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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/PER/23
5 February 2001
(01-0551)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  PERU
If applicable, name of local government involved:           
2. Agency responsible:  National Agrarian Health Service
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where
applicable).  Citrus plants.  Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent
relevant or practicable:  Countries which export this plant species to Peru.
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document:  Regulations Providing for the
Introduction by SENASA of the "Pest-free Area Maintenance Plan", to Avoid Propagationof Citrus Pests (1 page)
5. Description of content:  Introduces the "pest-free area maintenance plan" by means of
schemes for the permanent control and surveillance of areas of citrus production, as well as
collection centres, points of sale or other locations which might present a phytosanitary risk,
with the aim of ensuring and maintaining the country's phytosanitary situation of freedom
from the pests "citrus black spot", Guignardia citricarpa kiely,  "sweet orange scab", Elsinoe
australis Bitancourt & Jenkins  and "citrus canker", Xanthomonas axonopodis pv Citri
(Hanse) .
This "pest-free area maintenance plan" is also directed to establishing the
quarantine control measures needed to prevent illegal entry of hosts of the above-mentioned
pests.
6. Objective and rationale: [     ] food safety,  [     ] animal health,  [     ] plant protection,
[    ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  X ] protect territory from
other damage from pests           
7. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [     ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:  WTO Agreement on the Application of
Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, International Plant Protection Convention
8. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Published in the
Official Journal " El Peruano " (available in Spanish)
9. Proposed date of adoption:  18 January 2001
10. Proposed date of entry into force:  18 January 2001G/SPS/N/PER/23
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11. Final date for comments:
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:
Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agraria (National Agrarian Health Service)
Tel:  +(511) 422 8026
Fax:  +(511) 433 7802
E-mail: ecarbonell@senasa.minag.gob.pe
adelarosa@senasa.gob.pe
Dirección General de Sanidad Vegetal (Directorate-General of Plant Health)
Fax:  +(511) 433 8048/433 2851E-mail:  jbarrenechea@senasa.gob.pe
12. Texts available from: [  X ] National notification authority, [     ] National enquiry point
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agraria (National Agrarian Health Service)
Tel:  +(511) 422 8026
Fax:  +(511) 433 7802E-mail: ecarbonell@senasa.minag.gob.pe
Dirección General de Sanidad Vegetal (Directorate-General of Plant Health)
Fax:  +(511) 433 8048/433 2851
E-mail:  adelarosa@senasa.gob.pe
 jbarrenechea@senasa.gob.pe