Ordinance for Enforcement of Act on the Protection of Fishery Resources

1 (The diseases that are subjects for import quarantine) Article 1-2 The Diseases that subjects for import quarantine specified in the ministerial ordinance of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries , prescribed in Paragraph 1, Article 13-2 of the Act on the Protection of Fishery Resources (hereinafter referred to as the "Act"), are the infectious diseases listed respectively in the columns in the following table in accordance with the types of Aquatic animals listed in the top columns of the table: Aquatic animals The diseases that subjects for import quarantine Salmonidae Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (excluding Genotype IVa) Infection with salmonid alphavirus Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis Piscirickettsiosis Enteric redmouth disease Whirling disease Cyprinus carpio Spring viraemia of carp Koi herpesvirus disease Enteric redmouth disease Species of genus Carassius Hypophthalmichthys nobilis Hypophthalmichthys molitrix Spring viraemia of carp Enteric redmouth disease Mylopharyngodon piceus Ctenopharyngodon idella Spring viraemia of carp Oreochromis niloticus Enteric redmouth disease Pagrus major Glugeosis of red sea bream Marsupenaeus japonicus Yellow head disease Necrotising hepatopancreatitis Taura syndrome Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease Tetrahedral baculovirosis Covert mortality disease of shrimp Gill-associated virus disease Litopenaeus vannamei Yellow head disease Necrotising hepatopancreatitis Taura syndrome Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease Infectious myonecrosis Tetrahedral baculovirosis Covert mortality disease of shrimp Penaeus monodon Yellow head disease Necrotising hepatopancreatitis Taura syndrome Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease Infectious myonecrosis Tetrahedral baculovirosis Gill-associated virus disease Spherical Baculovirosis Fenneropenaeus chinensis Yellow head disease Necrotising hepatopancreatitis Taura syndrome Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease Tetrahedral baculovirosis Covert mortality disease of shrimp Gill-associated virus disease Spherical Baculovirosis Species of genus Litopenaeus (excluding Litopenaeus vannamei) Yellow head disease Necrotising hepatopancreatitis Taura syndrome Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis Infectious myonecrosis Tetrahedral baculovirosis Species of genus Penaeus (excluding Penaeus monodon) Yellow head disease Necrotising hepatopancreatitis Taura syndrome Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis Infectious myonecrosis Tetrahedral baculovirosis Gill-associated virus disease Spherical Baculovirosis Species of genus Fenneropenaeus (excluding Fenneropenaeus chinensis) Yellow head disease Necrotising hepatopancreatitis Taura syndrome Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis Tetrahedral baculovirosis Gill-associated virus disease Spherical Baculovirosis Species of genus Melicertus Species of genus Metapenaeus Yellow head disease Necrotising hepatopancreatitis Taura syndrome Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis Tetrahedral baculovirosis Spherical Baculovirosis Penaeidae (excluding Marsupenaeus japonicus, species of genera Litopenaeus, Penaeus, Fenneropenaeus, Melicertus and Metapenaeus) Yellow head disease Necrotising hepatopancreatitis Taura syndrome Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis Tetrahedral baculovirosis Species of genus Acetes Palaemonidae Yellow head disease Haliotis diversicolor aquatilis Haliotis diversicolor supertexta Haliotis diversicolor diversicolor Infection with abalone herpesvirus Haliotis discus hannai Haliotis discus discus Haliotis madaka Haliotis gigantea Pustule disease of abalone/Blister disease of abalone (caused by Vibrio furnissii (= V. fluvialis biotype Ⅱ)) Species of genus Crassostrea Infection with ostreid herpesvirus 1 microvariants (limited to μvar) Mizuhopecten yessoensis Infection with Perkinsus qugwadi Halocynthia roretzi Soft tunic syndrome 2 The Aquatic animals specified based on Paragraph 1, Article 13-2 of the Act of the ministerial ordinance of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries are the Aquatic animals listed in the top columns of the table in the preceding paragraph and shall be listed as follows: (1) Living Aquatic animals (in the case of the Aquatic animals for human consumption, limited to the Aquatic animals stored at either the water supplied for public use or the establishment that directly drain water to this.) (2) Non-living Aquatic animals (limited to the Aquatic animals for aquaculture (excluding fish meal and fish oil) including the processed Aquatic animals) (Application for import) Article 1-3 The person who wishes to obtain permission based on Paragraph 1, Article 13-2 of the Act must submit the application using the Appended Form 1. 