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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/VEN/6
12 March 2003
(03-1395)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  VENEZUELA
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agriculture and Land / Autonomous Agricultural Health
Service (SASA)
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):
Chapter VI:  06.01:   06.01.20.00
Chapter VII:  07.03:   07.03.10.00
Whole onion ( Allium cepa ) plants and parts thereof, including bulbs
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  
Countries where the species is found and where it is affected by the pests specified
in point 6 below.
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  Resolution Restricting
the Importation of Whole Onion ( Allium cepa ) Plants and Parts Thereof, Including Bulbs
(3 pages, in Spanish).
6. Description of content:  This Resolution restricts the importation of whole onion ( Allium
cepa ) plants and parts thereof, including bulbs, from countries where the following pests
exist:
Acrolepia assectella , Acrolepiopsis sapporensis , Agriotes lineatus , Agriotes
sputator , Agrotis segetum , Autographa gamma , Brachycerus albidentatus , Brachycerus
algirus , Delia antiqua , Delia platura , Dyspessa ulula , Mamestra brassicae , Neotoxoptera
formosana , Spodoptera littoralis , Puccinia allii , Urocystis cepulae  and Aphelenchoides
fragariae .
Importation of the seed of this species will be permitted, subject to a risk analysis of
each individual case.
The purpose of this Resolution is to protect the horticultural production of onion
(Allium cepa ) plants and parts thereof (including bulbs) from quarantine pests for Venezuela
which could affect such production as a result of the importation into the country of living
material of this horticultural species from countries where it is found and where it is
affected by these pests.
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 pestsG/SPS/N/VEN/6
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8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:
[    ] Codex Alimentarius Commission,  [   ] Office International des Epizooties,
[ X ] International Plant Protection Convention,  [    ] None
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Official Gazette of
the Republic of Venezuela No. 36,570, Resolution DM (Office of the Minister)/No. 631(available in Spanish).
10. Proposed date of adoption:  29 October 1998
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  29 October 1998
12. Final date for comments: Although the measure has already been adopted and entered into
force, comments will be accepted within 60 days of submission of the notification by thePermanent Mission to the Central Registry of Notifications for subsequent amendments.
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [  X ] National notification
authority, [     ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:
Autonomous Agricultural Health Service (SASA),
Av. Lecuna, Torre Este, 12
th floor, Parque Central, El Conde,
Caracas, Venezuela.
Tel:  (58 212) 509-0140 / 509-0184 / 509-0315 / 509-0378
Fax:  (58 212) 509-0376
E-mail:  mat_sasa@yahoo.es
13. Texts available from:  [  X ] National notification authority, [     ] National enquiry
point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Autonomous Agricultural Health Service (SASA),
Av. Lecuna, Torre Este, 12th floor, Parque Central, El Conde,
Caracas, Venezuela.
Tel:  (58 212) 509-0140 / 509-0184 / 509-0315 / 509-0378
Fax:  (58 212) 509-0376E-mail:  mat_sasa@yahoo.es