Науковий вісник Львівського національного університету ветеринарної медицини та біотехнологій імені С.З. Ґжицького: Серія Ветеринарні науки (Nov 2022)

Draft Law of Ukraine on the creation of the Self-governing Veterinary Body on the Base of International Experience

  • N. V. Klietsova,
  • A. V. Vyniarska,
  • A. M. Klietsov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.32718/nvlvet10805
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 108
pp. 26 – 37

Abstract

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The article researched the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code to be a crucial part of the WTO international trade legal framework. The study established that countries wishing to become full members of the WTO should bring their legislation in line with OIE standards, according to which the veterinarian is the person with appropriate education, licensed by the independent self-governing body of the particular country. Empirical, systematic, and theoretical research methods, as well as the foreign experience of veterinary medicine colleagues from Poland, Ireland, Italy, Great Britain, and Austria, allowed the authors of this article to implement the received information concerning the creation of the statutory veterinary body into the draft law of Ukraine. The article revealed that according to Article 3.2.5. of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code of the World Health Organization, only the Self-governing Body carried the legal responsibility and acted based on legislative acts. The authors proposed the draft of the Law of Ukraine “On Professional Activity of the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Self-governing Body (Veterinary Parliament)”. Implementation of this Law on practice is necessary and timely because 1) veterinary medicine doctors will be united into a single body, which is interested in increasing the prestige of the profession; 2) there will be a reduction in the percentage of conflict of interests (the state provides services and the state controls the performance of these services) due to the transfer of state veterinary doctors to the private segment; 3) the state will delegate services to the self-governing body for the organization of preventive measures and measures to eliminate infectious and parasitic diseases of animals, zoonosis; 4) there will be control of “Lifelong learning” by deprivation of permission or suspension of the permit to carry out the veterinary practice.

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