Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B82: Testing requirement 

Date when the measure came into force

07 June 2013 

Publication where the measure is specified

Legal Supplement to the Government Gazette of Mauritius No. 51 of 8 June 2013 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Seed Act 2013 

Country/Region applying the measure

Mauritius 

The rationale of the measure

To regulate the cultivation, production, trade, importation and exportation of seed, and for related matters 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

15. Testing of seed
(1) Any person who, having produced or acquired any seed which has not been tested pursuant to this Part or under section 28, intends to sell the seed for the purposes of cultivation, shall cause a sample of the seed to be delivered to NPVSO for testing.
27. Test of imported seed
(1) Notwithstanding any other enactment and subject to subsection (3), on importation of any seed, a seed importer to whom the seed was consigned shall, within 30 days of its delivery to him, cause a sample of the seed to be delivered to NPVSO for testing.
(2) Any imported seed shall not be sold or otherwise disposed of by any person before the receipt by the seed importer of a report on such test from NPVSO confirming that the seed conforms to such standards of germination, varietal and physical purity and seed health and such other requirements as NPVSO may determine. 

Reference of the measure

Articles 15 and 27 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Seeds - which mean the whole or any part of a plant capable of regeneration and giving rise to a plant which is true to such type 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Entire world