. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/ECU/83 
15 March 2010 
 
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Committee on Sanitary a nd 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 Ag ricultural Product Quality Assurance) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Plant products with foliage:  Ornamental palms, areca palms, date palms, 
coconut palms, banana trees, ginger ( Zingiberaceae ), heliconias ( Heliconiaceae ), bird of 
paradise ( Strelitziaceae ), screw pine ( Pandanaceae ), and other ornamental aroids and 
Musaceae. 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[ ] All trading partners, or 
[ X ] Specific regions or countries:  26 countries (Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Oman, 
Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka , Sudan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, 
Dominican Republic, Brazil, United States (Virgin Islands), Venezuela, Guadeloupe, 
Martinique, Puerto Rico, Dominica, Saint Luci a, Saint Martin, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, and 
Trinidad and Tobago)  
5. Title of the notified document:  Resolución 142.  Declaración a la  Raoiella indica (Acari, 
Tenuipalpidae) denominado acaro rojo, como pl aga cuarentenaria ausente en el territorio 
ecuatoriano  (Resolution No. 142 declaring Raoiella indica  (Acari: Tenuipalpidae), 
commonly known as red palm mite, to be a quarantine pest absent from Ecuadorian territory)  Language:  Spanish Number of pages:  2 
6. Description of content:  The notified text declares Raoiella indica (Acari: Tenuipalpidae), 
commonly known as red palm mite, to be a quarantine pest absent from Ecuadorian 
territory. 
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.  
8. Is there a relevant international stan dard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission  (e.g. title or serial number of Codex standard 
or related text) G/SPS/N/ECU/83 
Page 2  
 
   [ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)  
[X] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM No.)  ISPM Nos. 2, 8 
and 17 
[ ] 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 language (s) in which these are available:  Official 
Journal ( Registro Oficial ) No. 110 of 18 January 2010 (available in Spanish) 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  Immediately 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  18 January 2010 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Si x months from date of publication, and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) :  Immediately 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments:  [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification 
and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  Not applicable. 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [X] 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 09 
Quito, Ecuador 
Tel.: +(593) 2 567 232;  543 319 E-mail: direccion@agrocalidad.gov. ec, mpadilla@agrocalidad.gov.ec 
Website: http://www.agrocalidad.gov.ec
 
13. Texts available from:  [X] 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 09 
Quito, Ecuador Tel.: +(593) 2 567 232;  543 319 E-mail: direccion@agrocalidad.gov. ec, mpadilla@agrocalidad.gov.ec 
Website: http://www.agrocalidad.gov.ec