Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

A83: Certification requirement 

Date when the measure came into force

05 December 2002 

Publication where the measure is specified

Diploma Ministerial n.° 219/2002, de 5 de Dezembro 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Regulation on Livestock Health 

Country/Region applying the measure

Mozambique 

The rationale of the measure

1. Protect public health through disease surveillance and control.
2. To protect the national and export market of animals and products of animal origin through the surveillance and control of animal diseases.
3. To serve as the basis for carrying out the vigilance and eradication of diseases of great economic and/or public health importance.
4. Serve as a basis for compensation for losses caused by animal diseases. 

Coded list of objectives

B: Protection of life and health of animals 

Description of the measure

Article 10
1: Animals, their products, by-products, offal, fodder and organic products shall not be permitted to enter or leave the country without being accompanied by the respective license and the veterinary certificate issued by the Veterinary Authority.
2. The issuance of the license referred to in number one of this article shall be made at the request of the interested party, prepared in an appropriate form, to the Entity or Service with competence for that purpose and stating:
(a) the name and address of the applicant;
(b) Species, age, sex and race of the animal;
(c) Country of origin, owner or manufacturer;
(d) Type of products;
(e) Quantity;
(f) Entrance or exit door;
(g) Transport to be used;
(h) Destination;
(i) Purpose.
3. The license application must be submitted before order confirmation so that the commitments can be canceled if the license is not granted.
Article 23
1. The entry into the Country of any animal, its products, by-products, offal, fodder, biological products, which are not accompanied by the import license issued by the Veterinary Authority.
2. The international veterinary certificate issued by the Veterinary Authority of the exporting country shall be completed in accordance with the requirements of the import permit.
3. The customs authorities may not proceed with the dispatch of animals, their products, by-products, offal, fodder or biological products, without the documentation required by paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article being present.
4. Anything found in contravention of the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article, is seized and lost in favor of the State.
5. Imports of animals, products, by-products, offal and fodder shall be prohibited if the importer believes that they are infected by a notifiable disease agent in the list of diseases A and B of the OIE, new disease or disease unknown.
Article 32
1. The importation of biological products, pathogens and pathological material, animal, product or by-product of animal origin or other pathogenic organism requires special authorization in accordance with the rules specified in the relevant import license.
2. The Veterinary and Customs Authorities shall be under strict control of the requirements of paragraph 1 of this Article.
3. Applications for import licenses for the products referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall indicate, in addition to that determined in Article 23 (1) of this Regulation, the following:
(a) type of product and its packaging;
(b) Indication of quantity and special marks;
(c) Date of dispatch.
4. Biological and pathological products considered infectious only when they are packaged in such a way as to avoid any possibility of external contamination. These products must be packed in accordance with the procedures established by the World Health Organization for the safe transport of infectious substances and diagnostic specimens and comply with the International Civil Aviation Organization's packing instructions (PI) No. 602 and 605 (ICAO) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
5. The biological and pathological products referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be taken immediately after arrival to the place of destination by qualified personnel as specified in the import permit and without being otherwise exposed to the environment. 

Reference of the measure

Articles 10, 23 and 32 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Notes

O.I.E.: Office International des Epizooties
O.I.E. Lists A and B of Animal Diseases
Multiple species diseases
• Anthrax
• Aujeszky's disease
• Bluetongue
• Brucellosis (Brucella abortus)
• Brucellosis (Brucella melitensis)
• Brucellosis (Brucella suis)
• Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever
• Echinococcosis/hydatidosis
• Foot and mouth disease
• Heartwater
• Japanese encephalitis
• Leptospirosis
• New world screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax)
• Old world screwworm (Chrysomya bezziana)
• Paratuberculosis
• Q fever
• Rabies
• Rift Valley fever
• Rinderpest
• Trichinellosis
• Tularemia
• Vesicular stomatitis
• West Nile fever
Cattle diseases
• Bovine anaplasmosis
• Bovine babesiosis
• Bovine genital campylobacteriosis
• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
• Bovine tuberculosis
• Bovine viral diarrhoea
• Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
• Enzootic bovine leukosis
• Haemorrhagic septicaemia
• Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/infectious pustular vulvovaginitis
• Lumpky skin disease
• Malignant catarrhal fever
• Theileriosis
• Trichomonosis
• Trypanosomosis (tsetse-transmitted)
Sheep and goat diseases
• Caprine arthritis/encephalitis
• Contagious agalactia
• Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
• Enzootic abortion of ewes (ovine chlamydiosis)
• Maedi-visna
• Nairobi sheep disease
• Ovine epididymitis (Brucella ovis)
• Peste des petits ruminants
• Salmonellosis (S. abortusovis)
• Scrapie
• Sheep pox and goat pox
Equine diseases
• African horse sickness
• Contagious equine metritis
• Dourine
• Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern)
• Equine encephalomyelitis (Western)
• Equine infectious anaemia
• Equine influenza
• Equine piroplasmosis
• Equine rhinopneumonitis
• Equine viral arteritis
• Glanders
• Surra (Trypanosoma evansi)
• Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis
Swine diseases
• African swine fever
• Classical swine fever
• Nipah virus encephalitis
• Porcine cysticercosis
• Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
• Swine vesicular disease
• Transmissible gastroenteritis
Avian diseases
• Avian chlamydiosis
• Avian infectious bronchitis
• Avian infectious laryngotracheitis
• Avian mycoplasmosis (M. gallisepticum)
• Avian mycoplasmosis (M. synoviae)
• Duck virus hepatitis
• Fowl cholera
• Fowl typhoid
• Highly pathogenic avian influenza and low pathogenic avian influenza in poultry
• Infectious bursal disease (Gumboro disease)
• Marek's disease
• Newcastle disease
• Pullorum disease
• Turkey rhinotracheitis
Lagomorph diseases
• Myxomatosis
• Rabbit haemorrhagic disease
Bee diseases
• Acarapisosis of honey bees
• American foulbrood of honey bees
• European foulbrood of honey bees
• Small hive beetle infestation (Aethina tumida)
• Tropilaelaps infestation of honey bees
• Varroosis of honey bees 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Animals
Animal products 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.