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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/BRA/68
19 August 2002
(02-4490)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   BRAZIL
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:  Secretaria de Defesa Agropecuária
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): Wheat ( Triticum spp)
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: All
wheat-exporting countries to Brazil, which, after 120 days of the publication of this
regulation, have not established phytosanitary requisites through a pest risk analysis.Exception is made for those countries that already have established specific phytosanitary
requisites for Brazil.
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document: Instrução Normativa nr.
46, dated  15 July 2002,  published in the Diário Oficial da União (Federal Official Journal)
on 16 July 2002  Seção I, p. 8, in Portuguese.  Full text may be downloaded from:
http://200.252.165.4/ddiv/LegisFito/leiusuario.asp?valor=046/2002
6. Description of content: The regulation establishes specific phytosanitary requisites for
wheat ( Triticum ssp ), according to countries of destination and of origin in Mercosur.  It
establishes that non-Mercosur countries will have to comply, for 120 days, with the
phytosanitary requisites established in Portaria nr. 643, dated 3 October 1995.  After 120
days, these countries will have to present a pest risk analysis PRA. Consignments of wheatoriginating from a country which has not established phytosanitary requisites in a specific
regulation will be sampled for phytosanitary lab exams at accredited laboratories, at the
time of inspection in the port of entry.  The costs thereof will have to be supported by the
interested party.
7. Objective and rationale:  [    ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [ X ] plant protection,
[  ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease,  [ X ]  protect territory from
other damage from pests
8. International standard, gu ideline 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: International Standard of a Phytosanitary
Measure - NIMF nr 11 (Pest Risk Analysis fo r Quarantine Pests) and  NIMF nr 2 (Pest
Risk Analysis Guidelines).G/SPS/N/BRA/68
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9. Relevant documents and language(s ) in which these are available: Diário Oficial da
União (Federal Official Journal) dated 16 July 2002, Seção I, 8 page, in Portuguese.  For a
full text download of the Instrução Norma tiva, visit the following Internet page:
http://200.252.165.4/ddiv/LegisFito/leiusuario.asp?valor=046/2002
10. Proposed date of adoption:  16 July 2002
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  16 November 2002
12. Final date for comments:   Not established
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:
Departamento de Defesa e Inspeção Vegetal (DDIV)
Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (MAPA)
Esplanada dos Ministérios, Bloco B, 3º andar
70043-900 – Brasília-DF
Fax:  +(5561) 218-2627
E-mail: ddiv@agricultura.gov.br
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority,  [ X ]  National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (MAPA)
Secretaria de Defesa Agropecuária
Esplanada dos Ministérios, Bloco D, Anexo B, Térreo e 4º andar
70843-900 – Caixa Postal 02432 – Brasília-DFFax:  +(5561) 224 3995
E-mail:  domc-sda@agricultura.gov.br