The MPs gave a second reading to a bill that will regulate the activity of freelance veterinarians. The bill introduces benefits for young veterinarian specialists for motivating them to work in rural areas, creating this way a staff basis in the field, IPN reports.

The bill to amend the law on sanitary-veterinary activity aims to improve the implementation of the statutory action program for supervising and fighting animal diseases, for preventing the transmission of animal diseases from animals to humans and for protecting the environment.

The new provisions refer to the ensuring by the state of minimum guaranteed veterinary services intended for the citizens who keep animals for own consumption.

The bill also introduces the notion of “nonprofessional exploitation” for removing the ambiguity in differentiating entrepreneurial activity from the activity of keeping animals for own consumption and simplifies the sanitary-veterinary authorization procedure.

“The given law will also encourage the development of the animal breeding sector that is an important area of the economy both for ensuring domestic food security and for facilitating export,” says the informative note to the bill.