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The personal office of the unified state register of animals is a step towards facilitating the service of enterprises

On December 10, Derzhprospozhyvsluzhba together with the Agency for Identification and Registration of Animals (АІRT), with the assistance of the Association of Milk Producers (AMP), held an online presentation of the Personal Account of the Unified State Register of Animals (ЕDRT). The purpose of the application is to simplify and facilitate the identification and registration of animals.

"The proper functioning of the system of identification and registration of animals is one of the main mechanisms used in most countries to ensure traceability of farm animals and products of animal origin. This is an important indicator in opening new and maintaining existing markets for the export of national, in our case, Ukrainian goods, "- said the head of SSUFSCP Vladyslava Rutytska during the presentation.

SSUFSCP and AIRT are ready to cooperate with the member farms of the Association of Milk Producers to test the personal account of the USRT user and receive feedback.  Farms will be able to provide feedback on failures or delays, indicate their recommendations for improving the functionality of the personal account. At the end of the test period, a webinar will be held to summarize.

«This is an important step towards facilitating the service of farms-users of the Unified State Register of Animals, which is especially important during the period of quarantine restrictions. We welcome such an initiative and are ready to continue to organize similar training events.  Moreover, we already have a very positive experience in organizing joint regional trainings with AIRT for dairy farms. A close dialogue with SSUFSCP and AIRT allows manufacturers to ask as many questions as possible and receive comprehensive qualified answers, and services - to receive quality feedback and respond in a timely manner to comments and suggestions.  For their part, AMP is ready to participate as much as possible in testing, operational adaptation and implementation of the personal account of the EDRT user," said Hanna Lavreniuk, General Director of the Association of Milk Producers.

"This mechanism allows business entities to control us - the state authorities, because you can clearly follow the process of submitting and reviewing documents.  We hope that the functionality we have shown will be much more convenient and will significantly save money and time for farms.  We emphasize that at present this is only a basic version, which we expect to improve due to the feedback of farms,"- said the head of AIRT Igor Klymenok.

The recording of the online presentation of the Personal Account of EDRT can be viewed on Facebook at the link: https://fb.watch/2hAeKORKtK/