Provisional Translation
| OTO No. | 267 | Classification | MAFF-51 |
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| Date of Acceptance | April 20, 1987 | Ministry/Agency Receiving Complaint | Economic Planning Agency |
| Responsible Ministries | Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries | Related Laws | Domestic Animal Infectious Diseases Control Law |
| Complainant | Australian government agency | Exporting Countries | Australia |
| Subject | Concerning import quarantine for live cattle, 1. Expansion of quarantine facilities 2. For better use of quarantine facilities by: (1) Shortening the detention period for import quarantine after importation by lengthening the detention period for export quarantine before shipment in the exporting country. (2) Shortening the detention period for import quarantine after importation by counting the time spent at sea in transportation as post-import quarantine period. |
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| Details of Measures | 1. It was replied that efforts are being made in fiscal 1987 to enlarge capacity at quarantine stations and to expand the number of inspections, and that these efforts will be continued in fiscal 1988 in light of the sharp increase desires for importing live cattle. It was also explained that the limited availability of inspectors makes it difficult for inspectors to conduct animal quarantine inspections at facilities built by cattle importers. 2. From animal quarantine point of view the results of the embarkation quarantine inspection cannot directly be applied to ones of import quarantine, and international practice is to have inspections in both the exporting country and the importing country. It was replied that it is impossible to shorten the detention period, given the recent record that post-import quarantine has achieved in keeping anaplasmosis, brucellosis, etc. (notifiable diseases) from being introduced into Japan when they were discovered on cattle being imported from Australia. |
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| Classification of Processing | 1. Ca 2. D |
Directions | 1. II-a 2. II-a |
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