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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/BOL/3
18 September 2002
(02-4959)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  BOLIVIA
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:  National Service for Agricultural Health and Food Safety
(SENASAG)
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):  Live poultry, reproductive material (eggs), poultry products (carcasses),
by-products (viscera, inedible offal, sausages, hamburgers, etc.) and derivatives (feathers,
bone, feather or meat meal, balanced feedstuffs, etc.).
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  Chile
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  National Service for
Agricultural Health and Food Safety (SENAS AG) Administrative Resolution No. 124/2002
Extending the Period of Validity of Administrative Resolution No. 077/2002 (two pages).
6. Description of content:  Suspension of the importation of the products specified in point 3
above which fail to comply with animal health requirements as regards avian influenza.
Extension of the period of validity of Administrative Resolution No. 077/2002 for120 calendar days as of the promulgation of this Administrative Resolution and/or until the
Chilean Agriculture and Livestock Service demonstrates compliance in relation to the
purpose of Resolution No. 077/2002; all the other Articles thereof remain as they stand.
7. Objective and rationale:  [     ] food safety,  [  X ] animal health,  [     ] plant protection,
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease,  [     ] protect territory from
other damage from pests
The risks arising from avian influenza being introduced in free areas and becoming
established and spreading to livestock and livestock product producing areas.  The risks
arising from the importation of the poultry and poultry products specified in point 3.  The
establishment and spread of the disease and the social and economic harm this would cause
to the country's livestock production.
8. Nature of the urgent problem(s) and reasons for urgent action:  Report by the Chilean
Agriculture and Livestock Service notifying the serological detection of avian influenza.
Need to ensure that Bolivia remains free from the disease.G/SPS/N/BOL/3
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9. International standard, guideline or recommendation:
[    ] Codex Alimentarius Commission,  [    ] Office International des Epizooties,
[    ] International Plant Protection Convention,  [    ] None
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:
10. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  National Service for
Agricultural Health and Food Safety (SENAS AG) Administrative Resolution No. 124/2002
of 9 September 2002 (available in Spanish).
11. Date of entry into force/period of application (as applicable):  Period of application:
120 days from 9 September 2002 to 9 January 2003.
12. 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:
13. Texts available from:  [  X ] National notification authority, [  X ] National enquiry
point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Dr. Luis Eduardo Alí Jiménez
National Director of SENASAG Bolivia
Av. 27 de Mayo, esquina Laureano Villar GarcíaTrinidad, Bolivia
Tel:  (591 03) 462 0151/462 2081
Fax:  (591 03) 465 2096/465 2136
E-mail: senasagdir@hotmail.com
senasagunaj@hotmail.comsenasag@sauce.ben.entelnet.bo