Plant Protection and Quarantine Act｜第 14 條｜動植物防檢疫｜Act｜In Force
第 三 章｜農業部｜v1.0
Last Amended: 2018-06-20
The central competent authority may, based on the epidemic status and risk of harm caused by the pests, publicly notify the quarantine regulations for the importation of regulated articles and take the following quarantine measures: 1. Prohibition. 2. Quarantine requirements for relevant management. 3. Post-entry quarantine. The contents of quarantine regulations mentioned in receding Paragraph include regulated articles, species of pests, specific countries or districts, quarantine regulations, quarantine measures, and other related matters. Governmental agencies (institutions), public enterprises, schools, juridical persons, or organizations registered under relevant laws may import and share regulated articles prohibited under Subparagraph 1 of Paragraph 1 for purposes of experiments, research, education, legal deposit, or exhibition by applying for approval from the central competent authority; the application process of importation and sharing, the way of declaration, safety control measures, treatment method, and the production and retaining of the usage record, report or monograph as well as the regulations of other relevant matters shall be prescribed by the central competent authority. For the regulated articles with capability of propagation, if there is no import record from their export country or district, the export country or importer(s) or their agent shall submit the relevant data of pest risk assessment to the plant quarantine authority. The regulated articles must be approved by the plant quarantine authority before they may be imported. During risk assessment, the plant quarantine authority may ask the export country or importer(s) or their agent for supplementary data from the plant quarantine authority of the export country or dispatch personnel to the export country for verification and confirmation. The cost for verification shall be borne by the export country or importer(s) according to the relevant laws and regulations. The application process, the required documents, and information and the methods and procedures of implementing risk assessment shall be prescribed by the central competent authority. The application process and procedure of post-entry quarantine, the requirements for the establishment of quarantine sites, and other relevant regulations in relation to Subparagraph 3 of Paragraph 1 shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.