SOP for Post Entry Quarantine Inspection - Plant quarantine India

SOPs for Postentry Quarantine InspectionSection-1 Introduction Page 3 of 9December 2007PhytosanitarycertificationPhytosanitaryregulationPlantsPostentryQuarantine (PEQ)Quarantine PestRegulated articleUse of phytosanitary procedures leading to the issue of a Phytosanitary Certificate.Official rule to prevent the introduction and/ or spread of quarantine pests or to limitthe economic impact of regulated non-quarantine pests including establishment ofprocedures for phytosanitary certification.Living plants and parts thereof, including seeds and germplasm.Growing of plants in isolation for any specified period in a glass-house, afacility, area or nursery and /or holding of biological control agents andbeneficial organisms under contained facility.A pest of potential economic importance to the area endangered and not yet presentthere, or present but not widely distributed and being officially controlled.Any plant, plant product, storage place, packaging, conveyance container, soil andany other organism, object or material capable of harbouring or spread of pestsdeemed to require phytosanitary measures, particularly, where internationaltransportation is involvedRegulatedquarantine pestSeedsTreatmentnonA non quarantine pest whose presence in plants for planting affects the intended useof those plants with an economically unacceptable impact and which is thereforeregulated within the territory of the importing contracting party.Seeds for planting or intended for planting and not for consumption or processingOfficial procedure for the killing, inactivation, or removal of pests or for renderingpests infertile or for devitalization.Visual ExaminationThe physical examination of plants, plant products, or other regulated articles usingthe unaided eye, lens, stereoscope or microscope to detect pests or contaminantswithout testing or processing8