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Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act

the Foreign Trade Law (promulgated by Decree of the President [1994] No. 22 and amended by Decree of the President [2004] No. 15) and the Administrative Licensing Law (Decree of the President [2003] No. 7) prescribe the basic system and legal principles applicable to import licensing; Regulations on Administration of Import and Export of Commodities (Decree of the State Council [2001] No. 332); Measures for the Administration of Issuing Authorities of Import and Export Commodity Licenses (Decree of the Ministry of Commerce [2010] No. 3); Regulations on Administration of Import and Export Licenses (Decree of the Ministry of Commerce [2012] No. 1) and the Working Rules on Issuance of Import Licenses (Shang Pei Fa [2007] No. 360) .

Regulations on Control of Nuclear Export (Decree of the State Council [2006] No. 480), the Regulations on Control of Exports of Dual-use Nuclear Substances and Related Technologies (Decree of the State Council [2007] No. 484), the Regulations on Control of Exports of Missiles and Related Substances and Technologies (Decree of the State Council [2002] No. 361)

Law No. 81 on the environment , Article 12(g) and (i); and Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA) Resolution No. 116/2005

Biological Diversity Import Permits (CITMA Resolution No. 111/96 - "Regulations on Biodiversity ")

Resolution No. 67/96 on the creation of the CNSB and its functions and responsibilities; Decree Law No. 190 on biological safety, Section 1, Article 4(c); Resolution No 180/2007 - Regulations for the Granting of Biological Safety Authorization, Chapter 1, Article 6(e)
The National Centre for Biological Safety (CNSB), as the regulatory centre of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA), is responsible for granting licences for the use, testing, production, release, importation and exportation of, and research into, biological agents and their products, and organisms and parts thereof containing genetic information, in the national territory, and at the various stages of the construction of facilities posing a biological risk. This procedure is in conformity with the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

National Centre for Nuclear Safety (CNSN) - Decree-Law No. 207 of 14 February 2000 on the use of nuclear energy; CITMA Resolution No. 334 of 29 December 2011 - "Regulations governing the notification and authorization of practices and activities associated with the use of ionizing radiation sources".
Authorization is required to import ionizing radiation sources ( radioactive sources and ionizing radiation-generating equipment) . This provides a means of controlling the sources entering the country and ensuring that the use to which they will be put is proper and safe. Authorization is also required to import nuclear materials and significant components so as to verify that they are being imported for peaceful and authorized purposes, in accordance with the safeguards regime for such materials.

Licences are granted to national legal persons or foreign legal persons based or represented in the Republic of Cuba.

These procedures are in conformity with the Code of Conduct on the Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources and supplementary Guidance on the Import and Export of Radioactive Sources, of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and with the nuclear non-proliferation commitments under the treaties on non-proliferation and prohibition of nuclear weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Chemical substances - Resolution No. 159/1995 and Resolution No. 96/2004 provide for the domestic implementation of activities relating to the Rotterdam Convention and prohibit or restrict the importation and industrial use of various chemicals.