On December 04, 2014, the Government issued the Decree No. 116/2014/ND-CP detailing a number of articles of the Law on Plant Protection and Quarantine, prescribing that within 24 hours after pest announcement, the pest announcement decision shall be notified in the central and local mass media; administrations of localities where a pest announcement is made shall notify it to plant owners and related organizations and persons for compliance.
Similarly, within 24 hours after a competent person signs a decision announcing the end of pests, this decision shall be notified in the central and local mass media. Suspension from export and import of articles subject to plant quarantine that export of articles shall be suspended when articles are identified as at high risk of carrying plant quarantine objects of importing countries without thorough treatment measures; and articles having violated regulations of importing countries without thorough treatment measures to find out causes of their violation and likely causing loss of export markets. Import of articles shall be suspended when articles imported from a country or territory which are at high risk of carrying plant quarantine objects of Vietnam without thorough treatment measures; articles imported from a country or territory detected to have plant quarantine objects or exotic harmful organisms which fail to comply with Vietnam’s plant quarantine regulations as notified by the central specialized plant protection and quarantine agency and articles from a country or territory which officially notifies an outbreak of plant quarantine objects of Vietnam.
This Decree takes effect on January 18, 2015.
Source : luatvietnam.vn
