G/SPS/N/CHL/784  
8 February  2024 
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original:  Spanish  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member : CHILE 
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible : Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero , SAG (Agriculture and Livestock 
Service)  
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) : Strawberries ( Fragaria  x ananassa ) 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  
[ ] All trading partners  
[X] Specific regions or countries : United States of America  
5. Title of the notified document : Establece requisitos fitosanitarios de importación para 
plantas de frutilla (Fragaria x ananassa) procedentes de Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, 
modifica resoluciones No 5.479 de 2006 y No 1.423 de 2010  (Phytosanitary requirements 
governing the importation of strawberry plants ( Fragaria  x ananassa ) coming from the 
United States of America, amendment to Resolutions No . 5.479 of 2006 and Resolution 
No. 1.423 of 2010) Language(s) : Spanish Number of pages : 5 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/SPS/CHL/24_01219_00_s.pdf  
6. Description of content : The notified text establishes phytosanitary requirements 
governing the importation of Fragaria  x ananassa  plants coming from the United States to 
be used as propagation material, drawing particular attention to the following:  
• Each consignment must be covered by a phytosanitary certificate issued by the 
phytosanitary authority of the United States that include s the additional declarations 
indicated in the Resolution.  
• The plants come from an officially certified production programme or from a 
germplasm nursery or repository controlled by the official plant health authority of the 
United States.  
• The consignment w as inspected and was found to be free from the arthropods specified 
in the Resolution.  
• The production site was inspected at the optimal time for detecting pests, and the 
samples extracted from the mother plants underwent official laboratory analysis and 
were found to be free from Colletotrichum acutatum , Colletotrichum  fragariae , 
Colletotric hum truncatum  and Peronospora fragariae . 
• The plants derive from mother plants that were inspected and tested at the optimal 
time for detecting pests and found to be free from Erwinia amylovora , Ralstonia 
solanacearum  race 1, Xanthomonas fragariae  and Tobac co necrosis virus . 
• The consignment was found to be free from Aphelenchoides besseyi,  Aphelenchoides 
fragariae , Ditylenchus dipsaci  (excluding Chilean populations), Longidorus elongatus, 
Pratylenchus coffeae, Pratylenchus fallax, Pratylenchus zeae, Radophol us similis sensu 
lato, Scutellonema brachyurum, Xiphimena americanum sensu lato  (excluding Chilean 
populations), Xiphinema americanum sensu stricto and Xiphinema diversicaudatum , 
based on an official laboratory analysis finding.  G/SPS/N/CHL/784  
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  Further details can be foun d in the document attached to this notification.  
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. Is there a relevant international standard ? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] [ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text)  
[ ] [ ] World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. T errestrial or 
Aquatic Animal Health Code, chapter number)  
[X] International Plant Protection Convention ( e.g. I SPM number) : ISPM Nos. 
1, 2, 11 and 20  
[ ] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the re levant international standard?  
[X] Ye s [ ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:  
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : Upon publication in the Official Journal  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : Approximately 80 days from the date of 
circulation of the notification  
11. Proposed date of entry into force : [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : 60 days from the date of publication in the Official Journal  
[ ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments : [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/ yy): 8 April 2 024 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments : [X] National Notification 
Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point . Address, fax number and email address (if 
available) of other body:  
Email: sps.chile@sag.gob.cl  
13. Text(s) available from : [X] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry 
Point . Address, fax number and email address (if available) of other body : 
Email: sps.chile@sag.gob.cl