WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/GEN/386
15 April 2003
(03-2074)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  Spanish
PERU:  COUNTRY FREE FROM "CITRUS BLACK SPOT",
"SWEET ORANGE SCAB" AND "CITRUS CANKER"
Submission by Peru
1. Peru's National Agrarian Health Service (SENASA), in conjunction with domestic citrus
producers, launched a citrus survey in April 1996 to confirm the absence of the quarantine pests
Guignardia citricarpa (citrus black spot), Elsinoe australis  (sweet orange scab) and Xanthomonas
axonopodis pv. citri  (citrus canker) and thus be able to gain access to various foreign markets,
including that of the United States.
2. The survey provided for an overall preparatory phase, followed by sequential field sampling
and the respective laboratory diagnoses.
3. The work plan was implemented in accordance with the procedures established in
Resolution No. 026 of the General Secretariat of the Andean Community and the Protocol between
SENASA, Peru and the United States Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).
4. The results obtained over this seven-year period, which were submitted to APHIS on a regular
basis, confirmed that all of Peru's citrus-producing areas were free from the above-mentioned
quarantine pests.
5. Peru, through its liaison body, forwarded the technical file of the national citrus survey to the
General Secretariat of the Andean Community, with the request that Peru be recognized as free from
the above citrus pests.
6. The General Secretariat of the Andean Community circulated the communication from Peru
to its Members and, in the absence of comments thereon, on 4 March 2003, issued Resolution No. 703
recognizing Peru as free from the citrus pests Guignardia citricarpa (citrus black spot), Elsinoe
australis  (sweet orange scab) and Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri  (citrus canker).
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