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Country:

 French Polynesia (PF)

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End Use:

 Woodchips

NPPO Details:
Biosecurity Directorate of French Polynesia (DBS)

Relevant Web Addresses:


https://www.service-public.pf/biosecurite/

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Export Criteria

Criteria Criteria Required?
Import Permit Yes
Phytosanitary Certificate Yes
Additional Declaration/Endorsement No
Protocol Market No

General Requirements

A copy of the import permit must be presented to an Authorised Officer at the time of inspection.

Consignments are to be free from pests, soil, weed seeds and extraneous material.

Import permit required:

  • for untreated, air dried, fumigated wood chips and sawdust of any species.
  • for all wood chips and sawdust of Pinus speces and Myrtaceae species and for Coconut wood (Cocos nucifera).

Import permit not required:

  • for wood chips and sawdust that is heat treated or treated with a permanent chemical preservative (with the exception of Pinus spp and Myrtaceae species and coconut wood).

Phytosanitary certificate required:

  • for untreated, air dried, fumigated wood chips and sawdust.
  • Phytosanitary certificate or treatment certificate required for wood chips and sawdust that have been heat treated or treated with a permanent chemical preservative.

Wood chips from Arecaceae, Pandanaceae and Sterculiaceae is prohibited.

Myrtaceae species:
  • Acca
  • Corymbia
  • Metrosideros
  • Myrtus
  • Angophora
  • ​Eucalyptus
  • ​Myrcia
  • Pimenta
  • ​Callistemon
  • ​Eugenia
  • ​Myrcicmthes
  • ​Syncarpia
  • ​Campomanesia
  • ​Melaleuca
  • ​Myrciaria
  • ​Syzgium

Treatment

Preservative treatment, heat treatment or fumigation required for Pinus spp and species other than Myrtaceae.

Myrtaceae species require preservative treatment or heat treatment.

Used wood chips and sawdust must be heat treated or fumigated to ISPM 15 specifications.

Fumigation:

  • ISPM 15 specification - all species except coconut wood and Myrtaceae species
    80gm/m3 for 24 hours at 20 degrees celsius minimum temperature - coconut wood only.
  • Fumigation must be undertaken within 21 days prior to export.

Heat treatment:

  • To ISPM 15 specification - all species except coconut wood and Myrtaceae species.
  • 85 degrees celsius minimum temperature in the core of the wood for at least 8 consecutive hours.
  • 70 degrees celsius minimum temperature in the core of the wood for at least 4 hours - coconut wood only.
  • Heat treatment must be undertaken within 21 days prior to export.

Preservative treatment:

  • Preservative treatments must be hazard class 2 (H2) or higher.
  • Penetration must include all sapwood and a minimum of 5mm from any surface.
  • Preservative treatments must be durable, resistant to leeching and considered permanent.
  • All wood chips or sawdust must have a moisture content of less than 25%.
    After treatment, wood chips or sawdust must be packaged and/or shipped in such a way as to prevent contamination by quarantine pests.

The exporter is to provide evidence attesting to the treatment and present it to the department at time of authorisation.


​Details of treatment to be endorsed on the phytosanitary certificate in the treatment section.

Additional Declaration/Endorsements

Reference

NPPO notification dated 23 February 2011.

Latest updates

 

Initial Uploaded: 29/07/2014
Reviewed Uploaded: 20/04/2023

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