(1) Placed under the authority of a Head of Department, the Quality Control and Veterinary Certification Service is responsible for:

• the preparation of draft legislative and regulatory texts relating to hygiene and veterinary public health;
• monitoring and controlling the application of health quality standards for foodstuffs of animal and fishery origin;
• monitoring the application of traceability systems for products of animal and fishery origin, in conjunction with the administrations concerned;
• the examination of applications for the approval of laboratories for the quality control of foodstuffs of animal and fishery origin;
• examining technical advice files on the import or export of foodstuffs of animal and fishery origin, in conjunction with the administrations concerned;
• certification of the sanitary quality of foodstuffs of animal and fishery origin and livestock inputs, in liaison with the administrations concerned;
• the popularization of scientific and technical documentation on quality control and veterinary certification.