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 	<li style="text-align: left;">Development and review of the regulatory framework for the tea sub sector;</li>
 	<li style="text-align: left;">Licensing of tea manufacturers and registration of tea dealers along the value chain;</li>
 	<li style="text-align: left;">Compliance monitoring, inspections/audits of tea factories and tea traders to enforce relevant laws and standards;</li>
 	<li style="text-align: left;">Surveillance inspections on illegal dealings in tea;</li>
 	<li style="text-align: left;">Development and review of tea Standards in collaboration with Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) and other international standards development bodies;</li>
 	<li style="text-align: left;">Tea quality analysis to enhance market access.</li>
 	<li style="text-align: left;">Capacity building and technical assistance to Counties.</li>
 	<li style="text-align: left;">Pre-import conformity assessment and approval of tea imports;</li>
 	<li style="text-align: left;">Dissemination of information to stakeholders on tea matters.</li>
 	<li style="text-align: left;">Consultation with tea industry stakeholders in the development of policies and regulations;</li>
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 	<li>The Crops Act 2013</li>
 	<li>The Agriculture and Food Authority Act 2013</li>
 	<li>The Crops (Tea Industry) Regulations, 2020</li>
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The Crops Act and AFA Act and the tea regulations provide the regulatory framework for the development, promotion and regulation of the Tea industry for the benefit of tea growers and other stakeholders in the tea industry.

The enactment of Agriculture and Food Authority Act, 2013 and the Crops Act, 2013 necessitated the formulation of regulations for the tea sub sector to operationalize the Crops Act. The tea industry regulations were gazetted by the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives Hon. Peter Munya, MGH on 22nd May 2020 vide gazette notice NO 97 of 2020.

<strong>Scope of application of the Tea Regulations</strong>

These Regulations shall apply with respect to tea produced and marketed in Kenya, and imported or exported into and out of Kenya.

Object and purpose of these Regulations.

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