The state-run company “Center of Quarantine, Identification, Arbitration Expertize and Production Disinfection” will be reorganized by merger (absorption) with the state-run company “State Center for Certification of Seed Material” and the state-owned company “Center of Standardization and Determination of the Quality of Fodder and Cereal Products”, IPN reports, quoting a Government decision.

The new institution will be named the state-run company “National Center of Verification and Certification of Vegetal Products and Soil”. The goal of the reorganization is to optimize the administrative costs of state-enterprises and the provision of centralized services to beneficiaries.

The reorganization will also allow relocating the labs of the given companies in a common block. This will reduce the costs incurred by economic entities as these will no longer need to travel to three different labs to benefit from testing.

The decision forms part of the series of actions taken to implement the food safety strategy for 2011 – 2015 and the national agricultural and rural development strategy for 2014 – 2020.