Session 4: Inspection

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Session 4 Inspection

• Stephen Eales (UK)

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Inspection

• Document Inspection
• Consignment Identity
• Wood packaging
• Reduced frequency of inspection
• Practical aspects of inspection and sampling

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Document inspection

• Legal base - Council Directive 2002/89/EC
  amending Directive 2000/29/EC. Article 13c. 2 (a)
• Documentary checks and the inspections for
  compliance (Article 13b.1) with the provisions of
  Annex III (2000/29/EC) must be made by the
  official body of point of entry or by the customs
  authorities of the point of entry.

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Documentary inspection

• Phytosanitary certificate
• Exporters details
• Importers details
• Botanical names and quantities
• Valid date
• Official stamp
• Additional declarations

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Identity inspection

• Legal base - Council Directive 2002/89/EC
  amending Directive 2000/29/EC. Article 13c. 2 (b)
• Identity checks must be made by the official body
  of point of entry in connection with the customs
  procedures.

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Identity inspection

• A check to ensure that a consignment comprises
  only those goods which are declared to customs
  and are accurately described on the phytosanitary
  certificate.

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Identity inspection
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Identity inspection
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Wood packaging

• New requirements were introduced for the import
  of wood packaging material and dunnage, into the
  EU from 1 March 2005.
• The wood packaging compliance mark was
  introduced.
• ISPM 15

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Wood packaging
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Wood packaging
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Wood packaging
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Reduced inspections

• Implemented by some Member States e.g. UK and
  Netherlands.
• Commodity dossiers presented for discussion in
  Brussels for reduced checks.
• Commodity per country agreed and level of
  physical inspection

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Reduced inspections

• Minimum of 200 consignments per year
• Commodities reviewed each year
• Examples
• Dianthus - Columbia - 3 1 January 2005
• Citrus - Morocco - 5 1 January 2005
• Pyrus - China - 50 - 1 January 2005
• Inspection fees appropriate to level of inspection

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Reduced inspections

• However, inspection for some trades goes up
  following confirmation of findings of quarantine
  organisms.
• Mangifera - South Africa - 100 1 January 2007
• New changes for 2008
• Dianthus - Kenya - 10 1 July 2008
• Citrus - Honduras - 75 1 July 2008

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Reduced inspections
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Reduced inspections.
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Reduced inspections
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Practical inspection

• Ship, Road, Rail, Air
• Commodity
• Facilities
• Regulation
• All factors that affect the approach to inspection

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Practical inspection

• Be aware of potential personal risk
• What constitutes an inspection
• What are you looking at?
• What are you looking for?
• Plant health risk or compliance?

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Practical inspection

• Plants all includes cuttings, bulbs, potted
• Seeds Gramineae and Cruciferae from certain S
  hemisphere countries plus named others, e.g.
  Helianthus annus, Lycopersicon lycopersicum, Zea
  mais
• Wheat from US, S Africa, Pakistan, Nepal,
  Mexico, Iraq, Iran, India, Afghanistan
• Potatoes from Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Libya,
  Morocco, Syria, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey
  prohibited from elsewhere

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Practical inspection

• Most fruit Citrus, Malus, Prunus, Pyrus, Ribes,
  Annona, Cydonia, Diospyros, Mangifera,
  Passiflora, Psidium, Syzygium, Vaccinium
• NOT bananas, grapes, strawberries, pineapples
• Some vegetables - Momordica spp, Solanum
  melongena, Apium graveolens, Ocimum basilicum

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Practical inspection

• Some cut flowers -
• From any non EC countries Dianthus, Gypsophila,
  Chrysanthemum, Solidago, Orchids
• From outside Europe
• Aster, Hypericum, Rosa,
• Trachelium, Lisianthus, Eryngium

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Place of destination
Bonsai plants
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Road - point of entry
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Sea port - point of entry
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Airport - point of entry
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Controlled produce
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Quarantine organisms
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Quarantine organisms
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Controlled produce
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Wood packaging - point of entry
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Wood packaging - point of destination
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Seed imports

• Certain seeds are listed in Directive 2000/29/EC
  that have requirements for freedom from organisms
  if originating in 3rd countries.
• Annex II A I requirements
• Annex IV A I requirements

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Seed imports

• Annex II A I item 18
• seeds of Cruciferae, Gramineae and Trifolium spp
  originating in Argentina, Australia, Bolivia,
  Chile. New Zealand and Uruguay
• Visual examination (by laboratory) for live
  weevils of Listronotus bonariensis
• Time taken approx. 3 days

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Seed imports

• Annex IV A I - some examples
• Item 47 - All 3rd country Helianthus annus
• Elisa test for Plasmopara halstedii (up to 3
  weeks)
• Item 51 - All 3rd country Phaseolus seeds
• Seed extraction and plating out for Xanthomonas
  campestris pv.phaseoli
• Item 52 - All 3rd country Zea mais seeds
• Elisa test for Erwinia stewartii

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Export inspection in country of origin
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Training in country of export