Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B14: Authorization requirements for importing certain products 

Date when the measure came into force

14 May 2012 

Publication where the measure is specified

Government Gazette Notice ,14 May 2012 

Regulation where the measure is specified

BIODIVERSITY ACT, 2004 (ACT NO. 10 OF 2004) PROHIBITION OF TRADE IN CERTAIN ENCEPHALARTOS (CYCAD) SPECIES 

Country/Region applying the measure

South Africa 

Coded list of objectives

E: Protection of the environment 

Description of the measure

2. PROHIBITIONS
(1) The following restricted activities involving wild specimens of listed
threatened or protected Encephalartos species, unless if required for conservation or enforcement purposes:
(a) Collect, pluck, uproot, destroy;
(b) Export from the Republic of South Africa , sell , trade, buy;
(c) Receive, give, donate, accept, acquire, dispose;
(d) Import into the Republic of South Africa, convey, move, translocate; or
(e) Possess, exercise physical control (except where permits have been issued, prior to the publication of this notice, for plants that form part of legally obtained parental stock).
(2) The following restricted activities involving artificially propagated specimens of listed threatened or protected Encephalartos species:
(i) The export from the Republic of South Africa of specimens with a stem diameter of more than 15cm, except for the following dwarf species which cannot be exported if the stem diameter is more than 7cm:
E. caffer, E. humilis, E. cupidus, E. cerinus and E. ngoyanus 

Reference of the measure

Section 2 (1)(e) 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Encephalartos species 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries