On the 16th of October 2017, China’s AQSIQ released the New “Administrative Provisions on Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Procedures” that will be enforced on the 1st of November of this year.
Compared with the previous one which contained just 12 articles only, the new “provisions” have 32 articles grouped in 5 chapters, encompassing many aspects of the management and supervision of the different phases of Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Procedures.
Some of the remarkable differences are:
Define the various aspects of work in the inspection and quarantine process, including acceptance of inspection, examination dispatch, inspection and quarantine on-site/in laboratory, animal and plant isolation quarantine, quarantine handling, assessment, release and archive.