# Use of Electronic Information Exchange Systems; Miscellaneous Amendments
> **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** · Final rule. · Published 2016-06-21 · Effective 2016-06-21 · 81 FR 40149
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-14616
- **Category:** trade
- **Sub-agency:** Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 40149
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 319
- **Publication date:** 2016-06-21
- **Effective date:** 2016-06-21
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. APHIS-2016-0016
## Abstract

We are amending our regulations regarding the importation or exportation of animals and animal products and plants and plant products to address instances where the current regulations require the use of a hard-copy form or specify that a particular document must be submitted in writing. This final rule amends the regulations to provide the flexibility needed for persons to take advantage of electronic systems when a regulation has a limiting requirement. The amendments we are making in this final rule are not to mandate the use of electronic systems or preclude the use of paper documents; rather, they address those instances where our regulations specify a submission method to the exclusion of other methods.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/06/21/2016-14616/use-of-electronic-information-exchange-systems-miscellaneous-amendments)
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