Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B7: Product quality, safety or performance requirements 

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

26. Conditions for importation
(1) Notwithstanding any other enactment and subject to this section, no person shall import any seed intended for cultivation or trade –
(b) unless –
(iv) it is shown to the satisfaction of NPVSO to have been produced under prescribed conditions and to conform to standards equal to, or higher than, those for the production and certification of seed in Mauritius;
(v) the seed complies with such standards of germination, varietal and physical purity and seed health, and such other requirements as NPVSO may determine;
(2) (a) NPVSO shall, in the absence of a seed certification system under the laws of a State of origin of imported seed, undertake tests on the imported seed to verify its compliance with such standards as
NPVSO may determine.
(b) NPVSO shall issue to a seed importer a certificate in respect of such seed and cause such particulars as NPVSO may determine to be entered in the register of seed importers. 

Reference of the measure

Article 26 

Measure also domestic

No 

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