Non-Tariff Barriers

Non-Tariff Measure

NTM classification

B14: Authorization requirements for importing certain products 

Date when the measure came into force

21 September 2012 

Publication where the measure is specified

Statutory Instrument 144 of 2012 

Regulation where the measure is specified

Pesticides Regulations, 2012 

Country/Region applying the measure

Zimbabwe 

The rationale of the measure

Not stated in the regulations 

Coded list of objectives

X: For purposes n.e.s. 

Description of the measure

7(1) No person shall import into Zimbabwe any experimental pesticide unless he or she is authorized, in writing, by a registering officer to do so.

(2) Any person who imports into Zimbabwe any experimental pesticide shall , no later than seven days after the arrival of the pesticide in Zimbabwe , complete , in triplicate and forward to a registering officer Form P5 , prescribed in the First Schedule: Provided that , where an experimental pesticide is imported by a recognised research institution , it shall if a registering officer so permits be sufficient for the recognised research institution to supply the registering officer with the name or designation only of the experimental pesticide.
(5) It shall be the condition for the importation of experimental pesticides that plants treated with experimental pesticides shall not be sold or disposed of for consumption without the written authority of a registering officer.
Reference of the measure 

Reference of the measure

Art 7(1), (2)and (5) 

Measure also domestic

No 

Products affected by the measure.

Description

Any experimental pesticides i.e. chemicals to be assessed in Zimbabwe for primary biological activity as a pesticide, and not available to the public as a pesticide 

Countries/Regions affected by the measure.

Description

All countries