Non-profit organizationRussian Fertilizers Producers Association
Russian FertilizersProducers Association
About the Association
The Russian Fertilizers Producers Association (RFPA) is a sectoral non-profit organization established in 2008 by Russia’s leading producers of mineral fertilizers.
Maksim Vladimirovich Kuznetsov
RFPA Executive DirectorFounders:
Members on 2022:
| Acron PJSC (since 2008) |
Ammonium JSC (since 2016) |
| Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat LLC (since 2008) |
Hydrometallurgical Plant OJSC (since 2014) |
| MCC EuroChem JSC (since 2008) |
KuybyshevAzot PJSC (since 2008) |
| Azot KJSC (since 2008) |
Mendeleevskazot LLC (since 2008) |
| Minudobrenia JSC (since 2008) |
Tolyattiazot PJSC (since 2012) |
| Apatit JSC (since 2008) |
Shchekinoazot OJSC (since 2020) |
The RFPA Business Profile:
- Forming and implementing Association members’ common position on the pressing issues of the industry’s development.
- Liaising with government authorities in the interests of the Association members, including on the subject of establishing agricultural development programmes and regarding 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
The Russian Fertilizers Producers Association is established. Dmitry Strezhnev, then General Director of MCC EuroChem OJSC, is elected President of the RFPA. Igor Kaluzhsky is elected its Executive Director.
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2009
RFPA representatives join 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 global financial crisis. The Association provides up-to-date information on industry enterprises’ state of business and participates in the development of measures to support domestic producers of mineral fertilizers.
As part of the support package for RFPA members in the domestic market, the export duty on mineral fertilizers and feedstock is abolished.
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2015
The first changes to the standard GOST-R 2-2013 “Ammonium Nitrate. Specification” are introduced regarding the scope, technical requirements, analysis methods, etc. These amendments came into effect on 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”) is implemented
PhosAgro JSC’s CEO Andrey Guryev is elected President of the Russian Fertilizers Producers Association.
Andrey Guryev, the President of the Russian Fertilizers Producers Association and the CEO of PhosAgro PJSC, is elected Chairman of the Russia-Argentina Council of Entrepreneurs.
Andrey Guryev is re-elected President of the Russian Fertilizers Producers Association (RFPA). Maksim Kuznetsov is appointed its Executive Director.
Russia becomes the second biggest producer of fertilizers in the world, overtaking the United States. It was made possible by the implementation of state-supported investment programmes.
Andrey Guryev, the President of the Russian Fertilizers Producers Association and the CEO of PhosAgro PJSC, is re-elected as 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 gets 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 from Russia, the WTO Appellate Body determines 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, is unlawful. Ukraine is ordered to cease and desist from breaching its international obligations.
Mineral fertilizers and ammonia are included in the list of products eligible for state support when implementing corporate competitiveness enhancement programmes.
Andrey Guryev, the President of the Russian Fertilizers Producers Association and the CEO of PhosAgro PJSC, is unanimously elected Chairman of the Russia-Brazil Business Council. He replaces Vnesheconombank Deputy Chairman Sergey Vasiliev, who chaired the Council since 2009.
Andrey Guryev, the President of the Russian Fertilizers Producers Association and the CEO of PhosAgro PJSC, is elected to become a member of the Bureau of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
Andrey Guryev, the President of the Russian Fertilizers Producers Association and the CEO of PhosAgro PJSC, presents a project to eco-label 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’s 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.