2 The matters specified in Paragraph 2, Article 13-2 of the Act of the ministerial ordinance of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries shall be the following matters: http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxrefer.cgi?H FILE=%8F%BA%93%F1%98Z%96@%8EO%88%EA%8EO&REF NAME=%96@%91%E6%8F%5C%8EO%8F%F0%82%CC%93%F1%91%E6%88%EA%8D%80&ANCHOR F=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000001000000000000000000&ANCHOR T=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000001000000000000000000#1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000001000000000000000000 http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxrefer.cgi?H FILE=%8F%BA%93%F1%98Z%96@%8EO%88%EA%8EO&REF NAME=%96@%91%E6%8F%5C%8EO%8F%F0%82%CC%93%F1%91%E6%88%EA%8D%80&ANCHOR F=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000001000000000000000000&ANCHOR T=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000001000000000000000000#1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000001000000000000000000 http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxrefer.cgi?H FILE=%8F%BA%93%F1%98Z%96@%8EO%88%EA%8EO&REF NAME=%96@%91%E6%8F%5C%8EO%8F%F0%82%CC%93%F1%91%E6%88%EA%8D%80&ANCHOR F=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000001000000000000000000&ANCHOR T=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000001000000000000000000#1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000001000000000000000000 http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxrefer.cgi?H FILE=%8F%BA%93%F1%98Z%96@%8EO%88%EA%8EO&REF NAME=%96@%91%E6%8F%5C%8EO%8F%F0%82%CC%93%F1%91%E6%93%F1%8D%80&ANCHOR F=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000002000000000000000000&ANCHOR T=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000002000000000000000000#1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000002000000000000000000 (1) Person’s name, or business name, and address of the consignee and the consignor. (2) Planned port of embarkation, planned date of departure and the planned ship name or aircraft name to load the Aquatic animals to be imported. (3) Destination of the Aquatic animals to be imported. (4) Other referential matters. (Issuance of a certificate of import permission) Article 1-4 The format of a certificate of import permission issued by the provisions of Paragraph 4, Article 13-2 of the Act shall be the Appended Form 2. (Period to be controlled) Article 1-5 The period specified in Paragraph 1, Article 13-3 of the Act, the ministerial ordinance of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, shall be the period listed respectively in the columns in the following table in accordance with the type of the Aquatic animals listed in the top column of the table: Aquatic animals Period Salmonidae 10 days (15 days in the case that the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries doesn’t consider that imported live salmonidae are not likely to to be infected with pathogenic agent of Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia, 42 days in the case that the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries doesn’t consider that imported live salmonidae is not likely to be infected with pathogenic agent of Whirling disease, 84 days in the case that the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries doesn’t consider that imported live salmonidae is not likely to be infected with pathogenic agent of Piscirickettsiosis) Cyprinus carpio 10 days (15 days in the case that the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries doesn’t consider that imported live Cyprinus carpio is not likely to be infected with pathogenic agent of Spring viraemia of http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxrefer.cgi?H FILE=%8F%BA%93%F1%98Z%96@%8EO%88%EA%8EO&REF NAME=%96@%91%E6%8F%5C%8EO%8F%F0%82%CC%93%F1%91%E6%8El%8D%80&ANCHOR F=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000004000000000000000000&ANCHOR T=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000004000000000000000000#1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000004000000000000000000 http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxrefer.cgi?H FILE=%8F%BA%93%F1%98Z%96@%8EO%88%EA%8EO&REF NAME=%96@%91%E6%8F%5C%8EO%8F%F0%82%CC%93%F1%91%E6%8El%8D%80&ANCHOR F=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000004000000000000000000&ANCHOR T=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000004000000000000000000#1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300200000004000000000000000000 http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxrefer.cgi?H FILE=%8F%BA%93%F1%98Z%96@%8EO%88%EA%8EO&REF NAME=%96@%91%E6%8F%5C%8EO%8F%F0%82%CC%8EO%91%E6%88%EA%8D%80&ANCHOR F=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300300000001000000000000000000&ANCHOR T=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300300000001000000000000000000#1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300300000001000000000000000000 carp, and 21 days in the case that the Minister of Agricuture, Forestry and Fisheries doesn’t consider that imported live Cyprinus carpio is not likely to be infected with pathogenic agent of Koi herpesvirus disease Species of genus Carassius Hypophthalmichthys nobilis Hypophthalmichthys molitrix 10 days (15 days in the case that the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries doesn’t considers that imported live genus Carassius, Hypophthalmichthys nobilis and/or Hypophthalmichthys molitrix is not likely to be infected with pathogenic agent of Spring viraemia of carp) Mylopharyngodon piceus Ctenopharyngodon idella 15 days Oreochromis niloticus 10 days Pagrus major 30 days Penaeidae Species of genus Acetes Palaemonidae 10 days (18 days