Ministry of agriculture and General Administration of quality supervision, inspection and Quarantine of the people's Republic of China

Introduction: according to the feedback from the State Grain and oil information center, the Ministry of agriculture and the General Administration of quality supervision, inspection and Quarantine of the people's Republic of China have recently informed the following about the requirements for importing soybeans: the genetically modified Office of the Ministry of agriculture has initially made clear: 1 The imported genetically modified agricultural products that arrive in Hong Kong after March 20 can only be submitted for approval after obtaining the safety certificate, that is, the implementation date of the detailed rules does not mean the deadline for signing the import contract 2 The GM management office of the Ministry of Agriculture said that it has not started to accept the application for safety assessment of GM agricultural products and the application for safety certificate of imported GM agricultural products, and said that the relevant work will be carried out as soon as possible AQSIQ has made it clear that: 1 After the Ministry of Agriculture issues the detailed rules on genetically modified soybeans, the Ministry of agriculture will make a policy explanation on the import of genetically modified soybeans, and AQSIQ will issue import approval documents and conduct port inspection in accordance with the policy 2 Before March 20, we will continue to issue import approval documents for genetically modified soybeans, but according to the regulations of the Ministry of agriculture, the transaction date of import contract for approval must be before June 6, 2001 3 When the approval document for importing soybeans is issued before March 20, it is required that the import contract be concluded before June 6, and that the soybean can arrive at the port before March 20.