RESTRICTEDWORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/R/26/Corr.2
2 July 2002
(02-3703)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
SUMMARY OF THE MEETING HELD ON 19-21 MARCH 2002
Note by the Secretariat
Corrigendum
The following corrections are made to the su mmary report of the Twenty-Third Meeting of
the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures held on 19-21 March 2002.
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The text of paragraph 25 is amended to read as follows:
25. The representative of China explained that Medfly and South American fruit fly had not been
reported in China and that effective measures had to be taken to prevent entry given their
destructiveness.  A risk assessment by Chinese experts had concluded that the risk of introducingthese pests from Argentina was high.  China was requesting Argentina to provide data on the efficacy
of cold treatment against fruit flies and to demonstrate that it could provide an equivalent level of
protection in comparison with importing from pest-f ree areas.  He noted that establishing pest-free
places of production was not practicable for all pests, as recognized by the IPPC standard, and that
countries with advanced research on fruit fly control and quarantine did not accept importation from
places of production where the pest had previously been present, even if they were currently pest-free.
China was open to bilateral technical discussions and joint research with Argentina on this issue.
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