G/SPS/GEN/1615  
29 May 2018 
(18-3189) 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, dated 2 4 May 2018, 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 Membe rs that 
Exempt Resolution No. 2396/2018 has amended Resolution No. 3080 of 2003 establishing 
regionalization criteria in relation to quarantine pests for Chile . The Exempt Resolution entered into 
force on 5 May 2018. 
2.  The amendment was made in view of the f ollowing:  
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 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 International Pla nt Protection Convention (IPPC  (1997)), 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 the phytosanitary 
regulations whose requirements regulated articles have to meet , where applicable,  in 
order to enter  the country . 
v. 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 ne w quarantine pests, hosts of quarantine pests, and quarantine 
pest/host combinations, for both continental and insular Chile.  
vi. 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 following pests : 
Aceria tosichella , Candidatus Phytoplasma pyri  (Pear decline phytoplasma), 
Mycosphaerella populorum , Phacidium coniferarum , Uromyces transversalis , Aphis 
forbesi , Apple stem grooving virus, Citrus Tristeza virus  and Asphodel us tenuifolius . G/SPS/GEN/1615  
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  vii. The SAG's agricultural surveillance and forest surveillance programmes identify  
which pests are absent from or present in Chile, determin e the quarantine pests that 
are present and subject to official control and regularly updat e the latter 's 
distribution.  
viii. The distribution of pests that are present in part of the national territory and are 
subject to official control for the purposes of containment, suppression or 
eradication, changes according to the actual strengths of official controls and the 
biology of the pest.  
3.  The text of the Resolution is available is available in Spanish at: 
http://normativa.sag.gob.cl/Publico/Normas/DetalleNorma.aspx?id=1118229  and at: 
https://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=216948 , 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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