National Fishery Products Quality Management Service

Article 28 of Aquatic Organism Disease Control Act
Notification of the detailed procedure and standard for dispatch quarantine (Chapter 4 dispatched quarantine)

When a person intending to import an aquatic organism under Article 23.1 requests for quarantine in the exporting country before importing
When the government of the country exporting an aquatic organism under Article 23.1 asks for quarantine in the exporting country before exporting

Director General of the National FIshery Products Quality management Service (NFQS) should calculate the expenses for dispatched quarantine in accordance with the travel expenses regulation and notify the applicant before the quarantine of the payment
If the expenses are not paid, it will be considered as the applicant is no longer interested in dispatched quarantine. Applicant will receive a notification that the dispatched quarantine is canceled

Quarantine application acceptance, document check, and clinical & laboratory tests are performed in the quarantine field of export country

A dispatched quarantine officer should issue certificate if objects are free from listed diseases and keep objects until release approval

Dispatch quarantine application of the exporting country
Other attachment
- Statement of reason for dispatch quarantine, and release proposal of quarantined items
- Copy of transplant approval certificate (Limited to the aquatic organism for transplantation purpose)
- Documents that confirm the provision of equipments and facilities from the government agency of exporting country to the dispatched quarantine officer (unless the items will be quarantined domestically upon entry)
- Written contract for facility status, location map, control ability of quarantine targets, reporting system, maintenance, management and supervision of the location that will store the quarantine target items

Quarantine