Implementing Regulations of The Agriculture Law

Subject to the provisions of the Guide to the Procedures of Agricultural and Veterinary Quarantine, issued by the Ministry, the measures, precautions and procedures for protecting agricultural sector resources, and preventing entry and spread of communicable diseases, pests and epidemics, and the provisions relating to quarantine centers and operation thereof, shall be as follows: 1. The Ministry shall explore new and emerging diseases of agricultural sector resources, monitor their development, and define preventive measures for early resistance thereto, in accordance with the developments in the global health situation of transboundary epidemic diseases of agricultural sector resources. 2. The Ministry shall, in coordination with the relevant agencies, regulate quarantine procedures for agricultural sector resources to prevent the entry or spread of diseases or epidemics. 3. No agency or individual shall import agricultural sector resources from any country or a specified territory thereof that is banned by the Ministry due to its infection with any epidemic disease or contamination that could endanger the agricultural sector or public health in the Kingdom. 4. Service providers/Agricultural practitioners and all parties concerned with the 70| Implementing Regulations of the Agriculture Law agricultural sector shall immediately notify the Ministry or its designee of any suspected plant pest, communicable disease, epidemic, or unusual deaths of animal or living aquatic resources within a period not exceeding 24 hours of the actual or suspected infection. 5. The Ministry or its designee shall designate quarantine areas to prevent the spread of diseases, pests, or epidemics, and may, for this purpose, prohibit the movement of persons, agricultural sector resources or products, or means of transport from or to the quarantine areas. 6. Agricultural sector resources or products that are infected or suspected of being infected by any disease, pest, or epidemic shall not be transferred, circulated, or disposed of without obtaining authorization from the Ministry or its designee. 7. Non-endemic living aquatic resources shall not be admitted into the Kingdom's waters without obtaining the Ministry’s authorization. 8. Marine life such as, fish, shrimp, and the like, caught during the off season shall not be held, circulated or transferred. 9. The Ministry shall be entitled to safely dispose of any agricultural consignment that is illegally received, exported, or transited into the Kingdom through unapproved ports or borders, as issued by the Minister or his designee. The bearer or carrier of said consignment shall be punished pursuant to the provisions of these Regulations and in accordance with other laws and provisions issued in this regard.