G/LIC/N/2/SYC/1  
 
24 June  2020 
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Committee on Import Licensing  Original: English  
 
 
AGREEMENT ON IMPORT LICENSING PROCEDURES  
NOTIFICATION UNDER A RTICLE 5.1 TO 5.4 OF  THE AGREEMENT1 
SEYCHELLES  
The following notification dated 24 June 2020, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of 
Seychelles . 
 
 Category  Notification details  
1 Notifying Member  Seychelles  
2 Title of new 
legislation/procedure  S.I. 41 of 2019 - Customs Management (Prohibited and 
Restricted Goods) Regulations 2019  
3 Date of Publication  
 10th June 2019  
4 Date of entry into force  
 10th June 2019  
5 Website link/Official 
publication of the new 
regulation/procedure  https://www.src.gov.sc/resources/SI/2019/SI41of2019.pdf  
6 Have you attached a copy 
of the regulation (PDF) to 
the Secretariat  
  Yes. ( Please attach a copy of the regulation to the 
notification. ) 
 
 No. 
7 Type of notification   (a) New licensing regulation/procedure2; (please answer 
question 8 to 14)  
 
 (b) Changes to a regulation/procedure which has been 
previously notified in document: ______________ ;  ( 
please answer question 15 and 16 ) 
8 List of products subject 
to licensi ng Please see Annex 1  
9 Nature of licensing  Automatic:  
 
Non-Automatic:  
10 Administrative 
purpose/measure being 
implemented  (a)  Protect public morals;  
(b)  Protect human, animal or plant life and health; 
protect environment;  
(c)  Collect trade statistics or market surveillance;  
(d)  Protection of patents, trademarks and copyrights, 
and the prevention of deceptive practices;  
 
1 It is understood that the notifying Member has also completed its notification obligations under 
Article  1.4(a) and Article 8.2(b) regarding the relevant law/regulation/procedure notified for by filling this form 
in a full and complete manner.  
2 "New licensing regulation/procedure" is understood to refer to any newly introduced law, regulation or 
procedure, and those wh ich are in force but being notified for the first time to the Committee.  G/LIC/N/2/SYC/1  
 
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   Category  Notification details  
(e)  Pursue obligations under the UN Charter and 
other international treaties ( i.e. CITES, Basel 
Convention, Rotterdam Convention, UNSC 
Resolutions etc.)  
(f)  Quota (including TRQ) administration;  
(g)  Regulate imports of arms, ammunition or 
fissionable materials and safeguard national 
security;  
(h)  Other: Fire Safety  
 
11 Administrative body(ies) 
for 
submission of 
applications   
 Ministry/authority and Department:  Import/Export 
Permit Unit  
Address: Ministry of Finance, Trade, Investment and 
Economic Planning  
Website : www.seychellestradeportal.gov.sc   
Telephone:  +248 4382135  
E-Mail:  enquirywto@finance.gov.sc   
12 Contact point for 
informati on on eligibility  Ministry/authority and Department: Trade Division  
Address:  Ministry of Finance, Trade, Investment and 
Economic Planning  
P.O Box. 313  
Victoria, Seychelles  
Website:  www.seychellestradeportal.gov.sc  
Telephone:   +248 4382135  
E-Mail: enquirywto@finance.gov.sc  
 
13 Expected duration of 
licensing procedure  Indefinite  
 
14 A summary of the 
notification in one of the 
WTO official languages   Any persons, firms and institutions importing any goods 
listed under column (2) of the Customs Management Act 
(Prohibited and Restricted Goods) Regulation 2019, shall 
prior to import into the Seychelles of such goods, obtain 
approval in writing from the authority specified in the 
corresponding entry under column (1) of that schedule.  
15 In the case of 7(b), 
please indicate the type 
of new change(s)  (a)  Termination  
(b)  Suspension  
(c)  Modification of specific details in 
existing  
procedures:  
 Product coverage;  
 Administrative purpose;  
 Automatic or Non -automatic;  
 Duration of licensing;  
 Change the nature of quantity/value restriction;  
 Eligibility of applicants;  
 Contact information on  eligibility;  
 Administrative body(ies) for submission of 
application;  
 Documentation requirements (including application 
form);  
 Period for Application;  
 Administrative body(ies) to issue licence;  
 Processing time for issuing licence;  
 Licence fee/administrative charge;  G/LIC/N/2/SYC/1  
 
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   Category  Notification details  
 Deposit/advance payment and relevant conditions;  
 Appeal regulations/procedures;  
 Validity of licence;  
 Other conditions of licence (extension, transferability, 
penalty of non -use etc.);  
 Foreign exchange requirements;  
 Other: __________ (please specify).  
 
 
16  Please elaborate the 
changes in detail (in one 
of the WTO official 
languages)  
  
 
 
 
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  ANNEX 1  
RESTRICTED GOODS  
APPROVAL  
AUTHORITY  GOODS  HS CODE  DESCRIPTION OF GOODS  REASONS  
Ministry 
Responsible for 
Natural 
Resources  Plant and plant 
products  0601.1000 to 
0604.9900  Live tre es and other plants; bulbs 
roots and the like; cut flowers and 
ornamental foliage  Environment/  
Conservation  
 Fur skins,  Hides 
and Skins of  
Animals  4101.2000 to  
4106.9200  
 
 
4301.1000 to  
4304.0000  Raw hides and skins of other 
animals (other than fur skins).  
 
 
Fur skins and artificial fur:  
manufactures thereof.  Conservation  
 All Palm Plants   All Palm plants covered under the 
Plant 
Protection (Aleurotrochelus 
Atratus)  
Regulations, 2007.  
(S.I. 17 of 2007)  Environment/  
Conservation  
 Wood treated  and 
untreated  4401.1000  Fuel wood.  Environment/  
Conservation  
  4401.2100 to 
4401.2200  Wood chips or particles   
  44.03  Wood in the rough, whether or not 
stripped of bark or sapwood, or 
roughly squared.   
  4407.1000  
4407.2100 to 
4407.9900  Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, 
sliced or peeled,  
Whether or not planed, sanded or 
end – jointed, of thickness 
exceeding 6mm   
 Brooms consisting 
of twig s or other 
vegetables 
materials bound 
together, with or 
without handles  9603.1020  
 
 Brooms and brushes of other 
vegetables material (Except 
Coconut Fibres)  Environment/  
Conservation  
 
 
 
 Edible Vegetables  0701.1000 to 
0709.9090  Edible vegetables and certain 
roots and tubers  Plant and Human 
health  
  0710.4000  Sweetcorn (Uncooked or cooked 
by steam or boiling water), frozen   
  0710.9000  Mixtures of vegetables (uncooked 
or cooked by steaming or boiling in 
water), frozen   
  0714.1000 to 
0714.9090  Manioc, arrowroot, salep, 
Jerusalem artichokes, sweet 
potatoes and similar roots and 
tubers with high starch or inulin 
content.   
 Edible fruits  08.01  to 08.06  Coconut, brazil nuts, cashew nuts, 
whether or not shelled or peeled, 
bananas, including plantains, 
dates, figs, pineapples, 
avocadoes, guavas, mangoes and 
mangosteens, citrus fruits and 
grapes (excluding dried)   
  08.07  to 08.10  Fresh melons and papayas, 
apples, pears and quinces, 
apricots, cherries, peaches 
(including nectarines), plums and 
sloes, other fresh fruit  
  
 Spices  0910.1100 to  
09.10.1200  Fresh Ginger  
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  APPROVAL  
AUTHORITY  GOODS  HS CODE  DESCRIPTION OF GOODS  REASONS  
 
0910.9110  
 
0910.9910   
Fresh mixtures of spices  
 
Other fresh spices  
 Meat and edible 
meat offal, fresh, 
frozen or chilled  0201.1000 to 
0209.0000  Meat and meat products of bovine 
animals, fresh or chilled, meat of 
swine fresh or chilled, meat of 
sheep and goats fresh or chilled, 
meat of horses, asses, mules or 
hinnies, fresh, chilled or fro zen Animal and  
Human health.  
   Edible offal of bovine animals, 
swine, sheep, goats, horses, 
asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, 
chilled or frozen, other meat and 
edible meat of the poultry of 
heading: 01.05 fresh, chilled or 
frozen and pig fat free of lean meat 
and poultry fat not rendered or 
otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, 
frozen, salted in brine, dried or 
smoked.   
 Fish and  
crustaceans,  
mollusc and  other 
aquatic  
invertebrates,  
fresh, frozen  or 
chilled  0301.1000 to 
0304.9900  Fish live, fresh or chilled and fish 
products.  Animal and 
Human health  
  0306.1100 to  
0308.9000  Crustaceans, whether in shell or 
not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, 
dried, salted in brine, smoked 
crustaceans, whether in shell or 
not, whether or not cooked before 
or during the smoking process; 
crustaceans in shell, cooked by 
steaming or by boiling in water., 
whether or not chilled, frozen, 
dried, salted or in brine; flour, 
meals and pellets of crustaceans, 
fit for human consumption   
 Fertilizers  (growing  
media and  
compost)  Chapter 31 Animal or vegetable fertilizers, 
whether or not mixed together or 
chemically treated; fertilizers 
produced by the mixing or 
chemical  or treatment of chemical 
or vegetable products  
 Environment  
protection  
   Mineral or chemical fertilizers, 
nitrogenous.  
 
Mineral or chemical fertilizers, 
phosphatic  
 
Mineral or chemical fertilizers, 
potass ic 
  
   Mineral or chemical fertilizers 
containing two or three of the 
fertilizing elements nitrogen, 
phosphorous and potassium; 
other fertilizers; goods of this 
chapter in tablets or similar forms 
or in packages of a gross weight 
not exceeding 10 kg.  
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  APPROVAL  
AUTHORITY  GOODS  HS CODE  DESCRIPTION OF GOODS  REASONS  
Ministry 
Responsible for 
Environment 
and Energy & 
Ministry of 
Natural 
Resources  Animals and  animal 
by-products  not 
treated  0101.1000 to 
0106.9000  Live animals; animal products  Animal and 
Human health  
  0501.0000  Human hair, unworked, whether or 
not washed or scoured; waste of 
human hair  
  
  0502.1000 to  
0502.9000  Pigs, hogs or boars bristles and 
hair, badger hair and other brush 
making hair, waste of such bristles 
or hair.  
  
  0504.0000  Gut bladders and stomach of 
animals (other than fish) whole and 
pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, 
frozen, salted in brine, dried or 
smoked  
  
  0505.1000  To 
0505.9000  Skins and other parts of birds, with 
their feathers or down, feathers 
and parts of feathers (whether or 
not with trimmed edges) and down, 
not further worked than cleaned, 
disinfected or treated for 
preservation, powder and waste of 
feathers or parts of feathers.  
  
  0506.1000 to  
0506.9000  Bones and horn -cores unworked, 
defatted, simply prepared (but not 
cut to shape), treated with acid or 
degalatinised; powder and waste of 
these products  
  
  0508.000  Coral and similar materials, 
unworked or simply prepared but 
not otherwise worked; shells of 
molluscs, crustaceans or 
echinoderms and cuttle -bone, 
unworked or simply prepared but 
not cut in shape, powder and waste 
thereof.  
  
  0510.0000  Ambergris, castoreum, civet and 
musk; cantharides, bile, whether or 
not dried; glands and other animals 
products used in the preparation of 
pharmaceutical products, fresh, 
chilled, frozen or otherwise 
provisionally preserved.  
  
  0511.1000 to 
0511.9900  Animal products not elsewhere 
specified or included; dead animals 
of chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human 
consumption.  
  
Ministry  
Responsible  for 
Environment  
And Energy  Endangered  
Species  0507.1000  To 
0507.9000  Ivory, tortoise -shell, w halebone  
and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, 
hooves, nails, claws and beaks, 
unworked or simply prepared but 
not cut to shape; powder and waste 
of these products.  
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  APPROVAL  
AUTHORITY  GOODS  HS CODE  DESCRIPTION OF GOODS  REASONS  
  9601.1000  To 
9601.9000  Worked ivory, bone, tortoise -shell, 
horn, antlers, coral, mot her-of-
pearl and other animal carving 
material and articles of these 
materials (including articles 
obtained by moulding)  
Any Species listed under the 
Convention on International  Trade 
in Endangered Species (CITES)   
Ministry  
Responsible  for 
Environment  
and Energy  and 
Ministry  of 
Health  Dangerous  
Chemicals and  
Precursor  
Chemicals  Chapter 29  
 Organic Chemicals.  Environment  
Protection  
Ministry  
Responsible  for 
Finance,  Trade 
and Economic 
Planning   Mineral fuels, 
mineral oils  and 
products  of their 
distillations,  
bituminous 
substances; 
Mineral waxes  2710.1210  
2710.1220  
2710.1290  
2710.1911  
2710.1919  
2710.1921  
2710.1922  Aviation Gasoline (Avgas)  
Motor Gasoline  
Other  
Kerosene, type Jet Fuel  
Other  
Gasoline (Diesel)  
Fuel Oils  
 Socio -Economic  
  2710.2000  Petroleum oils and oils obtained 
from bituminous minerals, (other 
than crude); and preparations not 
elsewhere specified or included, 
containing by  weight 70% or more 
of petroleum oils or of oils 
obtained from bituminous 
minerals, these oils being the basic 
constituents of the preparations, 
containing biodiesel, other than 
waste oils.   
  
  2710.9100  Containing polychlorinated 
biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated 
terphenyls (PCTs) or 
polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs)  
  
  2710.9900  Other  
  
  27.11  Petroleum gases and other 
gaseous hydrocarbons.   
 Alcoholic  
beverages  2203.0010 to  
2208.9029  Alcohol Beverages and spirits.  Human 
health/socio -
economic  
 Tobacco  Chapter 24  Tobacco and manufactures 
tobacco substitutes.   
 Alcoholic Popsicles  2105.0010  Popsicles having alcoholic strength 
of 0.5% but not exceeding 15% 
volume   
Department of 
Transport  Left-hand Drive  
Vehicles  Chapter 87  All vehicles of chapter 87 with the  
steering wheel located on the left -
hand side; excluding golf carts and 
any other  off-road vehicles or 
vehicles for which  permission has 
been granted to be used  off road.  Public safety  
 Second -Hand 
Vehicles   All vehicles of chapter 87, 
previously used; excluding golf 
carts and any other off -road 
vehicles or vehicles for which 
permission has been granted to be 
used off road.  Environment  
Protection  G/LIC/N/2/SYC/1  
 
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  APPROVAL  
AUTHORITY  GOODS  HS CODE  DESCRIPTION OF GOODS  REASONS  
 Vehicle and Chassis 
Bodies  8426.1100  to 
8427.9000  
 Ship’s derricks; cranes, including 
cable cranes; mobiles lifting 
frames; straddle carriers and 
works trucks fitted with crane. 
Fork-lift trucks; other works trucks 
fitted with lifting or handling 
equipment  
  
  8707.1010  Bodies (including Cabs) of trucks 
of heading 87.03.  
  
  8707.9010  to  
8707.9090  
 Bodies (including Cabs) for the 
motor vehicle of heading 87.01, 
87.02, 87.04 and 87.0 5 
  
  8429.1100  to 
8430.6900  
 Self-propelled bulldozers, graders, 
levellers, scrapers, mechanical 
shovels, excavators, shovel 
loaders, tamping machines and 
road rollers.   
   Other moving, grading, levelling, 
scraping, excavating, tamping, 
compacting, extracting or  boring 
machinery, for earth, minerals or 
ores; pile -drivers and pile -
extracto rs; snow -ploughs and 
snow blowers.   
  
  8701.1000  to 
8705.9000  
 Vehicles other than railway or 
tramway rolling stock  
  
  8706.0000  
 Chassis fitted with engines, for the 
motor vehicle of heading nos. 
87.01 to 87.05  
  
  8708.9910  Nose cuts, front cuts, rear cuts and 
quarter panels of vehicles of 
heading Nos. 87.02 to 87.04  
Floorboard, roof panel, roof pillars, 
roof panel, rear light panel, centre 
door pillar, apron, front light and 
radiator panel, lower side panel, 
firewall panel, rear carrier, fro nt 
quarter cut and rear quarter cut.  
  
  8708.9930  Chassis with no engine.  
  
  87.11  Motorcycle (including mopeds) 
and cycles fitted with auxiliary 
motor, with or without side -cars; 
side car s. 
  
  8716.1000  to 
8716.8000  
 Trailers and semi-trailers and 
other vehicles not mechanically 
propelled, excluding wheel -
barrows and trollies.  
  
  8407.3100  to 
8407.9000  Reciprocating piston engines of a 
kind used for the propulsion of 
vehicles of chapter 87  
  
  8408.2000  Engines of a kind used for the 
propulsion of vehicles of chapter 
87. 
  
  8708.9000  Other Engines   G/LIC/N/2/SYC/1  
 
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  APPROVAL  
AUTHORITY  GOODS  HS CODE  DESCRIPTION OF GOODS  REASONS  
Ministry  
Responsible  for 
Home  Affairs &  
Commissioner  
of Police   
 Pyrotechnic  
products and  
Blasting  Explosive s 36.01  to 36.04  
 Explosives; pyrotechnic products; 
pyrophoric alloys; certain 
combustible  preparations 
(excluding matches),  fireworks 
and signal flares.  National Security  
 
  8710.0000  
 Tanks and other armoured fighting 
vehicles, motorized, whether or 
not fitted with weapons, and parts 
for such vehicles . 
  
  8906.1000  War ships  
  
  Chapter 93  Arms and Ammunition  
 
No person except a member of the 
Seychelles Peoples Defence Forces 
and the police may import -  
   (1) the uniform, or a distinctive 
part of the uniform, of the 
Seychelles Peoples Defence Forces 
and the police; or    
   (2) a uniform any part of which is 
similar to a distinctive part of the 
uniform of the Seychelles Peoples 
Defence Forces and the police   
   (3) material printed with military 
camouflage print in the colours of 
the Seychelles Peoples Defenc e 
Forces and the Police.   
   Anything which has the physical 
appearance of being an exact 
replica of a firearm or ammunition, 
or a replica gun or toy ammunition 
which is so realistically designed 
so as to make it indistinguishable 
from a firearm or ammunition   
Ministry  
Responsible  for 
Health  Pharmaceutical  
and Veterinary  
products  3001.2000 to  
3004.5000  Pharmaceutical products (example 
gland  and organs, human blood; 
animal  blood), and parts of 
medicaments.  Human health  
  Chapter 28  Products of the Chemical allied 
Industries   
  3006.1000 to  
3006.7000  Pharmaceutical products Specified 
in Note 4 of Chapter 30 of the 
Customs Management (Tariff and 
Classification of Goods) 
Regulations, 2018   
  3808.5200  to  
3808.6900   Goods specified in Subheading 
Note 1 to chapter 38: alachlor 
(ISO); aldicarb (ISO); aldrin 
(ISO); azinphos -methyl (ISO); 
binapacryl (ISO); camphechlor 
(ISO) (toxaphene); captafol 
(ISO); chlordane (ISO); 
chlordimeform (ISO); 
chlorobenzilate (ISO); DDT (ISO) 
(clofenotane (INN), 1,1,1 -
trichloro -2,2-bis(p-
chlorophenyl)ethane); dieldrin 
(ISO, INN); 4,6 -dinitro -o-cresol 
(DNOC (ISO)) or its salts; dinoseb 
(ISO), its salts or its esters; 
endosulfan (ISO); ethylene 
dibromide (ISO) (1,2 -
dibromoethane);  
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  APPROVAL  
AUTHORITY  GOODS  HS CODE  DESCRIPTION OF GOODS  REASONS  
   ethylene dichloride (ISO) (1,2 -
dichloroethane); fluoroacetamide 
(ISO); heptachlor (ISO); 
hexachlorobenzene (ISO); 
1,2,3,4,5,6 -
hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH 
(ISO)), including lindane (ISO, 
INN); mercury compounds; 
methamidophos (ISO); 
monocrotophos (ISO); oxirane 
(ethylene oxide); parathion (ISO); 
parathion -methyl (ISO) (methyl -
parathion); penta - and 
octabromodiphenyl eth ers; 
pentachlorophenol (ISO), its salts 
or its esters;   
   perfluorooctanesulphonic acid and 
its salts; 
perfluorooctanesulphonamides;  
 
perfluorooctanesulphonyl fluoride; 
phosphamidon (ISO); 2,4,5 -T 
(ISO) (2,4,5 -
trichlorophenoxyacetic acid), its 
salts or its esters; tributyltin 
compounds, dustable powder 
formulations containing a mixture 
of benomyl (ISO), carbofuran 
(ISO) and thiram (ISO).   
  3808.9110  to 
3808.9390  Insecticides  
Fungicides  
Herbicides  
  
  3808.9911  
to 3808.9929  
 Rodenticides  
Other  
  
  6304.2000  Bed nets specified in subheading 
Note 1 of Chapter 63; made from 
warp knit fabrics, impregnated or 
coated with alphacypermethrin 
(ISO), chlorfenapyr (ISO), 
deltamethrin (INN, ISO), lambda -
cyhalothrin (ISO), permethrin 
(ISO) or pirimiphos -methyl (ISO)   
Ministry  
Responsible  for 
Information &  
Communication  
Technology  Radio  
communicatio n 
equipment  
including VSAT  8525.5010  to    
8525.6000  
 Broadcasting or 
Telecommunication Jamming 
equipment  
 
 
Land Mobile radio equipment 
(Private Mobile Radios (PMR)/ 
Walkie Talkies (hand -held and 
fixed) and base stations)  
 
Citizen Band (CB) radio equipment  
 
Aeronautical radio equipment 
(hand -held and fixed)  
 
Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) 
access network equipment (GSM 
(2G), UMTS (3G), LTE (4G), etc.)  
 
Broadcasting Transmitters (all 
frequency bands) (e.g. AM, FM, TV, 
etc.) 
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  APPROVAL  
AUTHORITY  GOODS  HS CODE  DESCRIPTION OF GOODS  REASONS  
   Fixed communication link 
equipment  
 
Satellite Mobile equipment (e.g. 
Iridium, Globalstar, Thuraya, 
Inmarsat, etc.)  
 
Amateur Radio equipment  
 
Meteorological Aid equipment, 
including satellite meteorological 
aid equipment  
 
Private Radio Paging equipment  
 
Fixed Broadband Wireless Access 
(FBWA) equipment  
 
Excluding:  
FBWA equipment operating in 
accordance with the following 
European standards from the 
European Technical Standards 
Institute (ETSI):  
 
• 2.4 GHz *  
EN 300 -328 
Maximum EIRP 100mW or 20dBm  
• 5.7 GHz *  
EN 300 -440 
Maximum EIRP 25mW or 14dBm  
 
*No external antennas permitted  
  
  8526.1000  
 
8526.9100  
 
8529.1010  
to 
8529.1040  Radars  
Police radar detector  
 
Radio Navigational Aid equipment  
 
Satellite dishes (residential 
(personal) & commercial use) - 
receive only.  
 
Very Small Aperture Terminal 
(VSAT) equipment - transmit and 
receive   
Seychelles  
Bureau of 
Standards   Glass and  glazed 
glass products for  
architectural  use in 
building  7005.1000 to  
7005.3000  Float glass and surface ground or  
polished glass, in sheets, whether 
or not  
having an absorbent, reflecting or 
nonreflecting layer, but not 
otherwise worked.  Public safety  
  7016.9000  Other articles of pressed/moulded 
glass whether or not wired, of a 
kind used for  building or 
construction purposes.   
Ministry  
Responsible  for 
Environment  
and Energy &  
Seychelles  
Energy  
Commission   PVC Insulated  
wires and  Cables 
for fixed wiring  
 
PVC Insulated  
flexible cord  for use 
with appliances 
and equipmen t 
intended for  
domestic office and 
similar  8544.1100 to  
8544.2000  
 
 Winding wire of copper and of 
other  materials.  
 
PVC insulated cables should be in 
accordance to British Standard BS 
6004 or IEC Standard 60227.  Fire Safety  G/LIC/N/2/SYC/1  
 
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  APPROVAL  
AUTHORITY  GOODS  HS CODE  DESCRIPTION OF GOODS  REASONS  
environments  
  8544.4200 to  
8544.600 0 PVC insulated flexible cables 
(cords) should be in accordance to 
British Standard BS 6500 or IEC 
Standard  60227.   
Ministry  
Responsible  for 
Land Use  and 
Habitat  Prefabricated  
Building  9406.0000  Prefabricated buildings.  Public safety  
Seychelles  
Civil Aviation  
Authority  Aircraft  8801.1000 to  
8802.6000  Balloons and dirigibles; gliders, 
hang gliders and other non -
powered aircraft.  
Other aircraft (for example, 
helicopters,  aeroplanes); 
spacecraft (including  satellite); 
and spacecraft launch  vehicles.  Public safety  
Seychelles  
Maritime  
Safety  
Authority   Ships and  Vessels  8901.1000  Cruise ships, excursion boats and 
similar  vessels principally 
designed for the  transport of 
persons; ferry boat s of all kinds. Public safety  
  8901.2000  Tanker s.  
  8901.3000  Refrigerated vessels, other than 
those of  subheading 8901.20.   
  8901.9000  Other vessels for the 
transportation of  goods and other 
vessels for the  transportation of 
both persons and  goods.    
  8902.0000  Fishing Vessels.   
  8903.1000 to  
8903.9200  Yachts and other vessels or 
pleasure or  sports; (These include 
Inflatable s, sailboats with or 
without auxiliary motor, 
motorboats,  other than outboard 
motor -boats but  exclude Kayak 
and Canoes).   
  8903.9990  Other boats and vessels not 
elsewhere  specified.   
Ministry 
Responsible for 
Environment  Utensils and 
Polystyrene Boxes   Polystyrene Boxes  Environment 
Protection  
 Non-Plastic Straws   Non-Plastic Straws   
 Plastic Bags   Plastic Bags   
 Other sheets, 
panels, tiles and 
similar articles not 
containing 
asbestos  6811.8100 to 
6811.8900  Other sheets, panels, tiles and 
similar articles not containing 
asbestos  Human Health  
 Electronic 
cigarettes including 
its e -liquid and 
cartridges   Electronic cigarettes including its 
e-liquid and cartridges   
 Hydrofluoric 
carbon (HFC) gas  
 3824.7800  
 Mixtures containing halogenated 
derivatives of methane, ethane or 
propane: containing 
perfluorocarbons (PFCs) or 
hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), but 
not containing chlorofluorocarbon 
(CFCs) or hydro 
chlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs)  
 
 Environment 
Protection  
 HFC refrigerated 
and HFC dependent 
equipment  8415.1000  
8415.2000  
8415.8100  
8415.8200  HFC refrigerated and HFC 
dependent equipment   G/LIC/N/2/SYC/1  
 
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  APPROVAL  
AUTHORITY  GOODS  HS CODE  DESCRIPTION OF GOODS  REASONS  
8418.1000  
8418.2100 to  
8418.6900  
 Radioactive 
Chemicals  28.44  Radioactive chemical elements 
and radioactive isotopes (including 
the fissile or fertile chemical 
elements and isotopes) and their 
compounds; mixtures and 
residues containing these 
products.  
 
These goods shall be handled, 
transported, packed, protected, 
stored or disposed of in 
accordance with any specified 
conditions or restrictions imposed 
by the Commissioner of Customs 
after consul tation with the Public 
Health Commissioner and the 
Commissioner of Police  
 Environment 
Protection  
 
 
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