Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

A81: Product registration and approval requirement 

Date when the measure came into force

04 July 1997 

Publication where the measure is specified

THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA Acts Supplement to the Gazette ISSN 0856-0331X 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Plant protection ACt No 13 of 1997 

Country/Region applying the measure

Tanzania 

Coded list of objectives

A: Protection of human life and health and B: Protection of life and health of animals 

Description of the measure

17.-(1) Registration of a plant protection substance may be applied for by:
(a) the producer of the plant protection substance;
(b) the marketing firm, if the plant protection substance is to be marketed for the first time in the country, and;
(c) the importer of that plant protection substance.
(2) Subject to the regulations provided under sections 16 and 42 of this Act, the application for plant protection substance shall contain:
(a) the name and address of the applicant;
(b) the designation of the plant protection substance;
(c) details of its composition, particularly the nature and quantity of its ingredients, using the commonly employed scientific nomenclature;
(d) details of the field of its application;
(e) details on its possible dangers to human and animals health and the natural environment;
(f) details of procedures for its proper disposal or neutralization;
(g) a draft of the instructions for use;
(h) the text of indications and markings intended for the containers and outer packaging or for the literature accompanying such packaging;
(i) details of the nature of the packaging materials; and,
(k) information on suitable analysis procedures which can be carried out using commonly employed equipment at a reasonable cost and which can be used to reliably determine the residue left after the application of the plant protection substance, including degradation and reaction products which may be dangerous to the health of human, animals and the natural environment.
18.-(1)The Minister shall register the plant protection substance if the application procedures under section 17 of this Act have been complied with and after the analysis of the plant protection substance show that:
(a) the plant protection substance is sufficiently effective according to the currently available scientific knowledge and techniques;
(b) the precautions necessary for the protection of human and animal health and environment in dealing with such plant protection substance do not require otherwise, and;
(c) the plant protection substance when used for its intended purposes and in the correct manner, or as a result of such use, does not have any harmful effects on human and animal health, ground water and the natural environment which are not justifiable in the light of the present state of scientific knowledge.
(2) The Minister may, by a notice published in the Gazette amend or supplement conditions set out in sub-section (1) of this section at a later date when he deems necessary to do so.
(3) The period for which the registration of any plant protection substance made under this section shall remain valid, shall not exceed ten years.
(4) The Minister may, for good cause, and after giving the person on whose application a plant protection substance was registered an opportunity to show cause why the registration of that plant protection substance shall not be cancelled, cancel the registration of plant protection substance;
(5) The Minister shall publish in the Gazette, a list of any plant protection substance registered and, shall from time to time amend the list to delete from that list any plant protection substance the registration of which has been cancelled or whose term of registration has expired.
(6) Any person who, makes or causes to be made, either orally or in writing, any declaration or representation which he knows or has reasons to know to be false for purposes of obtaining registration of a plant protection substance shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of not less than ten million shillings but not exceeding one hundred million shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both such fine and imprisonment. 

Reference of the measure

Part III section 17 & 18 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Plants and plant products 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.