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on the appropriate conditions for shipping, transporting, unloading and storing so as
to ensure the maintenance of the integrity of the goods and, consequently, their
quality, safety and efficacy.
From the moment of registration of the import licensing, SISCOMEX provides
information on the status of non-automatic licensing of the goods being imported
and on the need for concession by ANVISA.
Any application for a service by ANVISA, including the sanitary inspection of imported
goods, must be performed by means of an “electronic application.” Prior to the
application, the importing company must register at ANVISA’s website: https://
www.anvisa.gov.br/peticionamento/sat/global/sistemas.asp. The SISCOMEX import
application is also available at this same webpage.
III.4.4.3. Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA)
MAPA (Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento) is the agency responsible
for inspecting and controlling the international transit of agricultural goods and supplies
in airports, ports, border posts and special customs, with a view to inhibiting the entry
of pests and diseases that may pose a threat to the health of national plants and herds;
for ensuring that incoming products of animal or vegetable origin, as well as agricultural
and ranching supplies are in conformity with the established standards; and for issueing
phytozoosanitary and sanitary certification to products that are exported.
The Decree no. 5,741, dated 30 April 2006, determines that agricultural and ranching
surveillance activities for animals, plants, supplies (including animal food), animal and
plant products, as well as cardboard and wooden packaging which are imported in
customs transit and exported by Brazil are under the exclusive responsibility of MAPA.
Authorizations to import animals, plants, their products, by-products and parts, residues
of economic value and farm supplies have to be previously requested from the
competent technical sectors of the Agricultural and Ranching Surveillance Secretariat
(SDA) of MAPA - or from the Federal Superintendence of Agriculture in the jurisdiction of
the interested party in compliance with the norms of registration in Siscomex.
Supervision and inspection will be conducted when the goods arrive, and it is up to
the Agricultural and Ranching Surveillance Services (SVA) and the Units of Agricultural
and Ranching Surveillance (UVAGROs), located in airports, ports, border posts and
special customs, to perform the agricultural and ranching surveillance activities, such
as conducting tests in animals, animal and plant products and by-products, in animal
and plant genetic material, in animal feeding products, in veterinary products,
pesticides, their components and the like, fertilizers, as well as bedding, boxes, and
wooden packaging and storing material.
Published in November 2006, Normative Instruction no. 36, which approves the new
Manual for Operational Procedures in International Agricultural Surveillance, aims to
discipline, guide and explain the principles determined by the existing law and to
standardize the actions carried out by the Federal Agricultural and Ranching
Supervisors in the inspection and supervision of products under the responsibility of
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