The South African Department of Agriculture (SA DOA) is the national enquiry point of South Africa for the World Trade Organisation Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (WTO-SPS Agreement). In addition, the Directorate Plant Health is the National Contact Point for the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC). Members of the WTO-SPS may protect the plants within their territories from harmful foreign pests for instance by setting phytosanitary regulations. South Africa complies with its WTO-SPS obligations by harmonizing its phytosanitary regulations with international standards and basing import regulations on pest risk analysis (PRA) information provided that these are consistent with the WTO-SPS Agreement.
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