G/TBT/N/PER/98  
5 January  2018 
(18-0067) 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 government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible : Ministerio de Agricultura y Riego , MINAGRI (Ministry of Agriculture 
and Irrigation)  
Name and address (including telephone 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:  
Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria , INIA (National Agrarian Innovation Institute)  
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 th eir roots), cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn;  
0602.10.90.00 Unroot ed 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 language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Reglamento de Semillas Forestales  (Draft Regulation on forest -tree seeds) (14 pages, in 
Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified Draft Regulation on forest -tree seeds regulates the 
production, certification, marketing and importation of propagation  material for forest -tree 
species, with a view to ensuring, in high -productivity forest -tree plantations, compliance 
with the minimum varietal, physiological and sanitary quality requirements.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent pro blems where 
applicable : Protection of animal or plant life or health ; Protection of the environment ; 
Promotion of the production and marketing of propagation material, the varietal 
characteristics of which have been verified on the basis of the phytosanita ry requirements 
established for the species in question . Identity, health and quality are to be verified in 
installations and on lands under inspection with a view to obtaining high -quality forest -tree 
species.  
8. Relevant documents : -  
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined.  
Proposed date of entry into force : Six months after publication in the Official Journal El 
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  10. Final date for comments : 27 March 2 018 
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
http://extranet.comunidadandina.org/sirt/public/index.aspx  
http://www.mincetur.gob.pe/reglamentostecnicos  
http://www.minagri.gob.pe/  
http://www.inia.gob.pe/  
Address, telephone and fax numbers and 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. 1223 and 1239  
Email: otc@mincetur.gob.pe  
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