Regulations for Approving Imports of Designated Plant Regulated Articles Article 4

After being reviewed and approved by the central competent authority and the import permit is issued, the application item of Article 2 shall be imported in accordance with the permit.The import permit is valid within six months from the day issued.If the approved plan of use, post-entry quarantine management program, routes and means of transportation, both domestically and internationally, and/or packing methods or related document or information of Paragraph 1 are changed, the importer shall submit application with the changed document or information to the central competent authority for approval.The approved duration of designed plant regulated articles or their derivatives shall not exceed five years. The approved duration of the intended use for legal deposit shall not exceed thirty years.The importer may apply for approval to the central competent authority to extend the duration thirty days prior to expiration date; the extension period shall not exceed five years. Application for extending the duration of exhibitive use may be done three days prior to the expiration date; the extension shall not be longer than the approved exhibition plan.To apply for an extension under the preceding paragraph, the operation records of usage, reason of extension, and follow-up safety quarantine management program shall be submitted. The plant quarantine authority may, if it deems necessary, dispatch inspectors to conduct an on-site verification.