Article 11 Whoever imports animals and plants, their products or other
quarantine objects through trade, scientific and technological cooperation,
exchanges, donations or aid shall specify in the contracts or agreements the
requirements for quarantine inspection prescribed by China's law and the
necessity of quarantine certificates issued by the animal and plant quarantine
department under the government of the exporting country or region being
appended therewith.
Article 12 The owner or his or her agent shall apply to the port animal
and plant quarantine office at the port of entry for quarantine inspection of
the animals and plants, their products or other quarantine objects, before or on
their entry, on the strength of documents such as the quarantine certificates
issued by the exporting country or region and the trade contracts.
Article 13 On arrival at a port of a means of transport for carrying
animals, the port animal and plant quarantine office shall for the prevention of
epidemics adopt onthespot preventive measures and conduct disinfection of
persons embarking on or disembarking from the means of transport or having
contacts with the animals, the means of transport for carrying the animals and
the contaminated fields.
Article 14 Import animals and plants, their products and other
quarantine objects shall be quarantined at the port of entry; without consent of
the port animal and plant quarantine office, the same shall not be unloaded from
the means of transport.
The import animals and plants that need to be placed in isolation for
quarantine inspection shall be quarantined in an isolation court designated by
the port animal and plant quarantine office.
By reason of limited conditions at the port of entry, the State animal and
plant quarantine department may decide to have the animals and plants, their
products or other quarantine objects transported to a designated place for
quarantine inspection. In the course of transportation, loading and unloading,
the owner or his or her agent shall take preventive measures against epidemics.
Designated places for storage, processing, isolated feeding or planting shall
conform to the provisions on animal and plant quarantine and epidemic
prevention.
Article 15 The import animals and plants, their products or other
quarantine objects that pass the quarantine inspection are allowed to enter the
country; the Customs shall, after verification, release the same on the strength
of the quarantine certificates issued, or the stamps on the customs declaration
forms affixed, by the port animal and plant quarantine office.
In respect of the import animals and plants, their products or other
quarantine objects that need to be transferred away from a customs surveillance
zone for quarantine inspection, the Customs shall, after verification, release
the same on the strength of the Quarantine Transference Notice issued by the
port animal and plant quarantine office.
Article 16 In respect of the import animals that fail in the quarantine
inspection, the port animal and plant quarantine office shall issue the
Quarantine Treatment Notice notifying the owner or his or her agent to deal with
the said animals in either of the following manners:
(1) The animals that are found suffering from Class A infectious or
parasitic diseases, shall, together with all the other in-contact animals, be
returned or slaughtered with their carcasses destroyed; or
(2) The animals that are found suffering from Class B infectious or
parasitic diseases shall be returned or slaughtered; and the other incontact
animals shall be placed in an isolation camp or any other designated place for
observation.
In respect of import animal products or other quarantine objects that fail in
the quarantine inspection, the port animal and plant quarantine office shall
issue the Quarantine Treatment Notice notifying the owner or his or her agent to
conduct such treatments as disinfection and disinfestation, returning or
destruction. The products or objects that pass the quarantine inspection after a
treatment of disinfection and disinfestation are allowed to enter the country.
Article 17 On discovering through quarantine inspection that import
plants, plant products or other quarantine objects are contaminated with
diseases, pests or weeds dangerous to plants, the port animal and plant
quarantine office shall issue the Quarantine Treatment Notice notifying the
owner or his or her agent to conduct such treatments as disinfection and
disinfestation, returning or destruction. Those that pass the quarantine
inspection after a treatment of disinfection and disinfestation are allowed to
enter the country.
Article 18 The catalogues of the Class A and Class B infectious or
parasitic diseases of animals specified in Article 16, paragraph 1, Items 1 and
2 of this Law and the catalogues of the diseases, pests or weeds dangerous to
plants specified in Article 17 of this Law shall be worked out and announced by
the department of agriculture administration under the State Council.
Article 19 On discovering through quarantine inspection that import
animals and plants, their products or other quarantine objects are contaminated
with diseases, insect pests or harmful organisms which are not covered by the
catalogues specified in Article 18 of this Law but are extremely harmful to
agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, the port animal and plant
quarantine office shall, in accordance with relevant regulations of the
department of agriculture administration under the State Council, notify the
owner or his or her agent to conduct such treatments as disinfection and
disinfestation, returning or destruction. Those that pass the quarantine
inspection after a treatment of disinfection and disinfestation are allowed to
enter the country.
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