§4403 — Title 7 Agriculture | U.S. Code

Summary

Makes the Secretary of Agriculture the main official in charge of carrying out the agreement and making sure its rules are followed. The Secretary must make sure inspections, testing, certificates, and the rules work as the agreement requires. The Secretary can take eight types of actions to do that, including naming groups to inspect or test equipment; issuing certificates that follow annex 1, appendix 1, paragraph 4 of the agreement; writing rules and suspending or denying inspectors or certificates; doing onsite checks; requiring reports and records (and access to them); telling other parties, through the Secretary of State, what general steps were taken; and taking any other needed steps to run the agreement.

Title 7, §4403

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The Secretary of Agriculture of the United States shall be the competent authority to implement the agreement. To ensure compliance with the standards specified in the agreement, the Secretary of Agriculture may—

(1)designate appropriate organizations to inspect or test equipment, or both;

(2)issue certificates of compliance in accordance with annex 1, appendix 1, paragraph 4 of the agreement;

(3)prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to implement the agreement and administer this chapter, including, but not limited to, provision for suspending or denying the designation of any organization to inspect or test equipment and for denying the issuance of certificates of compliance as may be necessary to ensure compliance with the provisions of this chapter and the regulations issued thereunder;

(4)make periodic onsite inspections of facilities and procedures used by those seeking certificates of compliance and by organizations designated to test or inspect equipment under this chapter;

(5)require submission of reports by those seeking certificates of compliance and by organizations designated to test or inspect equipment under this chapter;

(6)require maintenance of records by those seeking certificates of compliance and by organizations designated to test or inspect equipment under this chapter, such records to be made available to the Secretary upon request;

(7)inform contracting parties, through the Secretary of State of the United States, of all general measures taken in connection with the implementation of the agreement; and

(8)take such other action as may be considered appropriate to implement the agreement and administer this chapter.

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in pars. (3) to (6) and (8), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 97–325, Oct. 15, 1982, 96 Stat. 1603, known as the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 4401 of this title and Tables.

§4403 Duties of Secretary of Agriculture