G/SPS/N/USA/2518/Add.1  
 
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
Addendum 
The following communication, received on 15 July 2013, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the United States of America. 
 
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 Final Rule: Importation of Fresh Citrus Fruit from Uruguay, Including Citrus  Hybrids and 
Fortunella  spp., into the Continental United States (Docket No. APHIS-2011-0060) 
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is amending the fruits and vegetables 
regulations to allow the importation of several varieties of fresh citrus fruit, as well as Citrus  
hybrids and the Citrus -related genus Fortunella , from Uruguay into the continental United States. 
As a condition of entry, the fruit will have to be  produced in accordance with a systems approach 
that includes requirements for importation in commercial consignments, pest monitoring and pest control practices, grove sanitation and packin ghouse procedures designed to exclude the 
quarantine pests, and treatment. The fruit also will have to be accompanied by a phytosanitary 
certificate issued by the national plant protection organization of Uruguay with an additional declaration confirming that the fruit is free from all pests of quarantine concern and has been produced in accordance with the systems approach. These actions will allow for the importation of 
fresh citrus fruit, including Citrus  hybrids and the Citrus -related genus Fortunella , from Uruguay 
while continuing to protect the United States against the introduction of plant pests. 
This notice is available in English at: " http://www.regulations.gov/ #!documentDetail;D=APHIS-
2011-0060-0064 ". 
Federal Register: Vol. 78, No. 132, Wednesday, 10 July 2013, pages 41259-41265 
This action is subsequent to a notice published in the Federal Register on 6 February 2013 
(78 FR 8435-8441, Docket No. APHIS-2011-0060), a proposal (1) to amend the regulations 
concerning the importation of fruits and vegetables to allow the importation of several species of fresh Citrus  and Fortunella  fruit (2) ("citrus fruit") from Uruguay into the continental United States. 
We also prepared a pest risk assessment (PRA) (3 ) that evaluated the risks associated with the 
importation of these species of fresh citrus fruit from Uruguay into the continental United States 
and identified six pests of quarantine significance in Uruguay that could be introduced into the United States through the importation of citrus fruit. These included two fruit flies, Anastrepha 
fraterculus  (South American fruit fly) and Ceratitis capitata  (M e d ite rrane an fru it f ly , o r M e d fly); 
two moths, Cryptoblabes gnidiella  (the honeydew moth) and Gymnandrosoma aurantianum (citrus 
fruit borer); one fungus ( Elsinoë australis , causal agent of sweet orange scab, or SOS); and a 
pathogen ( Xanthomonas citri  subsp. citri, or Xcc, causal agent of citrus canker). In order to 
provide an appropriate level of phytosanitary protection against the pests of quarantine concern associated with the importation of fresh citrus fruit from Uruguay into the continental United States, we proposed requirements in a risk management document (RMD) for fresh citrus fruit 
from Uruguay to be produced in accordance with  a systems approach that included the following 
requirements: Fruit must be imported only in commercial consignments; the Uruguayan national plant protection organization (NPPO) must provid e a workplan to the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service (APHIS) that details the activities that the Uruguayan NPPO will, subject to 
APHIS' approval of the workplan, carry out to m eet the proposed requirements; pest monitoring G/SPS/N/USA/2518/Add.1 
 
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  and control practices must be conducted; grove sanitation and packinghouse procedures must be 
designed to exclude quarantine pests; and the frui t must be treated in accordance with 7 CFR part 
305 and the Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ ) Treatment Manual. (4) We also proposed to 
require consignments of citrus fruit from Uruguay to be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate 
with an additional declaration stating that the fruit in the consignment is free of all pests of 
quarantine concern and has been produced in a ccordance with the requirements of the systems 
approach. We solicited comments on our proposal for 60 days ending 8 April 2013. We received 
55 comments by that date. 
This addendum concerns a: 
[ ] Modification of final date for comments 
[X] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation 
[ ] Modification of content and/or scope of  previously notified draft regulation 
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation 
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force 
[ ] Other:   
Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified 
measure in terms of products and/or potent ially affected Members, a new deadline for 
receipt of comments should be provided, norm ally of at least 60 calendar days. Under 
other circumstances, such as extension of or iginally announced final date for comments, 
the comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable.  This rule is effective: 9 August 2013. 
Agency or authority designated to handle co mments: [ ] National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax nu mber and e-mail address (if available) of 
other body: 
Ms Meredith C. Jones, Senior Regulatory Coordi nation Specialist, Regulatory Coordination and 
Compliance, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737; Tel: +(1 301) 851 
2289.  
Text available from: [X] National Notificati on Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e-mail addre ss (if available) of other body: 
United States SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), Stop 1014, Washington D.C. 20250; Tel: +(1 202) 
720 1301; Fax: +(1 202) 720 0433; E-mail: us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov  
 
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