DUSHANBE, August 6, Asia-Plus — A ceremony of handover of “Rules of Carrying out of Inspections” was held at Tajikistan’s National Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision on August 6.
Telling the brochure-handover ceremony, Samariddin Aliyev, Head of the Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision, said that new inspectorate’s procedures are the result of cooperation between the Center and International Finance Corporation (IFC). IFC Project Entrepreneurship Development Project, funded by the Swiss Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), provided a considerable technical assistance with elaboration of new rules, which have been registered with the Ministry of Justice in July this year, Aliyev said.
“Under the new law on inspections the Center has become the first of 22 inspecting bodies to elaborate its inspectorate’s procedures,” Aliyev said, noting that with endorsing the new law on inspections, the government made the next move towards creation favorable environment of functioning and development of small and medium enterprises in the country.
The Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision is one of three pilot bodies, cooperating with IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, in implementation of the new law on inspections. The other two pilot inspecting bodies are the Tajik Firefighting Service and the Tax Committee.
We will recall that IFC and the Tajikistan’s Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision signed a joint action plan to promote cooperation between the two organizations in March this year. The objective is to work together to improve sanitary supervision procedures in Tajikistan according to the Inspections Law adopted by the government in the summer of 2006.
With the signing of this action plan the Center has confirmed the Health Ministry’s commitment to work with IFC and comply with the sanitary regulations under the new Inspections Law.
The plan contains a detailed list of actions for both parties to undertake in 2007, including: setting up risk categories for the economic entities and elaborating general inspection rules and specific checklists for each category of entities inspected by the Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision; building capacity of sanitary inspectors through training; and organizing ongoing informational campaigns on the new rules and regulations.
