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Plant and Animal Health Law - Decree 524
Start Date:
12/12/1995
End Date:
N/A
Description
El Salvador's Plant and Animal Health Law establishes the fundamental provisions for the health protection of plants and animals, granting the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock competencies for diagnosis, epidemiological surveillance, quarantine control, registration of agricultural inputs and establishments. It creates the Plant and Animal Health Advisory Councils to strengthen coordination and advice to the MAG, and establishes mechanisms for the prevention, control, and eradication of pests and diseases. It contemplates procedures for the control of imports and exports, as well as for phytosanitary and zoosanitary certification, including a regime of infractions and sanctions to ensure compliance with legal provisions.
Iniciative Type
Action scope
Sectors:
Thematic Areas:
Countries:
Instruments:
- Technical, Sectoral, or Advisory Tables
- Early warning systems
- Harmonization of standards and regulations
- Technical assistance to producers
- Intersectoral and interinstitucional coordination
- Voluntary standards
- Strategies, plans, policies or guidelines; sectoral or national
- Inspection and control
- Sanitary, phytosanitary and biosafety standards
- Strategic planning
- Regulations, standards and legal frameworks
Resultados:
- Food access
- Malnutrition prevention
- Animal disease control
- Plant health
- Safe trade
- Biodiversity
- Trade competitiveness
- Plant disease control
- Market efficiency
- Public policy development and implementation
- Institutional capacity building
- Information generation
- Improved productivity
- Improvement in technical assistance and rural extension services
- Animal health
- Food and nutritional security
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