Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B83: Certification requirement 

Date when the measure came into force

03 February 1996 

Publication where the measure is specified

THE AGRICULTURE (FERTILISERS AND FEED) ACT 

Regulation where the measure is specified

THE AGRICULTURE (FERTILISERS) REGULATIONS 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zambia 

The rationale of the measure

Not specified 

Coded list of objectives

A: Protection of human life and health and B: Protection of life and health of animals 

Description of the measure

No person shall import into Zambia bone or any other substance derived from animal carcass for use in the manufacture or processing of or as an ingredient in any farming requisite unless he has submitted to the Minister a certificate issued and signed in the country of origin of such fertiliser, farm feed, bone or other substance, by a person designated by the Minister, in which it is stated that such fertiliser or farm feed is free from such pathogenic organisms as are specified, or that such bone or other substance has been sterilised in the manner prescribed and is free from such pathogenic organisms as are specified. 

Reference of the measure

Section 40 (1) (b) 

Measure also domestic

Yes 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Bone or any other substance derived from animal carcass 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.