G/SPS/N/KOR/212/Add.12  
 
19 March 2019  
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Committee  on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 15 March 2019 , is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of  the Republic of Korea . 
 
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Amendment of Quarantine Pest List  
The Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency (APQA ), Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs 
(MAFRA) in the Republic of Korea, has amended the quarantine pest list which is based on the result 
of a Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) and in accordance with the provisions of Articles 4 and 6 of the Ministeria l 
Ordinance of the Plant Protection Act. The Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency notified to add 24 
quarantine pest species as follows:  
No. Scientific name  Group  Category  
1 Candidatus phytoplasma 
phoenicium  Bacteria  Controlled Pest 
2 Peach rosette phytoplasma  Bacteria  Controlled Pest  
3 Lettuce infectious yellows virus  Viruses Controlled Pest  
4 Peach mosaic virus  Viruses  Controlled Pest  
5 Potato black ringspot virus  Viruses  Controlled Pest  
6 Raspberry leaf curl virus  Viruses  Controlled Pest  
7 Squash leaf curl virus  Viruses  Controlled Pest  
8 Strawberry latent C virus  Viruses  Controlled Pest  
9 Tomato mottle virus  Viruses  Controlled Pest  
10 Carduus tenuiflorus  Weeds  Controlled Pest  
11 Brassica tournefortii  Weeds  Controlled Pest  
12 Onopordum acanthium  Weeds  Controlled Pest  
13 Cerambyx cerdo  Coleoptera  Controlled Pest  
14 Hylobitelus xiaoi  Coleoptera  Controlled Pest  
15 Sternechus subsignatus  Coleoptera  Controlled Pest  
16 Camponotus compressus  Hymenoptera  Controlled Pest  
17 Thaumetopoea pityocampa  Lepidoptera  Controlled Pest  G/SPS/N/KOR/212/Add.12  
 
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  No. Scientific name  Group  Category  
18 Dargida procinctus  Lepidoptera  Controlled Pest  
19 Acanthocoris scabrator  Hemiptera  Controlled Pest  
20 Cochlochila bullita  Hemiptera  Controlled Pest  
21 Dialeuropora dicempuncta  Hemiptera  Controlled Pest  
22 Matsucoccus feytaudi  Hemiptera  Controlled Pest  
23 Odonaspis saccharicaulis  Hemiptera  Controlled Pest  
24 Pseudococcus orchidicola  Hemiptera  Controlled Pest  
 
 
This addendum concerns a:  
[ ] Modification of final date for comments  
[ ] 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  
[X] Other: Amendment of quarantine pest list ( addition of 24 pests  onto the previously 
notified list; G/SPS/N/KOR/212, G/SPS/N/KOR/212 Add.11)  
Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of the pre viously notified measure 
in terms of products and/or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for receipt of 
comments should be provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days. Under other 
circumstances, such as extension of originally announced final date for comments, the 
comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)  
[X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : 18 May 2019  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [  ] National Notification Authority, 
[X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other 
body:  
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs /MAFRA 94 Dasom2 -ro, Government Complex -Sejong, 
Sejong -si 339 -012, Republic of Korea  
Tel: +(82 44) 201 2080/2081  
Fax: +(82 44) 868 0449  
E-mail: wtoagri@korea.kr   
Text(s) available from: [  ] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:  
Ministry of Agricult ure, Food and Rural Affairs /MAFRA 94 Dasom2 -ro, Government Complex -Sejong, 
Sejong -si 339 -012, Republic of Korea  
Tel: +(82 44) 201 2080/2081  
Fax: +(82 44) 868 0449  
E-mail: wtoagri@korea.kr   
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