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| **[World Trade]{.smallcaps}**                    |                   |
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|                                                  | **G/SPS/N/ECU/2** |
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|                                                  | 15 April 2005     |
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|                                                  | (05-1568)         |
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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:** [ECUADOR]{.underline}        |
| 1. |                                                                 |
| ** | **If applicable, name of local government involved:**           |
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| ** | **Agency responsible:** Ecuadorian Agricultural Health Service  |
| 2. | (SESA)                                                          |
| ** |                                                                 |
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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):**            |
|    | Phytosanitary measures to ensure the phytosanitary quality of   |
|    | wood packaging material in international trade                  |
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| ** | **Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent     |
| 4. | relevant or practicable:** All countries which trade            |
| ** | agricultural products with Ecuador                              |
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| ** | **Title, language and number of pages of the notified           |
| 5. | document:** Resolution No. 012, published in *Registro Oficial* |
| ** | (Official Journal) No. 248 of 9 January 2004 (19 pages, in      |
|    | Spanish).                                                       |
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| ** | **Description of content:** This Resolution establishes the     |
| 6. | technical procedures for the phytosanitary measures applicable  |
| ** | to wood packaging material in international trade and the use   |
|    | of the mark attesting to the application thereof.               |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | Its objective is to establish the procedures for the            |
|    | certification of raw wood packaging material prepared or        |
|    | processed in the treatment facilities approved by the           |
|    | Ecuadorian Agricultural Health Service (SESA).                  |
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| ** | **Objective and rationale: \[**   **\] food safety, \[**   **\] |
| 7. | animal health, \[**   **\] plant protection,**                  |
| ** |                                                                 |
|    | **\[**   **\] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, |
|    | \[** X **\] 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 Standards for Phytosanitary         |
|    | Measures (ISPM) No. 15                                          |
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| ** | **Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are         |
| 9. | available:** Resolution No. 012, published in *Registro         |
| ** | Oficial* (Official Journal) No. 248 of 9 January 2004 (19       |
|    | pages, in Spanish).                                             |
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| *  | **Proposed date of adoption:** 24 January 2005                  |
| *1 |                                                                 |
| 0. |                                                                 |
| ** |                                                                 |
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| *  | **Proposed date of entry into force:** 24 January 2005          |
| *1 |                                                                 |
| 1. |                                                                 |
| ** |                                                                 |
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| *  | **Final date for comments:** 60 days as of the date of          |
| *1 | notification                                                    |
| 2. |                                                                 |
| ** | **Agency or authority designated to handle comments:            |
|    | \[** X **\] National notification authority, \[** X **\]        |
|    | National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail       |
|    | address (if available) of other body:**                         |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | Servicio Ecuatoriano de Sanidad Agropecuaria, SESA              |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | Av. Amazonas y Eloy Alfaro, Ed. MAG, piso 9                     |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | Quito, Ecuador                                                  |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | **Enquiry point:**                                              |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | Contact person: Edwin Cáceres Acosta                            |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | E-mail: [ecaceres@mag.gov.ec]{.underline} and                   |
|    | [lherrera@mag.gov.ec]{.underline}                               |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | Tel.: (593) 2 2567-232, ext. 116 and 105                        |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | Fax: (593) 2 2567-232, ext. 201                                 |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | Web site: http://www.sesa.gov.ec                                |
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| *  | **Texts available from: \[**   **\] National notification       |
| *1 | authority, \[**   **\] National enquiry point, or address, fax  |
| 3. | number and E‑mail address (if available) of other body:**       |
| ** |                                                                 |
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