Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

P13: Production and post-production requirements to export 

Date when the measure came into force

24 December 1965 

Publication where the measure is specified

Laws of Botswana Chapter 74:04 Meat Commission 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Botswana Meat Commission Act 

Country/Region applying the measure

Botswana 

The rationale of the measure

To provide for the establishment of a commission to be known as the Botswana Meat Commission,to impose certain duties aand confer certain powers on the said commission,to vest in the said commission certain assets and liabilities. 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

21. Control of export of cattle and the licensing of export slaughter-houses
(1) No person other than the Commission shall export cattle or edible products from cattle from Botswana unless he is in possession of a permit in writing to do so issued by the Minister under this section.
(2) No such permit shall be issued without the concurrence of the Commission or unless the Minister declares by order published in the Gazette that by reason of exceptional circumstances it is in his opinion clearly in the public interest to issue such permit without the concurrence of the Commission. 

Reference of the measure

Sub-articles 21(1) and 21(2) 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Cattle and edible products from cattle 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Entire world