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17 August 1998
(98-3207)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  REPUBLIC OF KOREA
If applicable, name of local government involved:           
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
3. Products covered (tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited
with the WTO.  ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Fresh
fruits, Solanaceae, Nursery stocks, scions and cuttings of citrus spp.,  Nursery stocks, scions
and cuttings of Grape.
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document:   Revision of Enforcement
Regulation of Plant Protection Act
5. Description of content:  The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is revising some of the
plant items of import-prohibited plant and import-prohibited areas.  The contents are as
follows:
- Fresh Persimmon, Grape, Kiwi fruit, Grape fruit, Orange, Lemon, Lime, Avocado,
and Melon shall not be imported from the Hawaiian Islands
-  reason:  Ceratitis capitata
- Fresh Persimmon, Grape;  Grape fruit, Orange, Lemon, Lime, and Avacado shall
not be imported from the state of Texas, United States
-  reason:  Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann), Anastrepha ludens (Loew)
- Fresh Orange, Grape fruit, Lemon, and Citrus junos shall not be imported from the
Kyushu Prefecture and the areas below the latitude of Kyushu, Japan
-  reason:  Bactrocera tsuneonis Miyake
- Plants for planting including nursery stocks, scions and cuttings etc. of Citrus shall
not be imported from the Okinawa Prefecture, Japan (excluding seeds)
-  reason:  Citrus greening disease
- Plants for planting including nursery stocks, scions and cuttings etc., of Grape shall
not be imported to Taiwan, Paraguay, and Brazil (excluding seeds)
-  reason:  Xylelle fastidiosa Wells et al
- Fresh vines, stems, leaves and fres underground parts of Solanaceae can be
imported from Japan (excluding Hokkaido Prefecture and Kyushu Prefecture) andthe states of New Hampshire, New Jersey , Vermont, Ohio, Indiano, Maine, Florida,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Virginia, United StatesG/SPS/N/KOR/49
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-  reason:  Globodera rostochiensis Behrens is not distributed (Japan);
Synchytrium endobioticum & Potato spindle tuber viroid are not 
distributed (United States)
6. Objective and rationale: Plant health
7. An international standard, guidelin e or recommendation does not exist [    ].
If an international standard, guideline or  recommendation exists, whenever possible,
identify deviations:           
8. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  The Government
Gazette (Korean)
9. Proposed date of adoption:  to be determined
10. Proposed date of entry into force:  to be determined
11. Final date for comments:  30 August 1998
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:           
12. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telefax number and
E-mail address (if available) of other body:            