G/SPS/GEN/1716  
2 July 2019 
(19-4425) Page: 1/2 
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  27 June 2019, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Chile. 
 
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1.  Pursuant to Article  5, Article 6 and paragraph 3(c) of Annex A to the Agreement on the Application 
of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures , Chile hereby advises WTO Members that Exempt Resolution 
No. 4425/2019 has amended Resolution No. 3080 of 2003 establishing regionalization criteria in 
relation to quarantine pests for Chile . The Exempt Resolution entered into force on 24 June 2019. 
2.  The amendment was made in view of the following:  
i. The Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG)  is the authority respons ible 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 t hat its phytosanitary measures are in 
keeping with the regional characteristics of the areas of origin as well as  those  of 
destination of plant products . 
iii. Article VII of the 1997 International Pla nt Protection Convention (IPPC ), to which Chile 
is a signator y, stipulates that the contracting parties are to establish and update lists of 
regulated pests, using scientific names, and make such lists available to the Secretary, 
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 t o meet , where applicable,  in 
order to enter  the country . 
v. The pest risk analyses conducted  showed  that the following pests , which  are absent 
from Chile, qualify as quarantine pests : Ambrosia trifida , Aromia bungii , Dendrolimus 
spectabilis , Dioryctria zimmermani , Dysmicoccus neobrevipes , Duponchelia fovealis , 
Erthesina fullo , Eucalyptolyma maideni , Geosmithia morbida , Grapevine pinot gris virus 
(GPGV), Grapevine red blotch -associated virus, Grapevine vein -clearing virus (GVCG), 
Neofabraea perennans , Ophelimus eucalypti , Ophelimus maskelli , Paropsisterna 
bimaculata , Paropsisterna m -fuscum , Pityophthorus juglandis , Sphaceloma perseae , 
Trachymela sloanei  and Trachymela tincticollis , as they have high introduction and 
economic impact potential for the countr y. The SAG's agricultural surveillance and forest 
surveillance programmes identify which pests are absent from or present in Chile, 
determine the quarantine pests that are present and subject to official monitoring  and 
regularly update the latter's distrib ution. 
vi. The pest risk analysis for Vitis spp  from the United States has been updated.  
vii. New articles for import from new origins  have been regulated  by specific sanitary 
measures based on the relevant pest risk analyses,  which have identified the need for 
regulation of new quarantine pests, hosts of quarantine pests, and quarantine pest/host 
combinations, for both continental and insular Chile.  G/SPS/GEN/1716  
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  viii. Under the SAG's agricultural and forest plant surveillance programme , the pest 
Drosophila suzukii  has been restricted to the areas and/or regions of the country where  
the SAG has detected and/or confirmed its presence ; accordingly,  it has been  removed 
from the list of quarantine pests absent from Chile.  
ix. As a result of its activities, t he SAG's agricultural and fore st plant surveillance 
programme has reported the presence in the country of the pest  Phacidiopycnis 
washingtonensis . 
 
3.  The text of the Resolution is available is available in Spanish at:  
http://normativa.sag.gob.cl/Publico/Normas/DetalleNorma.aspx?id=1133022  and at:  
https://www.leyc hile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=1133022&idParte=0 , or may be requested by email to 
Chile's SPS  contact point ( sps.chile@sag.gob.cl ). 
4.  Lastly , Chile states that this communication is being made for the purposes of transpar ency, 
without prejudice to the country's rights and obligations under the SPS Agreement.  
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