Standard Procedure for Lifting a Ban on Importation of Plants into Japan (Official Directive No. 5 of MAFF)

MAFF has revised the standard procedure when Japan receives a request from a country to lift the ban on importation of plants of which Japan prohibits the import in accordance with the Plant Protection Law (Law No. 151 of 1950).The purpose of the revision is to reflect procedures being newly implemented and thereby to increase transparency of the procedure, while taking into account relevant international standards, as the previous version was developed more than 20 years ago (in 1999).