G/TBT/N/PER/68
9 March 2015
(15-1335)  Page: 1/2
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: Spanish
 
  NOTIFICATION 
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Notifying Member: PERU 
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible: Ministerio de Agricultura y Riego  (Ministry of Agriculture and 
Irrigation) 
Name and address (including telephon e and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above: Ministerio de 
Comercio Exterior y Turismo (Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism) 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2. 10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ],  5.7.1 [ ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided  in addition, where applicable): 
06.02.90.90 Other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and slips;mushroom spawn; 0602.10.90.00 Unrooted cuttings and slips;  0602.20.00.00 Trees, shrubs and bushes, 
grafted or not, of kinds which bear edible fruit or nuts; 1209.99.10.00 Seeds of fruit trees 
or forest trees. 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document: Proyecto de 
Reglamento de Plantas de Vivero de Frutale  (Draft Regulation on nursery fruit plants) (24 
pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content: The Draft Regulation on nursery fruit plants regulates the 
production, certification, marketing and importation of propagation material for fruit-
bearing species, with a view to ensuring, in high-productivity fruit-tree plantations, 
compliance with the minimum varietal, physiological and sanitary quality requirements.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: The notified Draft Regulation seeks to promote the production and marketing 
of propagation material, the varietal characte ristics of which have been verified on the 
basis of the phytosanitary requirements estab lished for the species in question. Varietal 
identity, health and quality are to be verified in installations and on lands under inspection with a view to obtaining high-quality nursery plants.  
8. Relevant documents: - 
9. Proposed date of adoption: Six months after publication in the Official Journal. 
Proposed date of entry into force: Six months after publication in the Official Journal.  
10. Final date for comments: 2 June 2015 
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresse s, if available, of other body:  G/TBT/N/PER/68 
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  Address, telephone and fax numbers an d email and website addresses, if 
available, of other body:  
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo - MINCETUR 
Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50 - Urb. Corpac Lima 27 - Perú Tel.: +(51-1) 513 6100, Ext. 8022 
Fax: +(51-1) 513 6100, Ext. 8002 
Email: otc@mincetur.gob.pe  
http://extranet.comunidadandina.org/sirt 
http://www.mincetur.gob.p e/reglamentostecnicos 
http://www.minagri.gob.pe/ 
http://www.inia.gob.pe/ 
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