INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS FOR PHYTOSANITARY MEASURES

No 13

Guidelines for the Notification of Non-Compliance and Emergency Action

Table of Contents

May 2001

Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 2002


Reprinted 2004

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Table of Contents

ENDORSEMENT

APPLICATION

REVIEW AND AMENDMENT

DISTRIBUTION

INTRODUCTION

Scope
References
Definitions and Abbreviations
Outline of Requirements

REQUIREMENTS

1. Purpose of Notifications
2. The Use of Notification Information
3. Provisions of the IPPC Related to Notification
4. Basis for Notification

4.1 Significant instances of non-compliance
4.2 Emergency action

5. Timing of Notification
6. Information Included in a Notification

6.1 Required information
6.2 Supporting information
6.3 Forms, codes, abbreviations or acronyms
6.4 Language

7. Documentation and Means of Communication
8. Pest Identification
9. Investigation of Non-compliance and Emergency Action

9.1 Non-compliance
9.2 Emergency action

10. Transit
11. Re-export

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