G/SPS/N/TPKM/339
8 December 2014
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English
 
  NOTIFICATION 
1. Notifying Member: THE SEPARATE CUSTOMS TERRITORY OF TAIWAN, PENGHU, 
KINMEN AND MATSU  
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible: Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, 
Council of Agriculture 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item  number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; IC S numbers should be provided in 
addition, where applicable): Plants, plant products and other regulated articles 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected , to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:   
5. Title of the notified document:  The draft amendment of the "Rules of Conduct for 
Executing Plant Protection and Quarantine"  Language(s): Chinese  Number of 
pages: 6 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/sps/CHT/14_5335_00_x.pdf  
6. Description of content: The main purpose of this amendment is to adjust the 
hierarchy of rules for some phytosanitary requirements in order to improve the regulatory framework of plant protection and quarantine. In this draft, three articles 
were added, eight articles were revised, and three articles were deleted. The deleted 
articles of this amendment were moved to the "Plant Protection and Quarantine Act" (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") and the relevant regulations authorized by the Act. 
The contents of the added articles are: 
a. Regulations for the import consignments accompanied by the fraudulent 
phytosanitary certificate or the phytosanitary certificate with unauthorized modifications. The involved consignments will be destroyed or reshipped. 
b. The current requirements regarding the im portation of the following articles should 
be accompanied by the phytosanitary certificate and was moved to this draft as following:  
 (i) The prohibited plants or plant produc ts that are regulated in the quarantine 
requirements; 
 (ii) The designated plants or plant prod ucts that are regulated by other competent 
authorities. 
c. The importer or the representative agent should provide the labour services during 
the inspection procedure (such as moving the consignments). G/SPS/N/TPKM/339 
 
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  7. Objective and rationale: [ ] food safety, [ ] animal health, [X] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pe st or disease, [X] protect territory 
from other damage from pests.   
8. Is there a relevant international st andard? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text)   
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)    
[X] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)  ISPM No. 12 
and 13  
[ ] None Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
[X] Yes   [ ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:   
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available: The 
draft amendment of "Rules of Conduct for Executing Plant Protection and Quarantine" 
(Council of Agriculture Announcement, Nong-Fang-Zi No. 1031493827 dated on 
17 October 2014) can be found at: http://www.coa.gov.tw/  (available in Chinese). 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined. 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 6 February 2015 
Agency or authority designated to hand le comments: [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address 
(if available) of other body:  
Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, Council of Agriculture 
9F, No.100, Sec. 2, Heping W. Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City, 10070, Taiwan 
Tel: +(886) 2 3343 2091 
Fax: +(886) 2 2332 2200 E-mail: wtosps@mail.baphiq.gov.tw 
13. Text(s) available from: [ ] National Notifi cation Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:   
Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, Council of Agriculture  
9F, No.100, Sec. 2, Heping W. Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City, 10070, Taiwan Tel: +(886) 2 3343 2091 
Fax: +(886) 2 2332 2200 
E-mail: wtosps@mail.baphiq.gov.tw