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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/PER/13
30 August  1999
(99-3567)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  PERU
If applicable, name of local government involved:           
2. Agency responsible:  National Agrarian Health Service
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where
applicable).  Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or
practicable:  Citrus plants and/or parts thereof entering Peru.
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Regulations Providing that Citrus
Plants and/or Parts Thereof Entering Peru Must Be Free of the Pests Guignardia citricarpa
Kiely, Elsinoe australis  Bitancourt & Jenkins and Xanthomonas axonopodis  pv. citri
(Hanse) Dye (1 page)
5. Description of content:  The Supreme Decree declares Peru free of the above-mentioned
pests and provides that the import or entry into Peru of citrus plants and/or parts thereof,
regardless of origin, means of trade, quantity and use, must proceed from areas declared free
of such pests and comply with the additiona l requirements laid down by SENASA for other
quarantine pests not covered by the Supreme Decree.
6. Objective and rationale: [     ] food safety,  [     ] animal health,  [  X ] plant protection,
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [     ] protect territory from
other damage from pests           
7. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [  X ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations: Pursuant to the International Plant Protection
Convention, Article VI (1a and 1b).
8. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available: Supreme Decree
No. 029-99-AG, available in Spanish only.
9. Proposed date of adoption: 14 August 1999, published in the Official Journal
"El Peruano".
10. Proposed date of entry into force: 15 August 1999G/SPS/N/PER/13
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11. Final date for comments:           
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [     ] National notification
authority, [  X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:
Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agraria – SENASA
Ministerio de Agricultura
Pasaje Francisco de  Zela s/n 10°Piso
Jesús María – Lima –Peru
Telephone/Fax:  (00511) 4338048-4332851
E-mail:  Adelarosa@senasa.minag.gob.pe
jbarrenechea@senasa.minag.gob.pe
12. Texts available from: [     ] National notification authority, [  X ] National enquiry point
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agraria – SENASA
Ministerio de Agricultura
Pasaje Francisco de  Zela s/n 10°Piso
Jesús María – Lima –Peru
Telephone/Fax:  (00511) 4338048-4332851
E-mail:  Adelarosa@senasa.minag.gob.pe
jbarrenechea@senasa.minag.gob.pe