Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B84: Inspection requirement 

Date when the measure came into force

29 September 2006 

Publication where the measure is specified

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29September 2006 

Regulation where the measure is specified

FERTILIZER, FARM FEEDS, AGRICULTURAL REMEDIES AND STOCK REMEDIES ACT, 1947 (ACT No. 36 OF 1947) REGULATIONSREGARDING STOCK REMEDIES 

Country/Region applying the measure

South Africa 

Coded list of objectives

C: Protection of life and health of plants 

Description of the measure

Sampling of stock remedies
18. (1) A stock remedy which is sold in containers shall be sampled by selecting at different places from the stock of a particular stock remedy the number of containers required to obtain a statistically significant quantity for a sample of such a stock remedy:
(a) Such containers shall be similarly labelled and the stock remedy therein shall originate from the same batch.
(b) If a sample is composed of the contents of more than one container, such a sample shall be thoroughly mixed before being divided in terms of section
(c) of the Act.
(c) Despite the provisions of sub regulation at least three sealed containers in which a stock remedy is sold, may also be taken as the sample of such stock
Remedy and the containers comprising such sample shall, without being opened, be divided in terms of section of the Act.
(2) A stock remedy which is not sold in a container shall be sampled by taking small quantities at different places from the stock of such stock remedy to obtain a sufficient quantity fora sample. Such a sample shall be thoroughly mixed before being divided in terms of section (c)of the Act.
(3)The provisions of sub regulation (2) shall mutatis mutandis apply to the sampling of a stock remedy referred to in sub regulation (I)prior to the packing thereof in containers,and the sampling of an active ingredient used in the manufacture of a stock remedy.
(4) Where a stock remedy in a container is of a perishable nature, or where for any reason the opening of the container would interfere with the analysis of the remedy unless such analysis were effected at the time of opening or immediately thereafter, at least three containers, similarly labelled and purporting to contain a similar stock remedy, shall be procured. The containers thus procured shall be split up into three groups, each of which shall contain one or more unopened containers and which shall Further be dealt with as prescribed by section of the Act.
(5) A certificate which in terms of section (b) of the Act is forwarded to an analyst together with a sample of the stock remedy,shall be in the prescribed form.Annexure F.
(6) A certificate on which the result of a test, examination or analysis of a sample of a stock remedy is to be recorded in terms of section (b)of the Act, shall be in a prescribed form. Annexure G.
(7) That part of a sample of a stock remedy which is referred to in section (c) of the Act:
(a) shall, if a certificate referred to in sub regulation (5) indicates that such sample does not possess the chemical, physical or other properties specified into he
application for registration of the stock remedy concerned, or does not comply with any requirements referred to in these regulations,be retained until the action arising from such certificate is concluded;
(b) may otherwise be destroyed. 

Reference of the measure

Part V section 18 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

stock remedies 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries