How to amend the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law?
Highlight the eight highlights
On January 22, the 25th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress voted to pass the revised draft of the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law.
What are the main contents of this revision of the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law?
At the press conference of the General Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress that day, Wang Gongmin, deputy director of the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, answered the above questions raised by the Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter.
Wang Gongmin introduced that the main content and highlights of the amendment to the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law can be summarized in eight aspects:
One is to improve the animal epidemic prevention policy.
According to the laws of animal epidemic prevention and learning from advanced international practices, the policy of purification and elimination is added on the basis of monitoring and prevention.
In animal epidemic prevention, diagnosis and treatment, purification, elimination, and harmless treatment of sick and dead animals and diseased animal products have been added to complement the animal epidemic prevention supervision chain.
The second is to improve the responsibility system for epidemic prevention.
Make it clear that the main body of production and operation bears the responsibilities related to animal epidemic prevention, strengthen the supervision responsibilities of management departments and local government localization management responsibilities, straighten out the responsibilities of relevant departments in the supervision of wildlife, laboratory animals, entry and exit animals, and animal products, and strengthen inter-departmental cooperation.
The third is to improve the epidemic prevention system.
Focusing on the whole-process management of animal epidemic prevention, adjustment and strengthening of risk assessment, compulsory immunization, monitoring and early warning, regional management, animal epidemic prevention condition review, animal quarantine and other systems, and new animal epidemic purification and elimination, zoning prevention and control, transportation entities and vehicles Regulations such as filing, designated passages, and harmless treatment of sick and dead animals and diseased animal products have achieved full coverage of animal epidemic prevention activities in all links of production and operation.
The fourth is to improve public health protection.
Establish a cooperation mechanism for the prevention and control of zoonotic infectious diseases, increase the regulations on the management of epidemic prevention and control of breeding dogs, and further strengthen the prevention and control of rabies, highly pathogenic avian influenza and other zoonotic diseases.
Clarify the responsibilities of wild animal disease monitoring, strengthen the supervision of wild animal quarantine, and authorize relevant departments of the State Council to formulate wild animal quarantine measures.
The fifth is to improve the veterinary management system.
The official veterinarian appointment system is specially set up to standardize the management of official veterinarians in the customs, adjust the requirements for registration of licensed veterinarians, encourage rural veterinarians to transform to licensed veterinarians, and clarify the responsibilities of industry associations.
Sixth, improve the construction of the epidemic prevention system.
Adjust and improve the statutory functions of animal health supervision agencies and animal disease prevention and control agencies, and implement animal epidemic prevention system regulations.
The people's governments at or above the county level are required to stabilize and strengthen the construction of animal epidemic prevention teams and systems, be equipped with official veterinarians that match the quarantine work, and encourage social forces to participate in animal epidemic prevention work.
Seven is to improve safeguard measures for epidemic prevention.
Strengthen the financial protection of animal epidemic prevention, and make it clear that compulsory culled animals, destroyed animal products and related items must be compensated.
Increase the insurance, subsidies or pensions, and medical and health allowances for epidemic prevention personnel to ensure reasonable labor compensation for village-level epidemic prevention personnel.
The eighth is to improve the legal liability setting.
According to the adjustment and setting of the legal system, corresponding penalties have been set for obligatory and prohibitive clauses.
Strictly set penal standards and increase penalties such as industry bans.
Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News Reporter
Zhang Yanliang