Orchid to Singapore

Cymbidium spp

Common Name: Orchid

Conditions:

Phytosanitary certificate required. If accompanied by potting medium, the medium has to be certified free from plant parasitic nematodes and endorsed as such on the phytosanitary certificate.

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Whole Plants to Singapore

Plants without growing media

Conditions: Phytosanitary import permit not required. Phytosanitary certificate required. Post-entry Inspection – At premises pre-approved by AVA.

Plants with growing media

Conditions: Phytosanitary import permit not required. Phytosanitary certificate and additional declaration required. Treatment is applicable to growing media only. Growing media must be treated prior to planting. Treatment details must be identified upon the phytosanitary certificate. Post-entry Inspection – At premises pre-approved by AVA.

Additional declaration: “Media is free of plant parasitic nematodes”

Treatment: 3% Carbofuran granules (direct application: 30gm per square metre)
Or
other equivalent measures such as Methyl bromide fumigation at 130gm per cubic for 48 hours
Or
steam sterilization at 121°C for 30 minutes

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Singapore General Requirements

General Information

For enquires about this standard email the Plant Exports Group:

plantexports@maf.govt.nz

To help Plant Exports process your email please record in the subject line of your email descriptive keywords which are relevant to your enquiry i.e. ICPR enquiry-Country-specific details.

For urgent enquiries phone, fax or email the Plant Exports Group

• Telephone: 0800 008 333 (selecting option 3, then option 4) Fax : 64 4 894 0733; or
• Email: PlantExports

Scope

As there are no New Zealand legislative requirements for certification of exported plant products, the technical phytosanitary requirements are determined by the importing country for plant produce being imported into their country. In this respect, ICPRs are MAF’s summary of the importing country’s legal requirements and thus forms a basis upon which export phytosanitary certification is provided.

Where an importing country operates on the basis of issuing import permits to their importers, the import permit conditions take precedence over any technical conditions contained in the MAF ICPR for that country.

This standard specifies Singapore's phytosanitary import requirements for plant products being exported from New Zealand. If a commodity or commodity group is not identified within this ICPR exporters should contact:

• Singapore directly to ascertain requirements

or

• MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ). (Plant Exports)

Please note, the determination and provision of phytosanitary requirements, for a commodity not identified within an ICPR, is undertaken on a cost recovery basis. A link to the list of Plant Exports Fees and Charges is available on http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/regs/exports/plants/fees

Users of this document are strongly advised to review all sections of the ICPR for the determination of a commodity's phytosanitary requirements.

Phytosanitary Legislation

The following legislation controls the importation of plants and plant materials into Singapore:

• Control of Plants Act - Importation Rules (updated 2007)

General Requirements

Prohibitions

No commodities are specifically prohibited entry into Singapore from New Zealand.

NOTE: Where a consignment of a regulated product is imported;

• without a phytosanitary certificate
• or the consignment is found to be infested with a non-quarantine pest
• or the consignment is found to be infested with a pest (other than a regulated pest) which is not native to Singapore and is determined to be potentially damaging to plants or plant ecosystems in Singapore

The Singapore authorities may prohibit the consignment or allow entry under terms and conditions determined by the Singapore authorities.

Phytosanitary Import Permits

Singapore has stopped issuing advance hard copy import permits, Permits to entry will be issued on arrival.

The import permit is in the form of the Cargo Clearance Permit (CCP). All the stipulated import health requirements have to be fulfilled before the CCP is approved. The CCP is valid for two weeks and a fee of S$11 is levied per permit – Current as of 16/11/2010

Phytosanitary import permits are required for the importation of the following commodity classes from New Zealand and will be issued on arrival:

1. All living Annelida, Arthropoda, Mollusca, Nematoda and micro-organisms
2. All living modified organisms
3. All biological control agents
4. Organic fertilizers

Phytosanitary import permits are not required for the importation of the following commodity classes from New Zealand:

• fresh fruit and vegetables
• fresh cut flowers and foliage
• grains, spices and other stored products
• nursery stock
• tissue culture

Phytosanitary import permits and general conditions of import may be requested from:

Plant Regulatory Branch - Plant Health
Agri & Food and Veterinary Authority
Sembawang Research Station
Lorong Chencharu
Singapore 769194
Tel: 67519842/843
Email: ava_phytosanitary@ava.gov.sg
Website www.ava.gov.sg/AgricultureFisheriesSector/ImportExportTransOfPlants

Operating Hours

Mon - Thu 8.30am - 1.00pm 2.00pm - 6.00pm

Fri 8.30am - 1.00pm 2.00pm - 5.30pm

Sat 8.30am to 12.30pm

Sun and Public Holidays Closed

Phytosanitary Certificates

Phytosanitary certificates are required to accompany the following commodity classes from New Zealand:

• Nursery stock
• Seed for sowing
• Mushroom spawn
• Tissue culture

The phytosanitary certificate shall be issued not more than 14 days prior to the date of shipment.

Phytosanitary certificates are not required to accompany the following commodity classes from New Zealand:

• Fresh fruit and vegetables
• Fresh cut flowers
• Grains, spices and other stored products

Quarantine Pests - Regulated Pests and Non-Quarantine Pests

Part 1 (Quarantine Pests - Regulated Pests)

Part II Non-quarantine pests

Maximum Pest Limits (MPLs)

Please note; for all commodities exported to Singapore either requiring, or where the exporter elects to request, a MAF phytosanitary certificate, the following levels have been set by MAF to facilitate exports while still meeting the importing country’s minimum requirements for specified quarantine pests and soil.

Quarantine pests* specified by Singapore	0.5%
Soil (for all plant products excluding seed for sowing)	25g/600units

*Quarantine pests for Singapore include organisms identified within:

• quarantine pests section of this ICPR (section 2.4)
• additional declarations
• phytosanitary import permit

Inspection on Arrival

All imported consignments are subject to inspection on arrival at premises pre-approved by Agri & Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) for the detection of the specified quarantine pests (refer section 2.4 Part 1.).

Sampling Rates (On arrival)

Not specified by Singapore.

Ports of Entry

Not restricted.

Transit Requirements

Not specified by Singapore.

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