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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/CAN/233/Rev.1 
18 January 2005 
 (05-0227) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES 
 
Revision
 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  CANADA  
If applicable, name of local government involved:        
2. Agency responsible:  Canadian Food Inspection Agency  
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):  All plants, including "finished" pot mums and garden mums; plant parts, 
including cuttings for propagation; and tissue culture, of Chrysanthemum and 
Dendranthema species and Leucanthemella serotina (= Chrysanthemum uliginosum)  
(ICS: 65.020)  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  United 
States  
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  D-97-05 (1st Revision): 
Phytosanitary Measures for Chrysanthemum , Dendranthema , and Leucanthemella serotina  
Plant Material to Prevent the Introduction of Chrysanthemum White Rust, Puccinia 
horiana , P. Henn. (Available in English, 16 pages;  French, 17 pages)  
6. Description of content:  This policy directive describes the import requirements for 
Chrysanthemum species , Dendranthema species , and Leucanthemella serotina  plant 
material from all countries, to prevent the introduction of chrysanthemum white rust, 
Puccinia horiana,  P.Henn. into Canada.  
 
Off-continent United States and all other countries are considered infested with 
chrysanthemum white rust. Regulated areas within  the continental US are:  Contra Costa 
and Santa Cruz, California; Clackmas, Ore gon;  Clallam and Snohomish, Washington, 
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and New York. 
 
This notification serves to advise Members that  Canada has increased the regulated areas 
within the United States to include the entire state of California where P. horiana  occurs, or 
is suspected to occur.  The Canadian F ood Inspection Agency has revised D-97-05 to 
include this state as regulated areas (Appendix 1).  
7. Objective and rationale:  [    ] food safety,  [    ] animal health,  [  X ] plant protection,
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease,  [    ] protect territory from 
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 8. Nature of the urgent problem(s) and reasons for urgent action:  P. horiana is a serious 
fungal disease of chrysanthemums and a quarantine p est to Canada.  It is spread by infected 
host materials and can be difficult to detect by visual inspection.  The USDA has recently 
reported that P. horiana has been identified in two additio nal locations in the State of 
California. 
 
Canada will continue to revise its list of  regulated areas as new information on the 
distribution of this pathogen becomes available.  
9. International standard, guideline or recommendation: 
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission,  [   ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plant Protection Convention,  [ X ] None If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:        
10. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  None 
11. Date of entry into force/period of application (as applicable):  5 January 2005  
12. Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification 
authority,  [ X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:        
13. Texts available from:  [    ] National notification authority, [  X ] National enquiry 
point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:   
The electronic version of the Di rective can be downloaded at: 
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/ plaveg/protect/dir/d-97-05e.shtml  (English) 
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/francais /plaveg/protect/ dir/d-97-05f.shtml  (French)