WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/NZL/178/Add.1
16 December 2002
(02-6933)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
Addendum
The following communication, dated 13 December 2002, has been received from New Zealand.
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Proposal to further delineate pest free areas of pine pitch canker ( Fusarium circinatum  (syn. Fusarium
subglutinans  f sp. pini)) in California, USA.
In response to a request from industry, the Ne w Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
has recently revised the pest free status of counties within California for pine pitch canker ( Fusarium
circinatum  (syn. Fusarium subglutinans  f sp. pini)).
New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry  will now consider the following counties of
California to be free of pine pitch canker ( Fusarium circinatum  (syn. Fusarium subglutinans  f sp. pini))
when considering requests to import Pseudotsuga menziesii  nursery stock material only:
Del Norte, Siskiyou, Modoc, Shasta, Lassen, Plumas, Butte, Sierra, Yuba, Placer, El Dorado,
Amador, Tulare, Inyo, Mariposa, Nevada, Calaveras, Alpine, Tuolumne, Mono.
For further information or copies of the notified document, contact the Coordinator,
SPS New Zealand, PO Box 2526, Wellington, New Zealand.  Tel: +64 4 474 4226; Fax: +64 4 470
2730; E-mail:  sps@maf.govt.nz.  The notified document is also available on the internet at:
http://www.maf.govt.nz/biosecurity/sps/t ransparency/notifications/addendums.htm
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