AFSA chairman comments on entrepreneurs’’ dissatisfaction on high prices of certificates

Baku. 29 January. REPORT.AZ/ Goshgar Tahmazli, chairman of the Azerbaijan Food Security Agency (AFSA), has commented on entrepreneur's dissatisfaction with high prices of the certificates required for agricultural products.

Report informs that in his speech at the conference on the results of the "State Program on Socio-Economic Development of the regions of Azerbaijan for 2014-2018” the Agency chief said the state fees and tariffs are determined with refpect to the components and ingredients designed for the examination ".

According to him, the expertise of agrochemicals in the country had been out for 10 AZN till AFSA was established: "However, the cost price and toxicological analysis for examination of one pesticide amounts to AZN 170. Therefore, this amount only meets the minimum cost of reactives and equipment to carry out the examination."