TPKM/471
WTO/SPS
TW Taiwan
  • 65 - Landwirtschaft
2018-11-30
2018-10-02

Plants, plant products and any other regulated articles

Summary draft amendment of the "Enforcement Rules of Plant Protection and Quarantine Act"

The "Enforcement Rules of Plant Protection and Quarantine Act" (hereinafter referred to as the Enforcement Rules) is authorized by Article 27 of the Plant Protection and Quarantine Act (hereinafter referred to as the Act). In accordance with the amendment of the Act on 20 June 2018, nine articles are revised or removed.

The contents of the revised or removed articles are as follows:

1.      In accordance with amendment of Article 19 of the Act, we amended the authorization basis of Article 5 of the Enforcement Rules.

2.      Articles 10 to 13 were deleted since they had been included in other regulations authorized by paragraph 4 of Article 14 of the Act. In addition, Articles 14 and 20 were also deleted since they had been moved to the Act.

3.      In order to enhance the personnel safety during border inspection, we amended Article 15 and the inspection shall be conducted in centralized inspection areas, warehouse, or other safe areas recognized by the plant quarantine authority. Article 17 was amended and border quarantine inspection can be done using sample batch inspection.