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Exportation of animals, animal products or restricted materials

Type Class Valid From Valid To
Permit Requirement Goods 28/12/2018
Summary:
Description:

Application for health certificate relating to animals, animal products or restricted materials - Section 8.

(1) An application for a health certificate referred to in section 13(3) of the Act must be made on the form set out in Annexure 3 and be -

(a) submitted in writing or electronically to a veterinary official for the attention of the Chief Veterinary Officer; and

(b) accompanied by the appropriate fee set out in Schedule 2.

(2) The Chief Veterinary Officer must consider the application referred to in subregulation (1) and may approve or refuse the application.

(3) If an application for a health certificate referred to in subregulation (1) is approved, the Chief Veterinary Officer must issue the health certificate to the applicant.

Commodities Affected by the Measure

# HS Code Description
1 0403 Yogurt; buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa:
2 0202 Meat of bovine animals, frozen
3 0207 Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 01.05, fresh, chilled or frozen:
4 0407 Birds' eggs, in shell, fresh, preserved or cooked
5 0506 Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised; powder and waste of these products:
6 0102 Live bovine animals: Cattle
7 0103 Live Swine: Pigs
8 0104 Live sheep and goats: Sheep
9 0201 Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled:
10 0203 Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen:
11 0206 Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen
12 0210 Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal:
13 1502 Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats (excluding those of heading 15.03):
14 0409 Natural honey
15 0505 Skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and parts of feathers (whether or not with trimmed edges) and down, not further worked than cleaned, disinfected or treated for preservation; powder and waste of feathers or parts of feathers:
16 0507 Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste of these products:
17 1501 Pig fat (including lard) and poultry fat (excluding that of heading 02.09 or 15.03):
18 4101 Raw hides and skins of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals (fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not dehaired or split
19 4102 Raw skins of sheep or lambs (fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not with wool on or split (excluding those excluded by Note 1(c) to this Chapter)
20 4103 Other raw hides and skins (fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not dehaired or split (excluding those excluded by Note 1(b) or 1(c) to this Chapter)
21 4104 Tanned or crust hides and skins of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals, without hair on, whether or not split, but not further prepared
22 4105 Tanned or crust skins of sheep or lambs, without wool on, whether or not split, but not further prepared
23 4106 Tanned or crust hides and skins of other animals, without wool or hair on, whether or not split, but not further prepared
24 4107 Leather further prepared after tanning or crusting, including parchment-dressed leather, of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals, without hair on, whether or not split (excluding leather of heading 41.14)
25 4112 Leather further prepared after tanning or crusting, including parchmentdressed leather, of sheep or lamb, without wool on, whether or not split (excluding leather of heading 41.14)
26 4113 Leather further prepared after tanning or crusting, including parchment-dressed leather, of other animals, without wool or hair on, whether or not split (excluding leather of heading 41.14)
27 4114 Chamois (including combination chamois) leather; patent leather and laminated leather; metallised leather
28 4115 Composition leather with a basis of leather or leather fibre, in slabs, sheets or strip, whether or not in rolls; parings and other waste of leather or of composition leather, not suitable for the manufacture of leather articles; leather dust, powder and flour
29 4301 Raw furskins (including heads, tails, paws and other pieces or cuttings, suitable for furriers' use) (excluding raw hides and skins of heading No. 41.01, 41.02 or 41.03)
30 6701 Skins and other parts of birds with their feathers or down, feathers, parts of feathers, down and articles thereof (excluding goods of heading 05.05 and worked quills and scapes)
31 0101 Live horses, asses, mules and hinnies
32 0104 Live sheep and goats: Goats
33 0105 Live poultry, that is to say, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls:
34 0106 Other live animals: Ostriches; emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae):
35 0401 Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:
36 0402 Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter:
37 0405 Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads:
38 0406 Cheese and curd:
39 0511.10 Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption: Bovine semen
40 1601 Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products
41 1602 Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, blood or insects
42 0209 Pig fat, free of lean meat, and poultry fat, not rendered or otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked:
43 2105 Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa
44 0204 Meat of sheep or goats, fresh, chilled or frozen:

Procedures Implementing the Measure

1 Procedure for Application of a Namibian Veterinary Import Permit and Veterinary Import Permit for conveyance intransit
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Import Import Permit 3 Months No
2 Application for livestock export permit
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Export Export Permit 7 Days No
3 Application for livestock import permit
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Import Import permit 30 Days No
4 Application for meat and meat products export permit
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Export Export Permit of Meat and Meat Products 7 Days No
5 Application for registration as a producer of/ Trader in a controlled product at Meat Board of Namibia
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Export Producer Certificate 5 Years No
6 Application for In-Transit Livestock Permit
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Transit Transit Permit 7 Days No
7 Application for In-Transit Meat and Meat Products Permit
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Transit Transit Permit 7 Days No
8 Export permit of animals and animal products
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Export Export permit No
9 Export Abattoirs - FAN self-declaration form
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Export No

Legal Documents Related to the Measure

Name Type Category
Animal Health Act 1 of 2011 regulations Regulation Import/Export