CATEGORIES
- (29)Agriculture, Land Reform & Rural Development
- (27)Auditors & Accountants
- (6)Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment
- (5)Built Environment
- (57)Communications & Digital Technologies
- (2)Company Law
- (2)Consumer Law
- (21)Courts
- (3)Criminal Law
- (1)Cybercrimes
- (2)Disaster Management
- (13)Education & Training
- (4)Electoral Law
- (100)Environmental Law
- (4)Family Law
- (137)Financial Sector
- (4)Fisheries & Aquaculture
- (6)General Interest
- (20)Health & Safety
- (22)Home Affairs
- (3)Housing
- (17)In the Spotlight
- (1)International Co-operation
- (69)Justice & Constitutional Development
- (54)Labour Law
- (17)Legal Practice Council
- (21)Local & Provincial Government
- (24)Minerals & Energy
- (1)Monetary Policy
- (1)National Development Plan
- (18)National Treasury
- (76)New Legislation
- (15)Opportunities for Public Comment
- (6)POPIA
- (285)Parliament
- (1)Practice Management
- (4)Presidency
- (14)Property Law
- (9)Public Service
- (4)Retirement Reform
- (14)Road Accident Fund
- (22)Safety and Security
- (8)Small Business Development
- (21)Social Development
- (9)Sport, Arts & Culture
- (15)State Owned Enterprises
- (4)State of Disaster (energy)
- (19)Taxation
- (7)Tourism
- (67)Trade, Industry & Competition
- (36)Transport
- (16)Water & Sanitation
- Show All
PLANT HEALTH (PHYTOSANITARY) BILL SIGNED INTO LAW
- 13 February 2025
- Agriculture, Land Reform & Rural Development
- SA Legal Academy
The Presidency has issued a media statement announcing that the Plant Health (Phytosanitary) Bill has been signed into law. Not yet gazetted, once in force the new Act will:
- pave the way for the introduction of measures to ‘combat plant pests … of concern to domestic agriculture’ and with negative implications for:
- food security
- biosecurity, and
- access to export markets
Providing for the control of regulated pests, once operationalised the new piece of legislation will also affect the movement of plants, plant products and related articles into, within and out of South Africa.
In line with a 1998 World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement on the application of plant sanitary and phytosanitary measures (as well as the 1951 UN International Plant Protection Convention), the new statute provides for the repeal of the 1983 Agricultural Pests Act.
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
Follow us on X @SALegalAcademy (you can also join us on LinkedIn and Facebook)