The partial amended provisions for the Regulations of 
Inspection of Imported Foods and Related Products  
 
Article 7  For any Obligatory Inspection Applicant belong to one of the 
following  situations, the competent authority shall dismiss 
his/her application for inspection:  
1. Applicants  fail to apply an inspection application pursuant 
to Article 4 or the preceding article of this regulation.  
2. Incomplete inspection application form , product inf ormation 
declaration form or other related form, and fail to make correction within a limited period.  
3. Repeated application for inspection for products mentioned 
in the previous article that have already been selected for batch inspection in accordance with  Subparagraph 2, 
Paragraph 1, Article 8.  
 
Article 19  Due to requiring five or more days for examination, or 
sampling of such products is difficult in a container yard, or the 
product is perishable, or the products in bulk and no 
warehouse in wharf, after the obligatory inspection applicant sign an affidavit of custodial responsibility, the inspection authority may issue a Notice of Prior Release for import for customs clearance .  
The products designated  for batch -by-batch inspection are not 
subject to the preceding paragraph and shall be retained at 
the border temporarily with the exception of putrescible 
products and products mentioned in Paragraph 2 of Article 10.  
 
Article 20  Products that falls into o ne of the following categories, and 
conformed to the preceding two Articles by the inspection 
authority, the authority may issue a prior release notice after 
the obligatory inspection applicant has paid a guarantee 
bond： 
1. Product subject to Batch -by-batch i nspection.  
2. Product subject to Reinforced randomly -selected batch 
inspection.  
3. Product subject to Oversee inspection that yield 
non-conforming results during the inspection period.  
4. The obligatory inspection applicant fails to finish the process of inspection  after elapse of ninety days from the 
inspection authority issued a prior release notice and 
applies for prior release notice again.  The amount of the guarantee bond shall be four -times of the 
product Duty-paying value  for the products listed in 
subparagra ph 1 of the preceding article, and double for the 
products listed in subparagraph 2 to 4 of the preceding article.  