Through the National Service for Agri-Food Health and Quality (Senasa), a second stage of the administrative simplification and reorganization process has begun, which involves modifications that make it easier for users to select procedures and promote digital management.
The National Service for Health and Food Quality (Senasa) reduced by nearly 60%, from 1.141 to 475, the list of fees it charged for its services to private operators, according to two resolutions published this Friday (9.2.2018) in the Official Gazette.
The first of these rules, the Resolution 12-E/2018 of the Ministry of Agroindustry, approves the new tariff amounts of Senasa and establishes exemptions, for example for producers of so-called family agriculture.
According to the Resolution 49-E/2018 Senasa contains the list of sections in which the agency must charge fees to private operators during 2018.
The annex to this provision takes up more than 100 pages, but a good part of the boxes now appear blank because Senasa has been reducing both the number of procedures required of food producers and the fees it charged for these services.
"Progress was made in debureaucratization by simplifying the amount of tariffs by more than 50% with respect to the previous base," Senasa spokesmen celebrated.
In the new structure published, the mandatory procedures were reduced from 280 to 199, and the fees corresponding to these services were reduced from 1.141 to 475, by nearly 60%.
"This produces benefits for both the organization and the user of the service," Senasa said, and a good part of the procedures that no longer have to be carried out or fees paid have to do with the registration or renewal of licenses for productive establishments.
However, the fees for slaughter controls or for various laboratory analyses, as well as the health certificates required for the export of food, are maintained.
"Each provision of the new tariff base was established following the criterion of equity in the agri-food chains and thus progress was made in debureaucratization, by simplifying the amount of tariffs by more than 50% with respect to the previous base," the organization stressed.
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