It must not be introduced, released or discarded without permission

Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and the General Administration of Customs jointly released the "Administrative Measures for Migraphic Invasion Species" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures"). The Measures clearly require that no unit or individual may introduce, release or discard foreign species without approved.

The "Measures" pointed out that foreign invasion species refer to foreign species that passed the colonization and pose a threat or harm to the ecosystem, habitat, and species, affecting my country's ecological environment, and harming the sustainable development of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery. The invasion of foreign species is related to national food security, biological security and ecological safety. In recent years, with the increasing frequent commodity trade and personnel exchanges in my country, the spread of foreign invasion species has become more diverse and concealed. Most invasive species can find a suitable living environment in my country. Once it is fixed, it is difficult to eradicate the difficulty and seriously affect the invasion land. The ecological environment damage the sustainable development of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries. The general consideration of strengthening the management of foreign invasion species is to adhere to risk prevention, source control, comprehensive governance, collaborative cooperation, public participation, highlight key areas and key links, establish and improve management systems, strengthen joint control, joint control, group prevention and group governance, comprehensively improve The management level of foreign invasion species.

The "Measures" mainly put forward clear requirements for strengthening the source prevention from three aspects. The first is to regulate the management of species. Due to special needs such as variety cultivation to introduce foreign species such as crops and forest seeds seedlings, and aquatic seedlings, they shall apply for import approval and quarantine approval in accordance with the approval authority. If it belongs to the first introduction, the introduction unit shall conduct risk analysis and submit a risk assessment report to the approval department. The second is to strengthen port prevention and control. Customs should strengthen the prevention and control of the port, crack down on illegal introduction, carry, send, and smuggle foreign species, and deal with the discovered foreign invasive species in accordance with the law. The third is to strengthen domestic quarantine. The competent authorities of agricultural rural areas at or above the county level shall strengthen the supervision of quarantine supervision of cross -regional transportation crops and forest grass seedlings, plant products, aquatic seedlings, etc. to prevent foreign invasion and spread.

How to stipulate foreign invasion of species monitoring and early warning? In order to strengthen the monitoring and early warning of foreign invasion species and timely grasp the condition of foreign invasion species in a timely manner, the "Measures" mainly made three aspects. The first is to carry out investigation and monitoring. Establish a census and monitoring system for foreign invasion, organize a national census every ten years, build a national foreign invasion monitoring network, and carry out normalized monitoring. The second is to issue early warning forecasts. The competent departments such as agricultural rural areas, forestry grasslands, and customs at the provincial level shall strengthen monitoring information sharing, analyze and judge the occurrence of foreign invasion species, spread the trend, timely release early warning forecasts, and guide prevention and control. The third is to regulate information release. The overall situation of foreign invasion of foreign invasion was uniformly released by the relevant departments of the agricultural and rural ministries. The occurrence of external invasion species in relevant areas shall be released by relevant departments of the State Council in accordance with their responsibilities and power. Relevant departments of the provincial agricultural and rural authorities uniformly released the situation of invasion species outside the administrative area.

The Measures will be implemented from August 1, 2022. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will work together to conscientiously grasp the promotion and implementation of the "Measures", strengthen the management of foreign invasion, and focus Foreign invasion of species census and strengthening the treatment of foreign invasion species.

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