WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/KOR/109/Add.1
6 May 2002
(02-2545)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
Addendum
The following communication, dated 29 April 2002, has been received from the Republic of
Korea.
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Tentative phytosanitary measures to prevent the introduction of Pine Wood Nematode
The National Plant Quarantine Service, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Republic of
Korea, has modified as of 18 April 2002, the import restriction, which was a tentative ban notified as
G/SPS/N/KOR/109.  This modification is based on the latest information provided by Portugal withregard to the current status of pine wood nematode  in Portugal and control measures taken by the
Portuguese authority.
The Republic of Korea will impose restrictions on the importation of nursery stocks and
logs/woods of Pinus spp., Larix spp. and Cedrus spp.  if they are produced in Mexico and in pine
wood nematode outbreak area and the adjacent buf fer zones of Portugal.  The imports from other
areas of Portugal should be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate additionally declaring that thisshipment of Pinus spp. (Laris spp. and Cedrus spp. ) is produced in the areas other than the pine wood
nematode occurring areas and buffer zone.
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