject to the nature and severity of the violation, also face one or several additional penalties as follows:

- Suspend operations for a fixed period;

- Confiscate the exhibits and instrumentalities for committing administrative violations.

3. The violating entity is also liable to enforce one or several remedial measures as follows:

- Enforced recall of livestock breeds; animal feeds and aqua feeds;

- Enforced recycling of animal feeds and aqua feeds;

- Enforced repurposing of animal feeds, aqua feeds, or livestock breeds;

- Enforced re-exporting of animal feeds, aqua feeds, or livestock breeds;

- Enforced destruction of prohibited substances; animal and aqua feed products; raised livestock or aquatic animals; livestock breeds;

- Enforced invalidation of results of experiment with animal feeds or aqua feeds;

- Enforced correction of information on labels or accompanied technical documents of the entire batch of animal and aqua feed products;

- Enforced raising of animals or aquatic animals which have been fed with prohibited substances until testing report indicates that no prohibited substance residue exists;

- Enforced implementation of environmental pollution control measures;

- Enforced relocation of facilities that produce aquatic breeds;

- Enforced correction of experimental or testing results.

Decree No. 64/2018/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government takes effect from June 22, 2018.

- Thanh Lam -

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