Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B11: Prohibition for TBT reasons 

Date when the measure came into force

25 May 1984 

Publication where the measure is specified

Government Gazette of 25 May 1984 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Conservation of Agricultural Resources Act Regulations 

Country/Region applying the measure

South Africa 

The rationale of the measure

None specified 

Coded list of objectives

C: Protection of life and health of plants and E: Protection of the environment 

Description of the measure

15. Declaration of weeds and invader plants.—(1) Plants of the kinds specified in column 1 of Table 3 as category 1 plants are hereby declared weeds to the extent indicated in column 3 of the said Table opposite the names of the respective kinds of plants.
15A. Combating of category 1 plants.—(1) Category 1 plants may not occur on any land or inland water surface other than in biological control reserves.
(2) A land user shall control any category 1 plants that occur on any land or inland water surface in contravention of the provisions of sub-regulation (1) by means of the methods prescribed in regulation 15E.
(3) No person shall, except in or for purposes of a biological control reserve—
(a)establish, plant, maintain, multiply or propagate category 1 plants;
(b) import or sell propagating material of category 1 plants or any category 1 plants;
15C. Combating of category 3 plants
(4) No person shall, except in or for purposes of a biological control reserve—
(a) plant, establish, maintain, multiply or propagate category 3 plants;
(b) import or sell propagating material of category 3 plants or any category 3 plants; 

Reference of the measure

Article 15, 15A, 15C 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Butterfly orchid tree
Orchid tree
Chandelier plant
Mauritius thorn
Pom-pom weed
Indian shot
Balloon vine
Beefwood
Horsetail tree
Queen of the night
Yellow or Orange cestrum
Crimson cestrum
Inkberry
Chilean cestrum
Triffid weed, Chromolaena
Camphor tree
Spear thistle, Scotch thistle
Field bindweed, Wild morning-glory
Pampas grass
Pampas grass
Cotoneaster
Silver-leaf cotoneaster
Common dodder
Lucerne dodder
Montpellier broom
Scotch broom
Large thorn apple
Downy thorn apple
Common thorn apple
Torch cactus
Patterson’s curse
Blue echium
Dense water weed
Water hyacinth
Canadian water weed
Loquat
Red river gum
Sugar gum
Karri
Saligna gum,
Rose gum
Spider gum
Grey ironbark
Black ironbark,
Red ironbark
Pitanga,
Surinam cherry
Honey locust, Sweet locust
Australian silky oak
Sweet hakea
Rock hakea
Silky hakea
Moon cactus, Harrisia cactus
Red ginger lily
White ginger lily
Yellow ginger lily
Kahili ginger lily
St John’s wort,
Tipton weed
Moonflower
Morning glory
Morning glory
Jacaranda
Lantana, Tickberry, Cherry pie
Pepper-cress, Hoary cardaria, White top
Australian myrtle
Leucaena
Japanese wax-leaved privet
Chinese wax-leaved privet
Californian privet
Chinese privet
Common privet
St Joseph’s lily, Trumpet lily, Formosa lily
Indian laurel
Purple loosestrife
Cat’s paw creeper
“Syringa”, Persian lilac
New Zealand christmas tree
Giant sensitive plant
Tree daisy
White mulberry, Common mulberry
Manatoka
Parrot’s feather
Spiked water-milfoil
White tussock
Sword fern
Oleander
Wild tobacco
Jointed cactus
Long spine cactus
Mission prickly pear, Sweet prickly pear
Rosea cactus
Creeping prickly pear
Imbricate cactus, Imbricate prickly pear
Small round-leaved prickly pear
Cochineal prickly pear, Drooping prickly pear
Saucepan cactus, Large round-leaved prickly pear
Pest pear of Australia
Lesser broomrape, Clover broomrape
Australian albizia, Stink bean
Parthenium
Blue passion flower
Banana poka, Bananadilla
Devil’s pumpkin, Indigo berry
Granadina
Fountain grass
Feathertop
Barbados gooseberry
Belhambra
Canary den
Slash pine
Aleppo pine
Patula pine
Cluster pine
Radiata pine, Moneterey pine
Chir pine, longifolia pine
Loblolly pine
Water lettuce
Australian cheesewood, Sweet pittospormum
‘Abyssinian’ coleus, Woolly plectranthus
Pickerel wood
White poplar
Strawberry guava
Guava
Brazilian guava
Durban guava
Kudzu vine
Yellow firethorn
Himalayan firethorn
Wax tree
Castor-oil plant
Rivina, Bloodberry 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

Entire world