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
Chapter III Exit Quarantine
Article 20 The owner, or his or her agent, of exit animals and plants,
their products or other quarantine objects shall, before their exit,
submit an application for quarantine inspection to the port animal and
plant quarantine office.
The animals that need to be placed in isolation for quarantine inspection
before exit shall be quarantined in an isolation court designated by the
port animal and plant quarantine office.
Article 21 Export animals and plants, their products or other quarantine
objects shall be quarantined by the port animal and plant quarantine
office, and those that pass the quarantine inspection or conform to the
standards after a treatment of disinfection and disinfestation are
allowed to leave 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. Those that fail in the quarantine
inspection and are unable to be treated by disinfection and
disinfestation with effective methods shall not be allowed to leave the
country.
Article 22 Where the animals and plants, their products or other
quarantine objects that pass the quarantine inspection are involved in
any of the following circumstances, the owner or his or her agent shall
re-apply for quarantine inspection:
(1) Where the importing country or region is changed, and the changed
importing country or region has different requirements for quarantine
inspection;
(2) Where the packings are changed or the unpacked products or objects
are subsequently packed;
(3) Where the stipulated valid period of quarantine is exceeded.
Chapter IV Transit Quarantine
Article 23 Whoever requests a transit of animals through the Chinese
territory must obtain in advance and through consultation the consent of
China's State animal and plant quarantine department and the transit must
be conducted through the designated port and route.
The means of transport, containers, feeding stuffs and bedding materials
for the animals in transit must all conform to China's regulations on
animal and plant quarantine.
Article 24 The transit of animals and plants, their products or other
quarantine objects requires the consignor or the escort to submit at the
port of entry the bills of lading and the quarantine certificates issued
by the animal and plant quarantine department under the government of the
exporting country or region to the port animal and plant quarantine
office for quarantine inspection. No further quarantine inspection is
needed at the port of exit.
Article 25 The transit animals that pass the quarantine inspection are
allowed to pass through the country; and in case any infectious or
parasitic disease of animals specified in the catalogues as stipulated in
Article 18 of this Law is discovered, the entire flock of the animals
shall not be allowed to transit.
The transit animals' feeding stuffs that are contaminated with diseases,
insect pests or harmful organisms shall be subjected to such treatments
as disinfection and disinfestation, denial of transit or destruction.
The carcasses, excrements, bedding materials and other wastes of the
transit animals must be disposed of in accordance with the regulations of
the animal and plant quarantine department, and may not be cast away
without authorization.
Article 26 The port animal and plant quarantine office shall examine the
means of transport and the packings, in respect of the transit plants,
animal and plant products or other quarantine objects, which are allowed
to transit through the country if they pass the quarantine inspection; in
case any disease, insect pest or harmful organism specified in the
catalogues as stipulated in Article 18 of this Law is discovered, it
shall be subjected to a treatment of disinfection and disinfestation or
denial of transit.
Article 27 Animals and plants, their products or other quarantine
objects, in the course of their transit, may not be unpacked or
discharged from the means of transport without the approval of the animal
and plant quarantine organ.
Chapter V Quarantine of Materials Carried by Passengers or by Post
Article 28 Whoever intends to carry or post plant seeds, seedlings or
other propagating materials into the country must submit an application
in advance and go through the formalities for examination and approval of
quarantine inspection.
Article 29 The catalogues of the animals and plants, their products and
other quarantine objects that are not allowed to be carried or posted
into the country shall be worked out and announced by the department of
agriculture administration under the State Council.
In case any animals or plants, animal or plant products or other
quarantine objects specified in the catalogues mentioned in the preceding
paragraph are carried or posted into the country, they shall either be
returned or destroyed.
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