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|                                                  | *G/SPS/N/PAN/44** |
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|                                                  | 15 April 2005     |
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|                                                  | (05-1571)         |
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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:** [REPUBLIC OF                 |
| 1. | PANAMA]{.underline}                                             |
| ** |                                                                 |
|    | **If applicable, name of local government involved:**           |
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| ** | **Agency responsible:** Ministry of Agricultural Development    |
| 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):** Products   |
|    | using wood packing material in international trade              |
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| ** | **Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent     |
| 4. | relevant or practicable:**                                      |
| ** |                                                                 |
|    | Trading partners of Panama                                      |
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| ** | **Title, language and number of pages of the notified           |
| 5. | document:** Resolution No. DAL-006-ADM-05 Panama of 17 January  |
| ** | 2005 (13 pages, in Spanish) Regulating the Procedures for the   |
|    | Registration, Inspection and Approval by the National Plant     |
|    | Health Directorate of the Ministry of Agricultural Development  |
|    | of the Facilities and/or Companies Engaged in Providing the     |
|    | Treatments Approved under International Standards for           |
|    | Phytosanitary Measures (ISPM) No. 15, Guidelines for Regulating |
|    | Wood Packing Material in International Trade.                   |
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| ** | **Description of content:** This Resolution regulates the       |
| 6. | procedures for the registration, inspection and approval by the |
| ** | National Plant Health Directorate of the Ministry of            |
|    | Agricultural Development of the facilities and/or companies     |
|    | engaged in providing the treatments approved under              |
|    | International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPM)       |
|    | No. 15, Guidelines for regulating wood packing material 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          |
|    | Organisation 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:** Available in Spanish from the Enquiry Points       |
| ** | notified by Panama. Official Gazette No. 25,239 of              |
|    | Thursday 17 February 2005.                                      |
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| *  | **Proposed date of adoption:** Not indicated                    |
| *1 |                                                                 |
| 0. |                                                                 |
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| *  | **Proposed date of entry into force:** 17 February 2005         |
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| *  | **Final date for comments:** Not applicable                     |
| *1 |                                                                 |
| 2. | **Agency or authority designated to handle comments:            |
| ** | \[** X **\] National notification authority, \[**   **\]        |
|    | 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:**       |
| ** |                                                                 |
|    | Texts available from the Enquiry Points notified by Panama.     |
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|    | Enquiry Point / Competent authority                             |
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|    | Dirección Nacional de Sanidad Animal                            |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | Río Tapia, Tocumen, Panamá                                      |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | Tel./Fax: (507) 220-7979 and (507) 220-0733                     |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | Apartado postal 5390, Zona 5, Panamá                            |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | Authority designated to handle comments / Notification          |
|    | authority                                                       |
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|    | Dirección Nacional de Negociaciones Comerciales Internacionales |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | Avenida Ricardo J. Alfaro, Edison Plaza, Piso N° 2              |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | Apartado postal 378, Zona 3, Panamá                             |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | Tel.: (507) 360-0690 / 0600 / 0700, Ext. 2308-2355              |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | Fax: (507) 360-0691                                             |
|    |                                                                 |
|    | E-mail: [smoreno@mici.gob.pa]{.underline}                       |
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