Non-profit organizationRussian Fertilizers Producers Association
Russian FertilizersProducers Association
About the Association
The Russian Association of Fertilizer Producers (RAFP) is a sectoral non-profit organization established in 2008 by the largest Russian producers of mineral fertilizers.
Andrey Andreyevich Guryev
RAFP President
Maksim Vladimirovich Kuznetsov
RAFP Executive DirectorFounders:
Члены Ассоциации на 2020 г.
| Acron PJSC (since 2008) |
Ammonium JSC (since 2016) |
| Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat LLC (successor to Salavatnefteorgsintez OJSC, since 2008) |
Hydrometallurgical Plant OJSC (since 2014) |
| MCC EuroChem JSC (since 2008) |
KuybyshevAzot PJSC (since 2008) |
| Azot KJSC (successor to SIBUR-Mineral Fertilizers JSC) |
Mendeleevskazot LLC (since 2008) |
| Minudobrenia JSC (since 2008) |
Tolyattiazot PJSC (since 2012) |
| Uralkali PJSC (since 2008) |
UCC URALCHEM JSC (since 2008) |
| Apatit JSC (successor to PhosAgro AG PJSC) |
Shchekinoazot OJSC |
The RAFP Business Profile:
- Formation and implementation of the Association members’ common position on the pressing issues of the industry’s development.
- Liaison with government authorities in the interests of the Association members, including the establishment of agricultural development programmes and agriculture-oriented industries.
- Ensuring the Association members’ communication with other domestic and foreign fertilizer producers and consumers, including representing the Association members’ interests in relations with them, as well as facilitating export.
- Arranging marketing research focused on producers and consumers of fertilizers and plant protection products.
- Developing and implementing targeted programmes for financing research, production, and supply of fertilizers and plant protection products.
- Organizing exhibitions and fairs of agricultural chemicals.
The Association’s Affiliates:
Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation
the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation
the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation
the Federal Antimonopoly Service
the Agroindustrial Union of Russia (Rosagropromsoyuz)
NIITEKHIM JSC
Environmental Industrial Policy Centre FSAB Research Institute
Key Events
Establishment of the Russian Association of Fertilizer Producers. Dmitry Stepanovich Strezhnev, the then General Director of MCC EuroChem OJSC, was elected President of the RAFP. Igor Isayevich Kaluzhsky was elected its Executive Director.
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2009
The RAFP representatives joined the working group of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation on monitoring the financial and economic state of enterprises amid the crisis. The Association provided up-to-date information on industry enterprises’ state of business and participated in the development of measures to support domestic producers of mineral fertilizers.
As part of support for the RAFP members in the domestic market, the export duty on mineral fertilizers and feedstock was abolished.
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2015
The first changes to GOST-R 2-2013 “Ammonium Nitrate. Specification” were introduced regarding the scope, technical requirements, analysis methods, etc. These amendments are effective from September 1, 2015.
A project to develop the Best Available Technology Reference Document (BREF 2-2015 “Production of Ammonia, Mineral Fertilizers, and Inorganic Acids”) was implemented.
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2016
A project to develop Best Available Technology Reference Documents No. 17 and No. 19 (“Disposal of Production and Consumption Wastes” and “Production of Solid and Other Inorganic Chemicals”) was implemented.
PhosAgro JSC’s General Director Andrey Guryev was elected President of the Russian Association of Fertilizer Producers.
Andrey Guryev, the President of the Russian Association of Fertilizer Producers and the General Director of PhosAgro PJSC, was elected Chairman of the Russia-Argentina Council of Entrepreneurs.
Andrey Guryev was re-elected President of the Russian Association of Fertilizer Producers (RAFP). Maksim Vladimirovich Kuznetsov was appointed Executive Director.
Russia moved into the second place in the world in the production of fertilizers, outdoing the United States. It was made possible by the implementation of state-supported investment programmes.
Andrey Guryev, President of the Russian Association of Fertilizer Producers and General Director of PhosAgro PJSC, was re-elected a member of the Board of Directors of the International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA)** to represent Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
The Association participates in reviewing anti-dumping duties on Russian ammonium nitrate supplied to the EU. As a result, the duty was reduced from €41.42-47.07 per tonne to €32.71 per tonne.
Following the dispute between Russia and Ukraine arising out of anti-dumping measures on imports of ammonium nitrate originating in Russia, the WTO Appellate Body determined that the method of calculating the cost of Russian products used by Ukraine, which took into account not the Russian energy prices but the energy prices of third countries, was unlawful. Ukraine was ordered to cease and desist from breaching its international obligations.
The inclusion of mineral fertilizers and ammonia in the list of products for the purpose of providing state support for companies implementing corporate competitiveness enhancement programmes.
Andrey Guryev, President of the Russian Association of Fertilizer Producers and General Director of PhosAgro PJSC, was unanimously elected Chairman of the Russia-Brazil Business Council. He replaced Vnesheconombank Deputy Chairman Sergey Vasiliev, who had chaired the Council since 2009.
Andrey Guryev, President of the Russian Association of Fertilizer Producers and General Director of PhosAgro PJSC, was elected a member of the Administrative Office of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
Andrey Guryev, President of the Russian Association of Fertilizer Producers and General Director of PhosAgro PJSC, presented the eco-labeling of Russian mineral fertilizers to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Shchekinoazot United Chemical Company joins the Russian Association of Fertilizer Producers.
Ongoing projects:
- Participation in the creation of the “Development of Export-Oriented Production Units to 2024” road map.
- Removal of legislative restrictions on the storage and transshipment of agrochemicals in ports.
- Participation in the review of laws and regulations to improve the conditions for the transportation of mineral fertilizers (tariffs, downtime, moratorium).
- Updating the Best Available Technology Reference Document, BREF No. 2-2015 “Production of Ammonia, Mineral Fertilizers, and Inorganic Acids”.
- Development and preparation for approval of the state standard GOST R “Best Available Technologies. Production of Ammonia, Mineral Fertilizers, and Inorganic Acids. Industrial Environmental Control”.
- Development of the state standard GOST R “Best Available Technologies. Production of Ammonia, Mineral Fertilizers, and Inorganic Acids. The Choice of Pollutant Indicators for Industrial Discharges”.
- Development and state registration of three state standards of the Russian Federation on phosphogypsum.
- Participation in special protective investigations and revision of anti-dumping measures in international markets.
- Formation and promotion of the Association members’ common ideology;.
- Defending the Association members’ position on the pressing issues of the industry development.
- Ensuring the interaction of the Association members with Russian and foreign producers and consumers of fertilizers, representing the Association members’ interests in relations with them.
Working groups:
To date, the RAFP maintains the following working groups:
- on transport and logistics;
- on environmental affairs;
- on anti-fraud;
- on PR;
- on WTO issues and protecting fertilizer producers’ interests in export markets;
- on the possibility of establishing exchange trade in mineral fertilizers;
- on organic farming;
- on ammonium nitrate;
- on administrative barriers relating to the safe handling of mineral fertilizers.