Measure

The Minister must consider an import permit application based on a risk assessment and can either approve it, approve it with conditions like quarantine or health testing, or refuse it.

7. The Minister must consider an application for an import permit, taking into account findings of a risk assessment carried out in terms of regulation 6, and may -

(a) approve the application and issue to the applicant an import permit in the form substantially corresponding with Annexure D;

(b) approve the application, subject to condition that the applicant complies with further risk management measures, which may include -
    (i) the quarantine, in the exporting country, of the aquatic organisms to be imported;
    (ii) diagnostic testing of the aquatic organisms to be imported to ensure that the organisms are free from diseases; or
    (iii) the issuing of a health certificate by the competent authority of the exporting country; or

(c) refuse the application.