The Ministry’s area of government includes two governmental authorities, three administered state authorities and four other legal persons – two public enterprises and two public foundations. The power of the authorities in carrying out tasks under the Ministry’s area of government have been established in their statutes.
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Agricultural Registers and Information Board (ARIB)
The Agricultural Registers and Information Board organises the award of national grants and the European Union agricultural and rural life development grants, the Fisheries Fund grants and market management grants. Additionally, the ARIB keeps national agricultural registries and other databases and processes and analyses the collected data.
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Agriculture and Food Board (AFB)
The Atriculture and Food Board conducts state supervision and applies enforcement by the state in the areas of land improvement, crop protection, plant health, plant variety protection, seed and plant propagating material, organic farming, genetically modified crop management, fertilisers and gardening products. The Board also conducts state supervision and applies enforcement by the state in the areas of veterinary practices, feed hygiene, food safety, farm animal breeding, market management and organic agriculture.
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Veterinary and Food Laboratory (VFL)
The Veterinary and Food Laboratory carries out laboratory research to diagnose animal diseases and tests to control the safety and quality of food, water, feed and alcohol and performs the duties of the national reference laboratory and the authorised laboratory.
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Agricultural Research Centre
The Centre performs national registration and economic testing of varieties, follow-up testing of seed lots, carries out laboratory analyses of seeds, determines plant protection product residues and contaminants levels in plant and animal products and in the soil, analyses the test samples taken from the plant protection products, fertilisers, feed and food.
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Estonian Crop Research Institute
The Institute is engaged in applied and fundamental research, makes agri-meteorological monitoring and forecasts, ensures the preservation breeding and preservation and research of genetic resources of the varieties, breeds new varieties and acts as a seed centre, offers research support to the advisory system, for legislative process and state supervision.
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Rural Development Foundation
The purpose of the Foundation is to support the economic development of the Estonian countryside through the implementation of the indicative programmes conducive to entrepreneurship.
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Estonian Livestock Performance Recording Ltd
The main task of Estonian Livestock Performance Recording Ltd is the improvement of the efficiency of animal husbandry by performing animal recording and independent testing of the quality of raw milk.
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Estonian Rural Museums Foundation
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Vireen AS
Vireen AS is engaged in animal waste management.