G/SPS/GEN/2221   
5 April 2024  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: Spanish  
 
  
MEASURES AIMED AT ESTABLISHING REGIONALIZATION CRITERIA  
IN RELATION TO QUARANTINE PESTS FOR CHILE  
COMMUNICATION FROM CHILE  
The following communication, received on 2 April 2024, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Chile. 
 
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1.  Pursuant to Article 5 and Article 6 of and Annex A, paragraph 3(c), to the Agreement on the 
Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, Chile hereby informs WTO Members of the 
regionalization criteria in relation to quarantine pests for Chile, draw ing particular attention to the 
following:  
i. The Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG) is the authority responsible for protecting the 
country's phytosanitary resources.  
ii. As a Member signatory to the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary 
Measures, Chile must ensure that its phytosanitary measures are adapted to the regional 
characteristics of the areas from which the product originated and to which the product is 
destined.  
iii. Article VII of the 1997 International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), to which Chile is a 
signatory, stipulates that contracting parties shall establish and update lists of regulated 
pests, using scientific names, and make such lists available to the S ecretary, to regional 
plant protection organizations of which they are members and, on request, to other 
contracting parties.  
iv. To this end, the SAG conducts pest risk analyses and regularly updates Chile's list of 
quarantine pests and hosts of quarantine pests, which are part of the phytosanitary 
regulations whose requirements regulated articles have to meet, where applicable, in order 
to enter the country.  
v. As a result of its activities, the SAG's agricultural and forest plant surveillance programme 
has reported the presence in the country of the following pests: Diaspis boisduvalli , citrus 
tatter leaf virus, Elasmopalpus lignosellus , Eutypa lata , high plains virus, Otiorhynchus 
ovatus , Pseudomonas syringae  pv. morsprunorum , Rhizoecus falcifer , Rhodococcus fascians  
and wheat streak mosaic virus.  
vi. The distribution of pests present in part of the national territory, and subject to official control 
for the purposes of containment, suppression or eradication, varies depending on the official 
control measures applied and the biology of the pest.  
vii. The most recent pest risk analyses showed that the following pests, which are absent from 
Chile, qualify as quarantine pests, as they have high introduction and economic impact 
potential for the country: Achyranthes aspera , Agrotis segetum , Bassia scoparia , 
Bradybaena similaris , Candidatus Phytoplasma phoenicium , capsicum chlorosis virus , 
Chenopodium polyspermum  (Syn: Lipandra polysperma ), citrus yellow vein clearing virus , 
Clavibacter nebraskensis , Cyclachaena xanthiifolia  (Syn: Iva xanthifolia ), Deudorix 
Isocrates , Emex australis , Eobania vermiculata , Eragrostis plana , Frankliniella intonsa , 
Garella musculana  (Syn: Erschoviella musculana ), Heliotropium europaeum , Monacha 
cartusiana , Monilinia polystroma , Ophiognomonia clavigignenti -juglandacearum , Pantoea 
stewartii  subsp. stewartii , Persicaria nepalensis , Phenacoccus avenae , Phytophthora 
niederhauserii , Pochazia shantungensis , Resseliella citrifrugis , Rhizoctonia tuliparum , Salsola 
vermiculata  (Syn: Nitrosalsola vermiculata ), Sarasinula plebeian , Spodoptera littoralis , 
Stenocarpella macrospora , Stenocarpella maydis , Trogoderma inclusum , Tyloderma G/SPS/GEN/2221  
 
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  fragariae , Urochloa panicoides , Vryburgia amaryllidis , Xanthomonas axonopodis  pv. punicae  
and Yponomeuta padella  (Syn: Yponomeuta padellus ). 
viii. The current measures and pest lists are set out in SAG Resolution No. 1.376 of 2024  
amending Resolution No. 3.080 of 2003 establishing regionalization criteria in relation to 
quarantine pests for Chile, which is available in Spanish at:  https://www.sag.cl/ambitos -de-
accion/plagas -cuarentenarias -ausentes  or Resolución  1376_2024_Plagas Cuarentenarias.pdf 
(sag.gob.cl)  or which may be requested by email from the Chile SPS  enquiry point 
(sps.chile@sag.gob.cl ). 
2.  Lastly, Chile states that this communication is being made for the purposes of transparency, 
without prejudice to the country's rights and obligations under the SPS Agreement.  
 
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