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Harvesting, Transportation, Processing, Sale, Importation, Transit, and Exportation of Forest Produce and Issuing of Permits, Licences and other Documents Required for those Activities

Type Class Valid From Valid To
Permit Requirement Goods 03/08/2015
Summary:

The passage outlines regulations requiring licences or permits for harvesting, transporting, selling, marketing, exporting, and importing forest produce. General dealers are exempt from needing a marketing licence but must prove legal procurement. Exporting unprocessed forest produce is restricted unless authorized for special purposes. A true copy of the relevant licence must accompany forest produce during transport. Importing forest produce requires an import permit and proof of export from the origin country. Farming or trading honey-producing organisms also requires authorization, and honey harvesting is restricted from September to December unless the organisms are fed.
Description:

A person is not authorised to harvest, transport, sell, market, transit, export or import forest produce without a valid licence for harvesting or permit for transport, marketing, transit, export or import as set out in the form of Forms 12 to 16 as set out in Annexure 1.

(2) A person with a general dealers licence is exempted from having a marketing licence however he or she must be able to prove that such forest produce was obtained legally by producing copies of the third party’s harvesting licence, marketing licence and transport permit issued under the Act.

(3) A person may not export any unprocessed forest produce, including semi-processed planks unless authorised by the Director for special purposes such as research, education, cultural and disease identification for which relevant documents are to be provided as a pre-requisite.

(4) The true copy of a licence issued under this regulation must accompany the forest produce in respect of which it is issued until the forest produce is processed or exported and must be produced on request to any authorised officer.

(5) A person intending to transport imported forest produce must, at the port of entry into Namibia or the nearest forestry office, apply for an import permit and produce the export permit from the country where the forest produce has been exported.

(6) A person may not be issued with a marketing licence, transporting or exporting permit without a harvesting licence, receipt of procurement or any other proof of obtaining forest produce certified by the relevant authorising officers.

(7) A person may not farm or trade with honey producing organisms unless authorised to do so in the form of Forms 8 and 9 as set out in Annexure 1.

(8) Except where honey producing organisms are fed, a person may not harvest during the months of September to December of each year.

Commodities Affected by the Measure

# HS Code Description
1 4401 Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms; wood in chips or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms
2 4402 Wood charcoal (including shell or nut charcoal), whether or not agglomerated
3 4403 Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared
4 4404 Hoopwood; split poles; piles, pickets and stakes of wood, pointed but not sawn lengthwise; wooden sticks, roughly trimmed but not turned, bent or otherwise worked, suitable for the manufacture of walking-sticks, umbrellas, tool handles or the like; chipwood and the like
5 4407 Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm
6 4408 Sheets for veneering (including those obtained by slicing laminated wood), for plywood or for similar laminated wood and other wood, sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded, spliced or end-jointed, of a thickness not exceeding 6 mm
7 4409 Wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, V-jointed, beaded, moulded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges, ends or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed
8 Veneers, Droppers, Mopane roots and Forest fruits
9 4410 Particle board, oriented strand board (OSB) and similar board (for example, waferboard) of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances
10 4411 Fibreboard of wood or other ligneous materials, whether or not bonded with resins or other organic substances
11 4412 Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood
12 4413 Densified wood, in blocks, plates, strips or profile shapes
13 4415 Packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings, of wood; cable-drums of wood; pallets, box pallets and other load boards, of wood; pallet collars of wood
14 4418 Builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels, assembled flooring panels, shingles and shakes

Procedures Implementing the Measure

1 Application for Harvesting Permit for Forest Produce
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Export 3 Months No
2 Application for Export Permit for Forest Produce
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Export Forest permit for Export 7 Days No
3 Application for Transit Permit for Forest Produce
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Transit 4 Days No
4 Forestry import permit
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Import Import permit 7 Days No
5 Required documents when applying for forest harvesting permit
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Export Harvesting permit for forest produce to export 3 Months No

Legal Documents Related to the Measure

Name Type Category
Forest Regulations: Forest Act, 2001 Notice Import/Export