G/SPS/N/CHL/499
15 January 2015
(15-0281)  Page: 1/2
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: Spanish
 
NOTIFICATION 
1. Notifying Member:  CHILE   
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible:  Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero, SAG  (Agriculture and Livestock 
Service) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item  number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers should be provided in 
addition, where applicable):  Imports of barley ( Hordeum vulgare ) grain 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected , to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners  [ ] Specific regions or countries:   
5. Title of the notified document:  Proyecto de Resolución: Modifica resolución N° 2.677 
de 1999, que establece regulaciones de importación para granos y otros productos que indica, destinados a consumo e industrialización  (Draft Resolution amending Resolution 
No. 2.677 of 1999 establishing import regulations for grains and other products for 
consumption and processing) 
Language(s):  Spanish   Number of pages: 4 
Text available at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2015/sps/CHL/15_0250_00_s.pdf  
6. Description of content:  The notified  draft Resolution establishes phosphine fumigation 
as an alternative phytosanitary treatment to methyl bromide fumigation for the control of the quarantine pest Trogoderma granarium  in barley ( Hordeum vulgare ) grain.    
7. Objective and rationale:  [ ] food safety, [ ] animal health, [X] plant 
protection, [ ] protect humans from animal /plant pest or disease, [X] protect 
territory from other damage from pests.   G/SPS/N/CHL/499 
 
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  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 number)  
International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPM) Nos. 1 and 20 
[ ] None  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 langua ge(s) in which these are available:  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  Upon publication in the Official Journal 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  80 days from the date of circulation of 
the notification 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) :  Upon publication in the Official Journal 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments:  [X] Sixty days  from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  16 March 2015 
Agency or authority designated to handle  comments:  [X] National Notification 
Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address 
(if available) of other body:      
E-mail:  sps.chile@sag.gob.cl  
13. Texts available from:  [X] National Notifi cation Authority, [ ] National Enquiry 
Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:    
E-mail:  sps.chile@sag.gob.cl