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Phytosanitary certificates

Type Class Valid From Valid To
Permit Requirement Goods 15/10/2020
Summary:

To export regulated materials from Namibia, you must apply for a phytosanitary certificate from the Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Forestry using Form AP 4 and pay the required fee. The materials will be inspected by a plant quarantine officer, and if found free of pests or disease, a phytosanitary certificate will be issued.
Description:

(1) A person who wishes to export from Namibia any regulated material contemplated in section 4 of the Act must apply for a phytosanitary certificate to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry.

(2) An application referred to in subregulation (1) must be made on Form AP 4 set out in Annexure 1 and must be accompanied by the fee set out in paragraph D of Annexure 2.

(3) On receipt of an application made in terms of subregulation (1) the Permanent Secretary must cause the regulated material to be inspected by the plant quarantine officer and the provisions of section 5 of the Act applies with the necessary changes, to such an inspection.

(4) If after an inspection has been carried out in terms of this regulation, and the plant quarantine officer is satisfied that the regulated material to be exported are free from insects or disease as contemplated in regulations made under section 22 of the Act, the plant quarantine officer must refer the application together with his or her findings to the Minister or a person designated in writing by the Minister, who must issue to the applicant a phytosanitary certificate on Form AP 5 set out in Annexure 1.

Commodities Affected by the Measure

# HS Code Description
1 1201 Soya beans, whether or not broken
2 1202 Ground-nuts, not roasted or otherwise cooked, whether or not shelled or broken
3 1203 Copra
4 1204 Linseed, whether or not broken
5 1205 Rape or colza seed, whether or not broken
6 1209 Seeds, fruits and spores, of a kind used for sowing
7 1210 Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in form pellets; lupulin
8 0210 Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal:
9 1211 Plants and parts of plants (including seeds and fruits), of a kind used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered
10 1212 Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products (including unroasted chicory roots of the variety CICHORIUM INTYBUS SATIVUM) of a kind used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere specified or included
11 1213 Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground, pressed or in the form of pellets
12 1214 Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale, lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form of pellets
13 1701 Cane or beet sugar in solid form
14 2008 Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants otherwise prepared of preserved
15 2401 Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse
16 0601 Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, dormant, in growth or in flower: chicory plants and roots (excluding roots of heading)
17 0602 Other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn
18 0603 Cut flowers and flower buds of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared
19 0604 Foliage, branches and other parts of plants, without flowers or flower buds, and grasses, mosses and lichens being goods of a kind suitable for bouquets or for ornamental purposes, fresh, dried, dyed, bleached, impregnated or otherwise prepared
20 2001 Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid
21 2002 Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid
22 2003 Mushrooms and truffles, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid
23 2004 Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen (excluding products of heading 20.06
24 2005 Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen (excluding products of heading 20.06)
25 2006 Vegetables, fruit, nuts, fruit-peel and other parts of plants, preserved by sugar (drained, glacé or crystallised)
26 2007 Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut purée and fruit or nut pastes, obtained by cooking, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
27 2008 Fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, otherwise prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit, not elsewhere specified or r included
28 2009 Fruit or nut juices (including grape must and coconut water) and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter

Procedures Implementing the Measure

1 Procedure for applying for a Phytosanitary certificate
Activity Outcome Valid For Single Use
Export Phytosanitary certificate 14 Days No

Legal Documents Related to the Measure

Name Type Category
Regulations relating to Issuing of Import Permits, Examination of Imported Plants, Diseases or Insects, and Lodging of Appeals Regulation Import/Export