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|                                                  | G/SPS/N/CHL/170** |
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|                                                  | 26 August 2004    |
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|                                                  | (04-3570)         |
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| **Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary        | Original: Spanish |
| Measures**                                       |                   |
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NOTIFICATION

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| ** | **Member to Agreement notifying:** [CHILE]{.underline}          |
| 1. |                                                                 |
| ** | **If applicable, name of local government involved:**           |
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| ** | **Agency responsible:** Agriculture and Livestock Service (SAG) |
| 2. |                                                                 |
| ** |                                                                 |
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| ** | **Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified  |
| 3. | in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers       |
| ** | should be provided in addition, where applicable):** Wood       |
|    | packaging material                                              |
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| ** | **Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent     |
| 4. | relevant or practicable:** All countries exporting goods to     |
| ** | Chile.                                                          |
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| ** | **Title, language and number of pages of the notified           |
| 5. | document:** Quarantine Regulations Governing the Entry into     |
| ** | Chile of Wood Packaging Material (3 pages, in Spanish).         |
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| ** | **Description of content:** Requirements to minimize the risk   |
| 6. | of the introduction into Chile of quarantine pests by wood      |
| ** | packaging material used in international trade.                 |
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| ** | **Objective and rationale: \[**   **\] food safety, \[**   **\] |
| 7. | animal health, \[** X **\] plant protection,**                  |
| ** |                                                                 |
|    | **\[**   **\] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, |
|    | \[**   **\] protect territory from other damage from pests**    |
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| ** | **International standard, guideline or recommendation:**        |
| 8. |                                                                 |
| ** | **\[   \] Codex Alimentarius Commission, \[   \] World          |
|    | Organization for Animal Health (OIE), \[ X \] International     |
|    | Plant Protection Convention, \[   \] None**                     |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | **If an international standard, guideline or recommendation     |
|    | exists, give the appropriate reference and briefly identify     |
|    | deviations:** International Standard for Phytosanitary Measures |
|    | (ISPM) No. 15 of the International Plant Protection Convention  |
|    | (IPPC).                                                         |
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| ** | **Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are         |
| 9. | available:** Draft Agriculture and Livestock Service Resolution |
| ** | (available in Spanish).                                         |
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| *  | **Proposed date of adoption:** 1 June 2005                      |
| *1 |                                                                 |
| 0. |                                                                 |
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| *  | **Proposed date of entry into force:** 1 June 2005              |
| *1 |                                                                 |
| 1. |                                                                 |
| ** |                                                                 |
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| *  | **Final date for comments:** 29 October 2004                    |
| *1 |                                                                 |
| 2. | **Agency or authority designated to handle comments: \[**       |
| ** |  **\] National notification authority, \[** X **\] National     |
|    | enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if    |
|    | available) of other body:**                                     |
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| *  | **Texts available from: \[**   **\] National notification       |
| *1 | authority, \[** X **\] National enquiry point, or address, fax  |
| 3. | number and E‑mail address (if available) of other body:**       |
| ** |                                                                 |
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