Plant Quarantine
BIZCHINA / Customs
Law of the People's Republic of China on the Entry and Exit Animal and
Plant Quarantine
Updated: 2006-04-18 10:54
Article 11 Whoever imports animals and plants, their products or other
quarantine objects through trade, scientific and technological
cooperation, exchanges, donations or aid shall specify in the contracts
or agreements the requirements for quarantine inspection prescribed by
China's law and the necessity of quarantine certificates issued by the
animal and plant quarantine department under the government of the
exporting country or region being appended therewith.
Article 12 The owner or his or her agent shall apply to the port animal
and plant quarantine office at the port of entry for quarantine
inspection of the animals and plants, their products or other quarantine
objects, before or on their entry, on the strength of documents such as
the quarantine certificates issued by the exporting country or region and
the trade contracts.
Article 13 On arrival at a port of a means of transport for carrying
animals, the port animal and plant quarantine office shall for the
prevention of epidemics adopt onthespot preventive measures and conduct
disinfection of persons embarking on or disembarking from the means of
transport or having contacts with the animals, the means of transport for
carrying the animals and the contaminated fields.
Article 14 Import animals and plants, their products and other
quarantine objects shall be quarantined at the port of entry; without
consent of the port animal and plant quarantine office, the same shall
not be unloaded from the means of transport.
The import animals and plants that need to be placed in isolation for
quarantine inspection shall be quarantined in an isolation court
designated by the port animal and plant quarantine office.
By reason of limited conditions at the port of entry, the State animal
and plant quarantine department may decide to have the animals and
plants, their products or other quarantine objects transported to a
designated place for quarantine inspection. In the course of
transportation, loading and unloading, the owner or his or her agent
shall take preventive measures against epidemics. Designated places for
storage, processing, isolated feeding or planting shall conform to the
provisions on animal and plant quarantine and epidemic prevention.
Article 15 The import animals and plants, their products or other
quarantine objects that pass the quarantine inspection are allowed to
enter the country; the Customs shall, after verification, release the
same on the strength of the quarantine certificates issued, or the stamps
on the customs declaration forms affixed, by the port animal and plant
quarantine office.
In respect of the import animals and plants, their products or other
quarantine objects that need to be transferred away from a customs
surveillance zone for quarantine inspection, the Customs shall, after
verification, release the same on the strength of the Quarantine
Transference Notice issued by the port animal and plant quarantine office.
Article 16 In respect of the import animals that fail in the quarantine
inspection, the port animal and plant quarantine office shall issue the
Quarantine Treatment Notice notifying the owner or his or her agent to
deal with the said animals in either of the following manners:
(1) The animals that are found suffering from Class A infectious or
parasitic diseases, shall, together with all the other in-contact
animals, be returned or slaughtered with their carcasses destroyed; or
(2) The animals that are found suffering from Class B infectious or
parasitic diseases shall be returned or slaughtered; and the other
incontact animals shall be placed in an isolation camp or any other
designated place for observation.
In respect of import animal products or other quarantine objects that
fail in the quarantine inspection, the port animal and plant quarantine
office shall issue the Quarantine Treatment Notice notifying the owner or
his or her agent to conduct such treatments as disinfection and
disinfestation, returning or destruction. The products or objects that
pass the quarantine inspection after a treatment of disinfection and
disinfestation are allowed to enter the country.
Article 17 On discovering through quarantine inspection that import
plants, plant products or other quarantine objects are contaminated with
diseases, pests or weeds dangerous to plants, the port animal and plant
quarantine office shall issue the Quarantine Treatment Notice notifying
the owner or his or her agent to conduct such treatments as disinfection
and disinfestation, returning or destruction. Those that pass the
quarantine inspection after a treatment of disinfection and
disinfestation are allowed to enter the country.
Article 18 The catalogues of the Class A and Class B infectious or
parasitic diseases of animals specified in Article 16, paragraph 1, Items
1 and 2 of this Law and the catalogues of the diseases, pests or weeds
dangerous to plants specified in Article 17 of this Law shall be worked
out and announced by the department of agriculture administration under
the State Council.
Article 19 On discovering through quarantine inspection that import
animals and plants, their products or other quarantine objects are
contaminated with diseases, insect pests or harmful organisms which are
not covered by the catalogues specified in Article 18 of this Law but are
extremely harmful to agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery,
the port animal and plant quarantine office shall, in accordance with
relevant regulations of the department of agriculture administration
under the State Council, notify the owner or his or her agent to conduct
such treatments as disinfection and disinfestation, returning or
destruction. Those that pass the quarantine inspection after a treatment
of disinfection and disinfestation are allowed to enter the country.
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