. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/GEN/711 
7 July 2006 
 (06-3295) 
Committee on Sanitary and 
Phytosanitary Measures Original:   Spanish 
 
 
 
PHYTOSANITARY STATUS REPORT 
 
Statement by Paraguay at the mee ting held on 27 and 28 June 2006  
 
 
 The following communication, received on 6 July 2006, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of Paraguay.  
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 1. On 28 December 2005 the National Plant and Seed  Quality and Health Service (SENAVE) of 
the Republic of Paraguay and the National Agri culture and Food Quality and Health Service 
(SENASA) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestoc k and Fisheries of the Argentine Republic signed, 
in the framework of the Cooperation Agreement be tween the two countries, a Letter of Agreement 
with two annexes: 
I. PROGRAMME OF BILATERAL TECHNICAL COOPERATION FOR THE 
ELIMINATION OF THE PEST KNOWN AS THE MEXICAN COTTON BOLL WEEVIL 
2. This Agreement was signed with a view to ma king the fullest possible use of the human and 
material resources in order to carry out programmes, projects and measures of common interest, 
which, on account of their objectives and functions , are necessary to preserve the phytosanitary 
resources of both countries.  The objectives set for this programme are: 
 (a) To strengthen mutual cooperation by the plant health services of both countries in 
devising common control strategies and compatible phytosanitary regulations, with a view to improving the phytosanitary situa tion in the cultivation of cotton and its by-
products;  and 
  (b) to control the Mexican cotton boll weevil ( Anthonomus grandis ) within Paraguay. 
 3. The programme strategies will include the commitment of technical and financial resources 
from official sources, in accordance with provision s of the Annual Operational Plan (AOP), and 
negotiations to obtain resources from the private sector in both countries with a view to implementing Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programmes, wh ich will include pest monitoring, crop control, 
legal supervision (quarantine measures), chemical  monitoring, ethological monitoring, training of 
technicians and producers and dissemination of the programme, in order to eliminate populations of 
the cotton boll weevil. 
4. The programme will be implemented in several stages:  the first will take place in the 
Department of Ñeembucú and the second and sub sequent stages will be carried out in other 
departments of the Oriental Region of Paraguay. G/SPS/GEN/711 
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  II. PROTOCOL FOR THE EXPORT OF CUCÚRBITA MOSCHATA  (COURGETTE) 
FROM THE REPUBLIC OF PARAGUAY TO THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC 
5. This Protocol sets out the terms agreed to impl ement the procedures for a "systems approach" 
in dealing with the pest known as the South American cucurbit fly, Anastrepha grandis , in fresh 
produce of Cucúrbita moschata, and will cover  the exports of this product originating in four districts 
of the Department of Concepción of the Republic of  Paraguay to the Argentine Republic, with a view 
to ensuring that the deliveries of the product pr esent no quarantine risk with regard to the disease. 
6. The implementation of this Protocol will ensu re the equality of the criteria used in the 
procedures and in the application of the risk-mitigat ion measures agreed therein, on the basis of the 
principles of non-discrimination, harmonization, equiva lence, transparency and confidentiality.  It is 
now in the process of being implemented and it is e xpected that the first consignment will be exported 
in the course of the months of October and November this year.  
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