G/SPS/GEN/1903   
19 April 2021 
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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 16 April 2021, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Chile. 
 
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1.  Pursuant to Article 5, Article 6 and Annex A, paragraph 3(c), of the Agreement on the Application 
of Sanitary and Phyt osanitary Measures, Chile hereby advises WTO Members that Exempt Resolution 
No. 2086/2021 has amended Resolution No.  3080 of 2003 establishing regionalization criteria in 
relation to quarantine pests for Chile. The Exempt Resolution entered into force on 1 5 April 2021.  
2.  The amendment was made in view of 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 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 Intern ational Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), to which Chile is a 
signatory, 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 t he phytosanitary 
regulations whose requirements regulated articles have to 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:  Amaranthus blitoides , Amaranthus palmeri , Centaurea 
diffusa , Citripestis sagittiferella , Dasineura oleae , Heterotheca subaxillaris , 
Linaria  dalmática , Lobiopa insularis , Lycorma delicatula , Neofabraea Malicorticis , 
Phyllosticta  solitaria  (= P. arbutifolia ), Potato yellow vein virus, Prays endocarpa , 
Pseudomonas syringae  pv. actinidiae and biovars  thereof , Senecio bonariensis , Senecio 
pampeanus , Senecio tweediei , Silene latifolia  subsp. alba, Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus, 
Themeda quadrivalvis  and Yponome uta malinellus , as they have high introduction and 
economic impact potential for the country.  
 
vi. An unintentional error was detected in the entry of the scientific name of the pest 
Dendrolimus superans  (= D. sibiricus ), which must be corrected ; 
vii. As a result of its activities , the SAG's  Agricultural and Forestry Phytosanitary Surveillance 
Programme has reported the presence in the country of the pest Diplotaxis tenuifolia  and G/SPS/GEN/1903  
 
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  has updated the pest risk analysis , which has determined that Diplotaxis tenuifolia  is not a 
quarantine pest  for Chile;  
viii. 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 hosts, for both continental and insular Chile.  
ix. The SAG's Agricu ltural and Forestry Phytosanitary Surveillance Programme has  reported that 
the pest Phytophthora kernoviae  is an organism present in Chile and that it has co -evolved 
with the native forest species of the Andean -Patagonian region , but has not demonstrated 
pest behaviour in the country .   
3.  The text of the Resolution is available in Spanish at:  
https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/navegar?idNorma=1158255 , 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 transparency, 
without prejudice to the country's rights and obligations under the SPS Agreement.  
 
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