Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B15: Authorization requirements for importers 

Date when the measure came into force

28 September 1998 

Publication where the measure is specified

Government Gazette No. 19292 of 28 September 1998 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Animal Improvement Act, 1998 (Act 62 of 1998) 

Country/Region applying the measure

South Africa 

The rationale of the measure

None specified 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

7 Requirements for registration or approval
(2) An import agent may be registered as such if he or she undertakes in writing to the registrar to make use of a customs clearing facility and laboratory conforming to the prescribed requirements for all genetic material imported by him or her on behalf of another person.
8 Registration or approval
(1) Any person who-
(a) desires to be registered as a semen collector, inseminator, embryo collector, embryo transferor or import agent; or
(b) desires-
(i) that premises be registered as a centre; or
(ii) that an animal be approved as a donor animal of genetic material, shall apply to the registrar in the form determined by the registrar and in the prescribed manner, and such application shall be accompanied by the prescribed application fee for the kind of registration or approval concerned. 

Reference of the measure

Articles 7 & 8 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Semen, embryo, genetic material where ‘‘genetic material’’ means ova, embryos, semen and any other material
originating from an animal through which the hereditary factors of such animal can be transferred; 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Entire world