TPKM/427
WTO/SPS
TW Taiwan
  • 01 - Live animals
2017-05-02
2017-03-13
Live fish, their gametes and fertilized eggs
Quarantine Requirements for the Importation of Live Fish and Their Gametes and Fertilized Eggs

The Requirements regulate the importation of live fish, their gametes and fertilized eggs. The main points of the amendments include:

1.  For consignments granted importing approval by the competent authority of aquaculture as part of its national genetic renewal project or for specific research purposes, post-entry quarantine and testing may be the alternatives to the requirement of being accompanied by an original health certificate issued by the exporting country attesting to the health status of the consignments;

2.  The deletion of one fish species from the designated quarantine items and the addition of 10 fish species into the designated quarantine items in order to conform to the latest version of the OIE Aquatic Animal Health Code and the Manual of Diagnostic Tests for Aquatic Animals.