Non-Tariff Barriers

NTM classification: A33: Packaging requirements
Date when the measure came into force: 03 September 1993
Publication where the measure is specified: Laws of Botswana Chapter 65:05 Food Control
Regulation where the measure is specified: Food Control Act
Country/Region applying the measure: Botswana
The rationale of the measure: No specific objective stated
Coded list of objectives: A: Protection of human life and health and X: For purposes n.e.s.
Description of the measure: 12(6) A package intended or customarily considered suitable to hold food shall be used for no other purpose, and a package not intended to, or not customarily considered suitable to hold food, shall not be used to hold food, and any person who uses a package in contravention of the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of an offence
Reference of the measure: Sub-article 12(6)
Measure also domestic: Yes

Code	Product	Partial coverage	Partial coverage indication	Date in	Date out
PG: 7	Food products	No

Inclusion/Exclusion	Country	Date in	Date out
Inclusion	Entire world

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