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Today, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan hosted a regular meeting of the Committee to Combat Illicit Trafficking of Industrial Products in Tatarstan. This time it was about the results of the supervision over the circulation of counterfeit dairy products in the republic in the first 6 months of 2019. The meeting was chaired by Minister Albert Karimov.

In her report, Head of the Rospotrebnadzor Office in Tatarstan Marina Patyashina said: “In the course of supervisory measures in the first half of the year, no cases were revealed of dairy products falsification from Tatarstan producers, only violations of imported products from other regions were recorded”.

Deputy Head of Tatarstan Office of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Yevgeny Ivanov, informed the audience of the need to issue accompanying veterinary documents for products such as butter, cream, condensed milk, and other finished dairy products from July 1, 2019. This measure would significantly reduce opportunities for falsification of dairy products. From November 1, 2019, veterinary certificates will be issued for all dairy products.

Summing up the meeting, Minister Karimov proposed to unite the efforts of regulatory and law enforcement agencies in order to identify and counter the spread of counterfeit products in the consumer market of Tatarstan.

Today, the Gorky Zelenodolsk Shipyard saw a keel-laying ceremony for a Project 22800 small missile ship named “Typhoon”. The event was attended by Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolay Yevmenov, Deputy Prime Minister of Tatarstan Albert Karimov, and other officials.

The ceremony was held at the festively decorated yard of Workshop No. 17.

Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy opened the event with his speech: “I am glad that I had the honour to visit hospitable Tatarstan and attend the keel-laying ceremony of another Project 22800 small missile ship, “Typhoon”, at the oldest and merited shipyard... I note that the Russian Navy today is at the stage of its active development, the full-scale construction of small and large displacement ships is underway, which would allow us to have self-sufficient surface forces”.

By tradition, the event ended with the award ceremony of the company’s employees who made a significant contribution to the building of ships for the Russian Navy.

Project 22800 small-sized missile ships are multipurpose missile-artillery vessels of small displacement designed to operate in the close-in maritime zones. The tasks of Project 22800 small missile ships are to perform combat operations in green waters and to participate in the peacetime missions.

Please be informed that the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation is conducting a competitive selection for the right to be granted subsidies from the federal budget to industry participants engaged in mastering the production and sales of pilot batches of capital goods.

According to Decree of the Russian Government No. 634 of April 25, 2017, the mechanism is aimed at providing financial support to organisations in the form of compensation of up to 50 percent of the amount of expenses associated with the production and sales of pilot batches of capital goods, while reducing the price of these products by 15-20 percent off their market price, which contributes to the entry of pilot batches of equipment into the market in the absence of references and operating experience of innovative industrial products.

Subsidies are granted to domestic manufacturers of products related to the sectors of heavy, oil and gas, power engineering, machine tool industry, food and road construction machinery, as well as treatment and disposal of waste for stimulating the introduction of state-of-the-art hi-tech means of production into pilot operation.

All in all, financing is expected to be provided in the total amount of RUB 1.2 billion.

More detailed information is also available on the official website of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade at http://minpromtorg.gov.ru