Muscat – H E Dr Fuad bin Jaafar bin Mohammed al Sajwani, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, on Monday issued a decision declaring agricultural quarantine areas in eight governorates.
This is based on the Agricultural Quarantine Law issued by Royal Decree 47/2004 and the Executive Regulations of the Agricultural Quarantine Law issued by Ministerial Decision No 32/2006, No 31/2009. Article 1 of the decision stipulates that the text of Article 1 of Ministerial decision No 31/2009 referred to above shall be replaced by the following text: “Each of the following wilayats shall be declared as areas of agricultural quarantine until the cause has ceased and a decision is issued in this regard.”
In Article 2, the decision stipulates that this decision shall be published in the official gazette and shall be effective from the day following its date of publishing.