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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/BRA/23/Rev.1 
9 March 2011 
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Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
Revision
 
 
1. Notifying Member:  BRAZIL  
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible:  Secretaria de Defesa Agropecuária , SDA (Secretariat of Animal and 
Plant Health), Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento , MAPA (Ministry of 
Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply) 
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):  Sunflowers ( Helianthus annuus ) (HS tariff heading 1206)  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[ ] All trading partners [X] Specific regions or countries:  Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay  
5. Title of the notified document:  Instrução Normativa  (Normative Instruction) No. 3 of 
17 February 2011, published in Section 1 of the Official Journal of 18 February 2011 
Language:  Portuguese Number of pages:  6 
Text available at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2011/sps/BRA/11_0718_00_x.pdf  
6. Description of content:  The notified Normative Instruction adopts the Requisitos 
Fitosanitarios para Helianthus annuus (girasol ), según País de Destino y Origen, para los 
Estados Partes del MERCOSUR (Phytosanitary requirements for Helianthus annuus  
(sunflowers), according to country of des tination and origin, for MERCOSUR States 
Parties), contained in the Annex to and form ing part of this Normative Instruction. 
Abrogation of Normative Instruction No. 20 of 15 March 2002, notified in document 
G/SPS/N/BRA/23 of 24 March 1997. 
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/BRA/23/Rev.1 
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  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)  
[ ] World Organization 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, 2 and 11  
[ ] 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:  MERCOSUR 
Common Market Group Resolution No. 8/10: 
http://www.mercosur.org.uy/show?contentid=1990  (available in Spanish) 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  18 February 2011 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  18 February 2011 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  18 February 2011 
[ ] 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 handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address 
(if available) of other body:  
Secretaría de Relaciones Internacionales para la Agroindustria - SRI 
Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Abastecimiento - MAPA 
Esplanada dos Ministérios, Bloco "D", 3° andar 70043-900 - Brasilia - DF - Brasil Tel.: +(5561) 3218-2308 / 3218-2834 Fax: +(5561) 3225-4738 
E-mail: cgomc@agricultura.gov.br 
Website: http://www.agricultura.gov.br/
 
13. Texts available from:  [ ] National Notification  Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body: