They tried to transport potatoes from the Oryol region to Bryansk without a quarantine certificate, the press service of the regional Rosselkhoznadzor reports.
At the mobile traffic police post of the Orel-Bryansk highway, Rosselkhoznadzor specialists in the Oryol and Kursk regions, during a joint raid with state traffic inspectors, stopped an attempt to export 20 tons of food potatoes to Bryansk from the quarantine phytosanitary zone for the golden potato nematode Orlovskaya nematode without a quarantine certificate.
- In accordance with the federal law "On plant quarantine", the export of regulated products from this territory should be carried out only on the basis of a quarantine certificate, which the carrier did not have, - said the press service of the department.
For violation, the guilty person was brought to administrative responsibility in the form of a fine.