Regulation and Policy 

The Temporary Regulation for The Gene Transfer Agriculture Products has Been Published

The Ministry of Agriculture announced the 190^th announcement on 11^th March 2002 that is the temporary regulation of gene transfer agriculture products: The foreign company which export gene transfer biology to China, based on application the security certificate and have security effective document issued by their country or the third country can apply the “Temporary Certification” to the Agriculture Gene Transfer Biology Security Administration of Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), and the eligible company will get the “Temporary Certification” issued by MOA during 30 days after their application. The Chinese importer can hold the “Temporary Certification” of the foreign company’ s to transact the entry formality, and accord to the regulation of

≤Identification Administration Measure of Agriculture Gene Transfer Biology≥ to identify. The period of validity of this measure is up to 20^th Dec 2002.

Before this measure is published, in the afternoon of last Thursday, the Chief Agriculture Negotiation Representation who worked in Trade Representative Office of United States convened the news reception in American Embassy and announced that China and America has made an agreement for the agriculture gene transfer products trade. It is nearly in the mean time, the futures of soybean in the commodity exchange of Chicago rose.

Compared with the <Security Management Regulation of Agriculture Gene Transfer Biology> and the other 3 measures, the temporary measure will cut down the time from 270 days to 30 days in order to “keep the usually trade of agriculture gene transfer products during the application days.”

The above announcement is the products of the Chinese delegation that is formed of Ministry of Foreign Economy and Trade, MOA and the General Bureau of National Quality and Inspection and the American delegation negotiation. And before this, several groups from United States have visited China to negotiate this issue with Chinese government.