G/SPS/N/ECU/131  
30 October 2013  
(13-5995)  Page: 1/2  
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: Spanish  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
1. Notifying Member: ECUADOR 
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible: Agencia Ecuatoriana de Aseguramiento de la Calidad del Agro , 
AGROCALIDAD (Ecuadorian Agency for Agri cultural Product Quality Assurance) 
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): Rooted cuttings with or without substrate and unrooted cuttings of 
Pincushion Protea ( Leucospermum  sp.) for planting, from Ca lifornia, United States of 
America 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected , to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[ ] All trading partners, or [X] Specific regions or countries: United States of America  
5. Title of the notified document: Propuesta de requisitos fitosanitarios para la importación 
de esquejes enraizados con o sin sustrato, esquejes sin raíz de Leucospermum 
(Leucospermum sp.) para plantar procedentes de California - Estados Unidos de 
Norteamérica (Draft phytosanitary requirements for the importation into Ecuador  of rooted 
cuttings with or without substrate and unrooted cuttings of Pincushion Protea 
(Leucospermum sp.) for planting, from California, United States of America). Language: 
Spanish Number of pages: 1 
 Text available from: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2013/sps/ECU/13_4371_00_s.pdf   
6. Description of content: Draft phytosanitary requirements for the importation into 
Ecuador of rooted cuttings with or without substrate and unrooted cuttings of Pincushion 
Protea ( Leucospermum  sp.) for planting, from Californi a, United States of America. 
7. Objective and rationale: [ ] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, [ ] 
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.) International 
Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPM) Nos. 2, 11 and 21 
[ ] None  G/SPS/N/ECU/131 
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  Does this proposed regulation conform to  the relevant international standard? 
[X] Yes [ ] No  
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:   
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available: None 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 26 December 2013 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : 30 December 2013 
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : 31 December 2013 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments: [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 29 December 2013 
Agency or authority designated to hand le comments: [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:  
Agencia Ecuatoriana de Aseguramiento de la Calidad del Agro, AGROCALIDAD  
Av. Eloy Alfaro y Amazonas, Edificio MAGAP, Piso 9, Quito, Ecuador 
Tel.: (+593) 2 2567-232 / 2543-319 / 2548-751 Fax: (+593) 2 2567-232 / 2543-319 / 2548-71, Ext. 220 
E-mail: dirección@agrocalidad.gob.ec 
 relaciones.internacionales@agrocalidad.gob.ec 
13. Texts available from: [ ] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if availabl e) of other body: 
Agencia Ecuatoriana de Aseguramiento de la Calidad del Agro, AGROCALIDAD  
Av. Eloy Alfaro y Amazonas, Edificio MAGAP, Piso 9, Quito, Ecuador 
Tel.: (+593) 2 2567-232 / 2543-319 / 2548-751 Fax: (+593) 2 2567-232 / 2543-319 / 2548-71, Ext. 220 
E-mail: dirección@agrocalidad.gob.ec 
 relaciones.internacionales@agrocalidad.gob.ec