WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/MEX/172
4 September 2001
(01-4216)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  MEXICO
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries
and Food
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers may be provided in addition, whereapplicable).  Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or
practicable:  Plants, products and by-products
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document:  Changes to Mexican Official
Standard NOM-005-FITO-1995, Establishing External Quarantine to Prevent the
Introduction of  Khapra Beetle (3 pages, in Spanish)
5. Description of content:  The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development,
Fisheries and Food has the authority to prevent the introduction, establishment and spread
of pests which adversely affect plants and plant products and by-products, as well as the
causal agents of phytosanitary problems.  It also has the authority to propose changes to orto cancel Mexican Official Standards when the scientific assumptions regarding pests have
changed.
Paragraph 4.1 concerning products subject to complete quarantine has been
amended to read as follows:
4.1 Products subject to complete quarantine
The introduction and transport through Mexico to a third country destination of the
plant products listed below, originating and consigned from the following countries, areprohibited:
Products
Beans, rape or colza, wheat, sunflower, maize, cotton, rice, hemp, sorghum,
soyabeans (soya), and flax.
Countries
(1) Europe:  Kingdom of Spain, Czech Republic, Republic of Austria, Slovak Republic,
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Hellenic Republic.
(2) Africa:  Burkina Faso, Burma, Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Kingdom
of Morocco, The Arab Republic of Egypt, De mocratic and People's Republic of Algeria,
Somali Democratic Republic, Republic of the Gambia, Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, Republicof Mali, Republic of Niger, Republic of Senegal, Republic of Tunisia, Republic of Zambia,
Republic of Zimbabwe, Republic of Sudan, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Islamic Republic
of Mauritania, Republic of Angola.G/SPS/N/MEX/172
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5. Description of content:  (cont'd)
(3) Asia:  The State of Israel, Japan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic,
Islamic State of Afghanistan, Republic of Cy prus, Republic of Iraq, Republic of India,
Kingdom of Thailand, Republic of Turkey, Republic of Yemen, Islamic Republic of Iran,
Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Republic of Lebanon, Democratic People's Republic ofKorea, People's Republic of Bangladesh, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, The
Union of Myanmar.
(4) Oceania: Federation of Malaysia, Republic of the Philippines, Republic of
Indonesia.4.2 Products subject to partial quarantine
A partial quarantine is established for the following plant products liable to
infestation with Khapra beetle, originating and consigned from the countries listed above:
Product Group:  Nutmeg;  wheat or wheatmeal flour;  rye flour;  corn flour/maize flour;
rice flour;  cereal flours;  flour, meal and powder of potatoes;  flour, meal and powder of
dried leguminous vegetables;  cassava flour/manioc flour;  flour, meal, and powder of sago;
cashew flour;  flour, meal and powder of fruit;  soyabean meal;  cotton meal;  copal;  natural
gums, resins, gum resins, and balsams;  sweet biscuits;  waffles and wafers;  mustard flour;oil cakes, and other solid residues, whether or not ground, or in the form of pellets, resulting
from the extraction of soya oils;  natural rubber;   synthetic rubber;  wood chips or particles,
sawdust, wood waste and scraps, whether or not agglomerated into logs, briquettes, pellets,
or similar form (used for packaging);  shelled brazil nuts;  shelled cashew nuts; shelled
almonds;  shelled walnuts;  dried apples;  dried cherries;  sunflower flour;  flours and mealsof oilseeds and oleaginous fruits;  dried apricots (not stoned);  dried plums;  dried pears;
dried peaches (not stoned);  lucerne (alfalfa) meal and pellets;  lac;  arabic gum.
Products group : Dried leguminous vegetables (shelled);  Brazil nuts (unshelled);  cashew
nuts (unshelled);  almonds (unshelled);  walnut s (unshelled);  Cucurbit seeds;  lucerne hay;
jute and other textile based fibres of the heading 53.03 (used only);  sesame.
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 [  X ].
If a international standard, guideline or re commendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:
8. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Official Journal
(Diario Oficial de la Federación ) 31 May 2001 (available in Spanish).
9. Proposed date of adoption:  1 June 2001
10. Proposed date of entry into force:  1 June 2001
11. Final date for comments:  Not applicable
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:G/SPS/N/MEX/172
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12. Texts available from: [  X ] National notification authority, [   ] National enquiry point
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Website http://www.economia.gob.mex/normas (Standards catalogue)