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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/VEN/10
12 March 2003
(03-1408)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  VENEZUELA
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agriculture and Land / Autonomous Agricultural Health
Service (SASA)
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):
Chapter VII:  07.01
Whole potato ( Solanum spp .) plants and parts thereof (including tubers)
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
Countries where the species is found and where it is affected by the pests specified in point
6 below.
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  Resolution Restricting
the Importation of Whole Potato ( Solanum spp .) Plants and Parts Thereof, Including Tubers
(3 pages, in Spanish).
6. Description of content:  This Resolution restricts the importation of whole potato
(Solanum spp .) plants and parts thereof, including tubers, from countries where the
following pests exist:
Leptinotarsa decemlineata , Agriotes lineatus , Agriotes obscurus , Agriotes sputator ,
Agrotis segetum , Omophlus lepturoides , Nacobbus aberrans , Globodera pallida ,
Colletotrichum coccodes , Geotrichum candidum , Helicobasidium brebissonii ,
Helicobasidium purpureum , Helminthosporium solani , Oospora pustulans , Phoma exigua
var. exigua , Phoma exigua var. foveata , Pythium vexans , Potato Virus A (PVA), Potato
Virus M (PVM), Potato Virus T (PVT), Toba cco Ringspot Virus (TRSV), Tobacco Rattle
Virus (TRV), Potato Yellow Vein Disease (PYVD), Beet Curly Top Virus (BCTV), Tomato
Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV) and Potato Yellow Vein Virus (PYVV).
Importation of seeds of this species (tubers, microtubers, in-vitro plants and sexual
seeds) will be permitted, subject to a risk analysis of each individual case.
The purpose of this Resolution is to protect the horticultural production of potato
(Solanum spp .) plants and parts thereof (including tubers) from quarantine pests for
Venezuela which could affect such production as a result of the importation into the country
of living material of this horticultural species from countries where it is found and where it
is affected by these pests.G/SPS/N/VEN/10
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7. Objective and rationale: [     ] food safety,  [    ] animal health,  [     ] plant protection,
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  X ] protect territory from
other damage from pests
8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:
[    ] Codex Alimentarius Commission,  [   ] Office International des Epizooties,
[ X ] International Plant Protection Convention,  [    ] None
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Official Gazette of
the Republic of Venezuela No. 36,604, Resolution DM (Office of the Minister)/No. 688
(available in Spanish).
10. Proposed date of adoption:  14 December 1998
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  16 December 1998
12. Final date for comments: Although the measure has already been adopted and entered into
force, comments will be accepted within 60 days of submission of the notification by the
Permanent Mission to the Central Registry of Notifications for subsequent amendments.
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:
Autonomous Agricultural Health Service (SASA),
Av. Lecuna, Torre Este, 12th floor, Parque Central, El Conde,
Caracas, Venezuela.
Tel.:  (58 212) 509-0140 / 509-0184 / 509-0315 / 509-0378
Fax:  (58 212) 509-0376E-mail:  mat_sasa@yahoo.es
13. Texts available from:  [  X ] National notification authority, [     ] National enquiry
point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Autonomous Agricultural Health Service (SASA),
Av. Lecuna, Torre Este, 12th floor, Parque Central, El Conde,
Caracas, Venezuela.
Tel.:  (58 212) 509-0140 / 509-0184 / 509-0315 / 509-0378Fax:  (58 212) 509-0376
E-mail:  mat_sasa@yahoo.es