WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/KOR/98/Add.3
8 January 2003
(03-0052)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
Addendum
The following communication, dated 19 December 2002, has been received from the
Republic of Korea.
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Tentative phytosanitary measures to prevent the introduction of Sudden Oak Death Disease
The National Plant Quarantine Service, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Republic of
Korea, has added Spain to the countries subject to "Tentative phytosanitary measures to prevent the
introduction of Sudden Oak Death Disease", based on the information that Phytophthora ramorum ,
the causal organism of this disease, has been reported to occur in Spain.
With this modification, the importation of propagative and non-propagative materials of
Quercus spp., Lithocarpus  spp., Vaccinium ovatum ( Huckleberry), Rhododendron  spp., Arbutus
menziesii ( Madrone), Umbellularia california ( Bay Laurel), Viburnum bodnantense, Aesculus
california, Acer macrophyllum, Arctostaphylos  manzanita, Rhamnus californica, Lonicera hispidula,
Heteromeles arbutifolia, Sequoia sampervirens and Pseudotsuga menziesii from  Spain to Korea is
prohibited, in order to prevent the introduction of this disease.
This modified regulation is effective for the consignments shipped in Spain on and after
17 December 2002.
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