WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/KOR/98/Add.2
18 September 2002
(02-4969)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
Addendum
The following communication, dated 12 September 2002, has been received from the
Republic of Korea.
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Tentative phytosanitary measures to prevent the introduction of Sudden Oak Death Disease
The National Plant Quarantine Service, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Republic of
Korea, has modified "Tentative phytosanitary measures to prevent the introduction of Sudden Oak
Death Disease" as of 6 September 2002 (notified as G/SPS/N/KOR/98 and G/SPS/N/KOR/113).  Thismodification is based on the latest information that Coast redwood ( Sequoia sampervirens ) and
Douglas Fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii ) were newly confirmed as susceptible to Phytophthora ramorum ,
the causal organism of Sudden Oak Death Disease.
The importation of all propagative and non-propagative materials of Coast redwood ( Sequoia
sampervirens ) and Douglas fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii ) from Germany, the Netherlands, England and
United States of America (thirteen counties in th e State of California and Oregon) where sudden oak
death disease occurs were additionally prohibited to prevent the introduction of this disease into
Korea.  
This modified regulation is effective for the consignment shipped on and after
10 September 2002.
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