Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

A14: Authorization requirement for sanitary and phytosanitary reasons for importing certain products 

Date when the measure came into force

01 January 1959 

Publication where the measure is specified

Plant Pests and Diseases Act. 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Plant Pests and Diseases (Importation) Regulations. 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zambia 

Coded list of objectives

A: Protection of human life and health and C: Protection of life and health of plants 

Description of the measure

4. (1) Save as is provided in regulation 8, no person shall import any growing medium or plant, including any unmanufactured plant product specified in the Fourth Schedule or seed specified in the Fifth Schedule, unless a permit authorising the importation of that growing medium or plant is submitted.
5. (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-regulation (2), no person shall import an invertebrate, the importation of which is not governed by the provisions of another law, unless a permit authorising the importation of that invertebrate is submitted.
5. 2) No person shall import an injurious organism unless-
(b) a permit authorising the importation of that injurious organism is submitted.
6. Application for a permit to import a growing medium, injurious organism, invertebrate or plant shall be made to the Permanent Secretary and, if the Permanent Secretary so requires, shall be made in Form No. 1.
7. (1) A permit authorising the importation of a growing medium, injurious organism, invertebrate or plant shall be issued by the Permanent Secretary in Form No. 2.
14. (1) No person shall import-
(c) any plant specified in the Sixth Schedule; without the consent in writing of the Minister. 

Reference of the measure

SECTION 31
Regulations 4(1); 5(1, 2b) ; 6; 7(1) ; and 14(1c)
Fourth Schedule
Fifth Schedule
Application Form No. 1.
Form No. 2
Sixth Schedule 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Growing medium or plant; unmanufactured plant product; seed
Invertebrate
injurious organism 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.