in the case that the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries doesn’t consider that imported live shrimp is not likely to be infected with pathogenic agent of Necrotising hepatopancreatitis, 20 days in the case that the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries doesn’t consider that imported live shrimp is not likely to be infected with pathogenic agent of Taura syndrome, 30 days in the case that the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries doesn’t consider that imported live shrimp is not likely to be infected with pathogenic agent of Covert mortality disease of shrimp, and 50 days in the case that the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries doesn’t consider that imported live shrimp is not likely to be infected with pathogenic agent of Infectious myonecrosis) Haliotis diversicolor aquatilis Haliotis diversicolor supertexta Haliotis diversicolor diversicolor 7 days Haliotis discus hannai Haliotis discus discus Haliotis madaka Haliotis gigantea 180 days Species of genus Crassostrea 7 days Mizuhopecten yessoensis 210 days Halocynthia roretzi 23 days (Control method) Article 1-6 The methods specified in Paragraph 1, Article 13-3 of the Act, the ministerial ordinance of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, shall be as follows: (1) To controll the Aquatic animals distinctively from other Aquatic animals. (2) To disinfect the water or other liquid contained in the containers and packages of such Aquatic animals or the rearing water of such Aquatic animals in the event of discharging them. http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxrefer.cgi?H FILE=%8F%BA%93%F1%98Z%96@%8EO%88%EA%8EO&REF NAME=%96@%91%E6%8F%5C%8EO%8F%F0%82%CC%8EO%91%E6%88%EA%8D%80&ANCHOR F=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300300000001000000000000000000&ANCHOR T=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300300000001000000000000000000#1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300300000001000000000000000000 (3) To disinfect containers and packages and preserves (hereinafter in this item referred to as "containers and packages, etc.") in the event of transferring such Aquatic animals from the containers and packages, etc. to other containers and packages, etc. (4) To incinerate or bury containers and packages of such Aquatic animals in the event of discarding them. (5) To incinerate, bury and take other necessary measures for such Aquatic animals in the event of the mortality of such Aquatic animals during the period to be controlled based on the preceding article. (Inspection of Diseases subject to import quarantine) Article 1-7 The person who takes the inspection due to the provisions of Paragraph 2, Article 13-3 of the Act must submit the following listed items in writing or orally to the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in advance: (1) Name or address of the owner and the supervisor of the Aquatic animals. (2) The kind of diseases subject to import quarantine which Aquatic animals have contracted or are suspected to have contracted. (3) The kind of Aquatic animals. (4) The location of Aquatic animals. (5) The date and the time of finding where Aquatic animals have contracted or are suspected to have contracted diseases subject to import quarantine, and the conditions at the time of such finding. (6) Other referential matters. (Format of an identification) Article 1-8 The format of a certificate for identification prescribed based on Paragraph 2, Article 13-5 of the Act shall be the Appended Form 3. http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxrefer.cgi?H FILE=%8F%BA%93%F1%98Z%96@%8EO%88%EA%8EO&REF NAME=%96@%91%E6%8F%5C%8EO%8F%F0%82%CC%8EO%91%E6%93%F1%8D%80&ANCHOR F=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300300000002000000000000000000&ANCHOR T=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300300000002000000000000000000#1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300300000002000000000000000000 http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxrefer.cgi?H FILE=%8F%BA%93%F1%98Z%96@%8EO%88%EA%8EO&REF NAME=%96@%91%E6%8F%5C%8EO%8F%F0%82%CC%8EO%91%E6%93%F1%8D%80&ANCHOR F=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300300000002000000000000000000&ANCHOR T=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300300000002000000000000000000#1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300300000002000000000000000000 http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxrefer.cgi?H FILE=%8F%BA%93%F1%98Z%96@%8EO%88%EA%8EO&REF NAME=%96@%91%E6%8F%5C%8EO%8F%F0%82%CC%8C%DC%91%E6%93%F1%8D%80&ANCHOR F=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300500000002000000000000000000&ANCHOR T=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300500000002000000000000000000#1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300500000002000000000000000000 http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxrefer.cgi?H FILE=%8F%BA%93%F1%98Z%96@%8EO%88%EA%8EO&REF NAME=%96@%91%E6%8F%5C%8EO%8F%F0%82%CC%8C%DC%91%E6%93%F1%8D%80&ANCHOR F=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300500000002000000000000000000&ANCHOR T=1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300500000002000000000000000000#1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001300500000002000000000000000000