Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B15: Authorization requirements for importers 

Date when the measure came into force

17 March 2003 

Publication where the measure is specified

Environmental Management Act [Chapter 20:27] 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Environmental Management Act [Chapter 20:27]. 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zimbabwe 

The rationale of the measure

AN ACT to provide for the sustainable management natural resources and protection of the environment; the prevention of pollution and environmental degradation; the preparation of a National Environmental Plan and other plans for the management and protection of the environment; the establishment of an Environmental Management Agency and an Environment Fund; to amend references to intensive conservation areas and committees and associated matters in various Acts; to repeal the Natural Resources Act [Chapter 20:13], the Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Act [Chapter 20:03], the Hazardous Substances and Articles Act [Chapter 15:05] and the Noxious Weeds Act [Chapter 19:07]; and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing. 

Coded list of objectives

E: Protection of the environment 

Description of the measure

75 Application for registration of pesticides and toxic substances
(1) Any person who intends to manufacture, import or process a new pesticide or toxic substance or who intends to reprocess an existing pesticide or toxic substance, must apply to the Board in the prescribed manner for the registration of the pesticide or toxic substance, before importing, manufacturing, processing, or reprocessing such pesticides or toxic substance.
(2) The application referred to in subsection (1) shall include the name, trade mark, and the molecular
structure, proposed categories of use, estimate quantity of the pesticides or toxic substances and any data related to health and other environmental effects that the Board may require.
(3) Any person who has been manufacturing, importing or processing a pesticide or toxic substance before this
Act, shall apply to the Board in the prescribed manner for registration of such pesticide or toxic substance within
one year after the commencement of this Act.
76 Registration of pesticides and toxic substances
(1) The Board may, upon application in terms of section seventy-five, register a pesticide or toxic substance
subject to such conditions as may be prescribed or as the Board may determine.
(2) Every pesticides or toxic substance shall be registered for a period of ten years unless some other period is
prescribed or specified by the Board.
(3) The registration may be renewed for a further period of ten years at a time or such other period as may be
prescribed or specified by the Board.
(4) Where the Board refuses to register any pesticide or toxic substance, the notice of refusal shall state the
reasons for such refusal.
77 Offences relating to pesticides and toxic substances(1) No person shall—
(a) use or dispose into the environment a pesticide or toxic substance in contravention of any standards or
measures prescribed in terms of section seventy-four;
(b) change the composition of a pesticide or toxic substance, contrary to any standards or measures referred
to in paragraph (a);
(c) detach, alter or destroy any labelling on a pesticide or toxic substance contrary to any standards or
measures referred to in paragraph (a).
(2) No person shall sell, offer for sale, hold for sale, import, deliver for importation to, or receive from, deliver
or offer to deliver to any other person any pesticide or toxic substance that he knows is not registered in terms of
section seventy-six or does not have reasonable cause for believing is so registered.
(3) Any person who contravenes any provision of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable
upon conviction to a fine of not exceeding ten million dollars or to imprisonment for a period of not exceeding ten
years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
(4) Any person who is convicted on a second or subsequent conviction shall be liable to a fine not exceeding
ten million dollars or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding ten years or to both such fine and such
imprisonment. 

Reference of the measure

Articles 75-77 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Pesticides or toxic substances 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries