G/SPS/N/CPV/3  
26 May 2015  
(15-2717)  Page: 1/2  
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: Spanish  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
1. Notifying Member: CABO VERDE 
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible: Direcção Geral da Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural , DGADR 
(Directorate-General of Agriculture and Rural Development) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item  number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS num bers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable): Plants and all products of plant origin. 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected , to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners 
[ ] Specific regions or countries:  
5. Title of the notified document: Lei No. 29/VIII/2013 - Estabelece as normas de 
protecção fitossanitária em Cabo Verde  (Law No. 29/VIII/2013 establishing plant 
protection standards for Cabo Verde) Language(s): Portuguese Number of pages: 11 
6. Description of content: Cabo Verde's existing phytosanitary legislation has played a very 
important role as a fundamental tool for ensuring plant protection. However, the country 
urgently needs to update its legislation in order to ensure better protection against 
diseases and pests that could pose a risk to national agriculture. It has therefore introduced a law on phytosanitary protection comprising a set of plant protection standards applicable to plants and plant products and re gulated articles. This law not only responds 
to a need to update plant protection standa rds, but also supports compliance with the 
determinations made by the international bodies to which the State of Cabo Verde is linked. 
The notified plant protection law gives the country a legal plant health regime that meets 
current agricultural sector requirements, while providing appropriate phytosanitary protection and ensuring compliance with international plant protection obligations.  
7. Objective and rationale: [ ] food safety , [ ] animal health, [X] plant protection, 
[X] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [X] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.  
8. Is there a relevant international st andard? 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. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)  
[X] International Plant Protection Convention  (e.g. ISPM No.)  
[ ] None  G/SPS/N/CPV/3 
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  Does this proposed regulation conform to  the relevant international standard? 
[ ] Yes [X] No  
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard: Law No. 29/VIII/2013 on plants and products of plant origin was 
drafted in line with IPPC guidelines and also provides for the creation of a national plant 
protection organization (NPPO).  
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available: 
 Official Journal No. 24, I Series, of 13 May 2013 (available in Portuguese) 
 Ministry of Rural Development website: http://www.mdr.gov.cv/   
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 28 September 2012 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : 13 May 2013 
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : 13 May 2013 
[X] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments: [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable. 
Agency or authority designated to hand le comments: [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and email address (if 
available) of other body:  
Eduarda Augusta De Sá Nogueira 
(Contact point, WTO SPS Enquiry Point and Notification Authority) 
Ministério do Desenvolvimento Rural 
Direcção Geral da Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural Achada de São Filipe 
República de Cabo Verde 
C.P. 278 Praia - Cabo Verde Tel.: +(238) 260 4183/4187 
Fax: +(238) 264 7540 
Email: eduarda.nogueira@mdr.gov.cv Ministry of Rural Development website: http://www.mdr.gov.cv/  
13. Text(s) available from: [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and email address (if available) of other body: 
Eduarda Augusta De Sá Nogueira 
(Contact point, WTO SPS Enquiry Point and Notification Authority) Ministério do Desenvolvimento Rural 
Direcção Geral da Agricultura e Desenvolvimento Rural 
Achada de São Filipe República de Cabo Verde 
C.P. 278 
Praia - Cabo Verde Tel.: +(238) 260 4183/4187 Fax: +(238) 264 7540 
Email: eduarda.nogueira@mdr.gov.cv 
Ministry of Rural Development website: http://www.mdr.gov.cv/