1997.03.28
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE
REGULATIONS ON PROHIBITING IMPORTATION OF PIGS AND PIG PRODUCTS FROM THE
NETHERLANDS
(Promulgated by Decree No. 18 of the Ministry of Agriculture on March
28, 1997)
Recently the State Administration of Animal and Plant Quarantine was
informed, by the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fishery
of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, of an outbreak of swine fever in
Brabant, a southern province of the Netherlands on February 10, 1997,
first found in the city of Venhorst. The fever is still spreading in the
absence of effective control.
These Regulations are therefore formulated with a view to preventing
spread of the fever into China, and protecting the Chinese pig farming
industry, in accordance with the contents of Article 5 of the Law of the
People's Republic of China on Entry and Exit Animal and Plant
Quarantine:
1. Importation (including direct imports and transshipments) of pigs,
pork and other related products from the Netherlands is prohibited as of
this date.
2. Entry of pigs or related products into China from the Netherlands is
prohibited, whether through mail or carried by passengers. Once
detected, such products will be confiscated and destroyed.
3. Pigs and pig products from the Netherlands, once detected aboard
international flights, ships or trains that pass or stop over in Chinese
territories, shall be seized.
4. Once intercepted and captured, all pigs and products thereof smuggled
into China from the Netherlands shall be destroyed under the supervision
of animal and plant quarantine authorities at the nearby port.
5. Violations of these Regulations are subject to measures taken by
animal and plant quarantine authorities at Chinese ports according to
provisions in the Law of the People's Republic of China on Entry and
Exit Animal and Plant Quarantine and other legislation.
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