Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

P13: Production and post-production requirements to export 

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

17 Exportation of animals and genetic material of landrace
(1) No person shall export from the Republic an animal or genetic material of a landrace unless such exportation has been authorised by the registrar in writing. 

Reference of the measure

Article 17 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Animal and genetic material of a landrace where ‘‘landrace’’ means a specified breed of a kind of animal indigenous to or developed in the Republic 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Entire world