G/SPS/N/TPKM/333
4 November 2014
(14-6399)  Page: 1/2
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 any 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 "Enforcement Rules on 
Plant Protection and Quarantine Act"  Language(s): Chinese  Number of pages: 12 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/sps/CHT/14_4904_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 qu arantine. In this draft, five articles were 
added, 13 articles were revised, and eight articles were deleted. The deleted articles of 
this amendment were moved to "Plant Protection and Quarantine Act" (hereinafter 
referred to as "the Act") and the relevant regulations authorized by the Act. 
This draft moved the information required for initiating the pest risk assessment for 
plant or plant products that do not have historical trade record to the "Enforcement 
Rules on Plant Protection and Quarantine Act" from the current phytosanitary requirements. In addition, the draft clearly elucidated that the phytosanitary action will be taken for the pests that may cause damage and do not have occurrence record as 
described by ISPM No. 20. 
The importation of the biological control ag ent which was regulated by "Agro-pesticides 
Management Act" and used for agricultural purposes, was exempted from the adoption 
of the paragraph 1 of Article 15 of the Act.  
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.   G/SPS/N/TPKM/333 
 
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  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 1, 2, 
11, 20, 21 and 32.  
[ ] 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 Enforcement Rules on Plan t Protection and Quarantine Act (Council 
of Agriculture Announcement, Nong-Fang-Zi No. 1031493806 dated on 9 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) : 3 January 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