WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/CUB/1
24 May 2002
(02-2870)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  CUBA
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agriculture, National Centre for Plant Health
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).  Fresh fruit and vegetables hosting fruit flies which are quarantine objects in
Cuba pursuant to Resolution No. 441 of 1996, namely Anastrepha ludens (Loew),Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedmann), Anastrepha fraterculus
(Wiedmann) and Anastrepha striata (Schiner).  Regions or countries likely to be affected,
to the extent relevant or practicable:  Applicable to all countries where cases of fruit flies
which are quarantine objects in Cuba have been reported.
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document:
Ministry of Agriculture (MINAGRI) Resolution No. 441 of 19 July 1996:  Official List of
Quarantine Objects and Harmful Organisms of the Republic of Cuba.
Pest Risk Analysis. Ceratitis capitata, 1982 / Review, 2000.
Decree Law No. 153 of 31 August 1994:  Plant Health Regulations.All of the above documents are available in Spanish.
5. Description of content:
Resolution No. 441:
• Implements the list of plant quarantine objects of the Republic of Cuba, organized
in accordance with their characteristics, and includes a list of harmful organisms.
Pest Risk Analysis.  Ceratitis capitata:
This studies the risks to the Republic of Cuba of the presence of the pest Ceratitis
capitata (Wied.).
It assesses potential pathways for the introduction of pests in Cuba and their ability
and adaptability to become established in the country, the economic importance of the host
crops and the economic impact of the possible presence of this pest in Cuba.
Decree Law No. 153 empowers the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Cuba to:
• Establish standards and run and implement and monitor the work of the National
Plant Health Service, which involves the following:
1. Public information on and prognosis of the main crop, forest and pasture
pests;
2. authorization of the importation, exportation and control of quarantined
material for which certification is required;G/SPS/N/CUB/1
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3. sampling and phytosanitary and plant quarantine inspection in all of the
country's agricultural, sugar-cane and forest areas and at any other location
where products of plant origin, pesticides and bio-media exist, are
transported, used, marketed, reproduced, researched or stored.
• Authorize the importation, exportation and control of quarantined material for
which certification is required (regulated articles).
• Report quarantine pests detected in the country.
• Authorize, if appropriate, the importation, exportation, re-exportation and
circulation of plants, agricultural or forest products, organisms and micro-organisms which are harmful or beneficial to agriculture, soil or organic material
and any other quarantined material.
• Adopt the measures and regulations required to guarantee the favourable health
status of plants and agricultural products in a natural or semi-processed state.
• Make an official diagnosis of pests affecting plants and plant products.
• Authorize the packaging materials used for importation, exportation and
transportation within the national territory.
• Establish and monitor compliance with the requirements and regulations for plants
and equipment and for staff who work w ith pests to prevent such pests from
spreading abroad.
• Specify and monitor the pesticides and bio-media to be used in pest eradication.
6. 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 pests
7. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [     ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:
International Plant Protection Convention 1999 (new revised text).
(There are no deviations from this international standard).
8. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Spanish
9. Proposed date of adoption:  Not indicated.
10. Proposed date of entry into force:  Not indicated.G/SPS/N/CUB/1
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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:
National Centre for Plant Health
Ayuntamiento #231 e/ San Pedro y LombilloMunicipio Plaza de la Revolución
Havana
Cuba CP 11600
Tel.: (5 37) 879-1339;  (5 37) 881-5089;  (5 37) 870-0925;  (5 37) 878-4976
Fax: (5 37) 879-1339
E-mail: internacionales@sanidadvegetal.cu
estadistica@sanidadvegetal.cu
barrios_cu@sanidadvegetal.cu
12. Texts available from: [  X ] National notification authority, [     ] National enquiry point
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: