Decision of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government on the Revision of 19 Government Regulations Including the Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Implementation of Plant Quarantine(from government website)

Decision of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government on the Revision of 19 Government Regulations Including the Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Implementation of Plant Quarantine

ORderof the Shanghai Municipal People' s Government [2002] No.119

April 1, 2002

The Decision of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government on the Revision of 19 Government Regulations Including the Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Implementation of Plant Quarantine has been adopted at the 127th executive meeting of the municipal government on March 25, 2002, is hereby promulgated and come into force on April 1, 2002.

Mayor:Chen Liangyu

Appendix:The Revision of 19 Government Regulations Including the Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Implementation of Plant Quarantine

The municipal people' s government has decided after careful study to revise 19 government regulations including the "Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Implementation of Plant Quarantine" as follows:

I. Revisions of "Procedures of Shanghai Municipality on the Implementation of Plant Quarantine" :
1. The content of Chapter VI "Quarantine of Varieties Introduced from Abroad" is deleted.
2.Article 3 is revised as: "Shanghai Municipal Agricultural and Forestry Bureau (hereinafter referred to as MAFB) is in charge of the whole Municipality' s plant quarantine work. Its affiliated Shanghai Municipal Station of Plant Protection and Inspection is the Municipality' s agricultural plant quarantine organization, responsible for the Municipality' s agricultural plant quarantine work. All county agriculture bureaus and Shanghai Municipal Farms Administration Bureau (hereinafter referred to as MFA) are in charge of the agricultural plant quarantine in their respective jurisdictions, and the executive organizations are their affiliated plant protection and inspection stations."
3. An article is added as Article 16: "The unit and individual person that need to introduce seeds and saplings from abroad shall go through relevant examination and approval formalities according to State stipulations and shall conform to the State quarantine requirements for overseas plants."
4. The original Article 19 is revised as: "The plant quarantine organization shall perform origin quarantine on seeds and saplings breeding bases such as fine varieties farms and seedling nurseries, and the seeds and saplings breeding units shall give assistance in the origin quarantine work."
5. The original Article 28 is revised as: "In the transfer of plants and plant products subject to quarantine, the unit (or individual person) that makes the out-transfer shall apply for quarantine to the plant quarantine organization and the plant quarantine personnel shall perform quarantine according to the Quarantine Operating Rules and collect transfer quarantine fees according to relevant provisions of these Procedures. Those that pass the quarantine inspection will get the plant quarantine certificates. If the origin quarantine has been performed, the unit or individual person that makes the out-transfer shall exchange the Certificate of Origin Quarantine for the plant quarantine certificate with no payment of transfer quarantine fees."

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