G/SPS/N/PER/925  
4 May 2021 
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member : PERU 
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible : Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agraria, SENASA  (National Agrarian 
Health Service)  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO ; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable) : Difocol 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  
[X] All trading partners  
[ ] Specific regions or countries:  
5. Title of the notified document : Resolución Directoral Nº 0021 -2021-MIDAGRI -
SENASA -DIAIA  (Directorial Resolution No. 0021-2021-MIDAGRI -SENASA -DIAIA) 
Language(s) : Spanish Number of pages : 2 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2021/SPS/PER/21_3223_00_s.pdf  
6. Description of content : The notified Directorial Resolution prohibits the registration, 
importation, manufacture, local formulation, distribution, marketing, storage, packaging 
and use of commercial agricultural pesticide formulations containing the active ingredient 
difocol, as well as derivatives and compounds formulated with this active in gredient, from 
16 April 2 021. 
7. Objective and rationale : [X] food safety , [ ] animal health , [ ] plant protection , 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.  
8. Is there a relevant international standard ? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) : 
[ ] World Organisation for Ani mal Health (OIE) (e.g. T errestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) : 
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. I SPM No.) : 
[X] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[ ] Yes [ ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:  G/SPS/N/PER/925  
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  9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 16 April 2 021 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : 15 May 2 021 
11. Proposed date of entry into force : [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : 16 April 2 021 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments : [ ]  Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments : [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point . Address, fax number and email address 
(if ava ilable) of other body:  
13. Text(s) available from : [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point . Address, fax number and email address (if available) of other body:  
José Ortiz Rojas  
Director de la Subdirección de Insumos Agrícolas  (Director of the Sub -Directorate of 
Agricultural Inputs)  
Av. La Molina Nº 1915, Lima 12, Lima, Peru  
Email : jortiz@senasa.gob.pe  
 
Gerard Blair Arze  
Especialista de la Subdirección de Insumos Agrícolas  (Specialist at the Sub -Directorate of 
Agricultural Inputs)  
Dirección de Insumos Agropecuarios e Inocuidad Agroalimentaria  (Directorate of 
Agricultural Inputs and Agri -Food Safety), SENASA  
Av. La Molina Nº 1915, Lima 12, Lima, Peru  
Email : gblair@senasa.gob.pe