8. Certification requirement
A planting material, fruit, vegetable, plant product, plant pest, live beneficial organisms, or soil shall not be imported into Saint Lucia unless a phyto-sanitary certificate has been issued for that planting material, fruit, vegetable, plant pest, live beneficial organism or soil by the plant health authority of the exporting country which conforms to the model adopted by the International Plant Protection Convention of 1951 and to any amendment thereto or to any Convention in substitution therefor to which Saint Lucia has adhered.