Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B11: Prohibition for TBT reasons 

Date when the measure came into force

01 January 2016 

Publication where the measure is specified

Statutory Instrument 131 of 2016 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Environmental Management (Prohibition and Control of Ozone Depleting Substances, Greenhouse Gases, Ozone Depleting Substances and Greenhouse Gases Dependent Equipment) Regulations, 2016 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zimbabwe 

The rationale of the measure

These regulations shall apply to private and public industrial and commercial importers, exporters, producers and consumers of ozone depleting substances and greenhouse gases listed in the Second, Third and Fourth Schedules and ozone depleting substance and greenhouse gas dependent equipment listed in the Fifth Schedule. 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

4(1) No person shall import into Zimbabwe, any substances listed and equipment or appliance which uses or whose function relies on the substances listed in the Second Schedule.
(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level fourteen or imprisonment for a period not exceeding twelve months or both such fine and such imprisonment.
(3)In addition, the court convicting a person of an offence under subsection (1), may, upon the application of the Prosecutor, declare any ODS, GHG, GHG dependent equipment or ODS dependent equipment in respect of which the offence has been committed to be forfeited to the State.
(4)Any ozone depleting substance and ozone depleting substance dependent equipment forfeited in terms of subsection (3) shall be destroyed or otherwise dealt with as the Secretary for Environment, Water and Climate may direct.
(5)The court convicting a person of an offence under subsection (1) shall cancel any license issued to such a person. 

Reference of the measure

Article 4(1) 

Measure also domestic

No 

Notes

Implementation date not stated in the document. The date above was arbitrarily entered to allow registration of NTM. It will be adjusted when the date is made available by the NTM manager. 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Chemical Name & Formula; Trichlorofluoromethane CFCl3; Dichlorodifluoromethane CF2Cl2 ; Chlorotrifuoromethane CF3Cl ; Pentachlorofluoroethane C2FCl5 ; Tetrachlorodifluoroethane C2F2Cl4 ; Trichlorotrifluoroethane C2F3Cl3; Dichlorotetrafluoroethane C2F4Cl2 ; Chloropentafluoroethane CClF2CF3 ; Heptachlorofluoropropane C3FCl7 ; Hexachlorodifluoropropane C3F2Cl6 ; Pentachlorotrifluoropropane C3F3Cl5 ; Tetrachlorotetrafluoropropane C3F4Cl4 ; Trichloropentafluoropropane C3F5Cl3 ; Dichlorohexafluoropropane C3F6Cl2 ; Chloroheptafluoropropane C3F7Cl ; Bromochlorodifluoromethane CF2BrCl ; Bromotrifluoromethane CF3Br ; Dibromotetrafluoroethane C2F4Br2 ; Carbon tetrachloride CCl4 ; 1,1-dichloro-1-flouromethane ; Methyl Bromide ; 1,1,1-trichloroethane C2H3Cl3 (Methyl chloroform) 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries