Verbena spp

Country:

New Zealand (NZ)

Scientific Name:

Group:

Nursery stock

End Use:

Tissue culture

NPPO Details:

NPPO details

Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI)

Relevant Web Addresses:

Web Address

www.biosecurity.govt.nz; https://www.mpi.govt.nz/

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Export Criteria

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

General Requirements

General requirements

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

Where applicable, the exporter is to provide evidence attesting to the endorsement and present it to the Authorised Officer at the time of inspection.
Plants in tissue culture must be produced in a facility under conditions that prevent contamination with regulated pests (refer to Standard 155.02.06 section 2.2.2.2).

Cultures imported in growing media must have been grown in the vessel in which they are imported. The container must be pest-proof, rigid and either clear plastic or glass. The culture must not contain any antibiotics or fungicides.

The number of flasks/tubs/tubes in the consignment are to be declared on the phytosanitary certificate at all times.

Labelling:

All flasks/tubs/tubes of cultures in the consignment must be clearly identified with their scientific name (genus and species).

Explanation of endorsements

Endorsement 6338 and 6339:

Applies to consignments exported under the following pathway

plantlets recently removed from in-vitro tissue culture

Endorsement 6340 and 6341:

Applies to consignments exported under the following pathway:

plantlets in growing media

Treatment

Additional Declaration/Endorsements

Additional Declaration

Option 1 (EXDOC Endorsement 6338)
1) The tissue culture plants in this consignment have been produced in a pest free area where Tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid is not known to occur.
2) The plantlets were removed from the original culture container(s) in which they were grown, not more than 48 hours before export, and have not been in contact with any other growing media.
3) The tissue culture plants have only been grown in, and exported from, the country of origin, Australia, which is free from Xylella fastidiosa.

Option 2 (EXDOC Endorsement 6339)
1) The tissue culture plants have been produced in a pest free place of production where parent plants were tested by PCR and found free from Tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid.
2) The plantlets were removed from the original culture container(s) in which they were grown, not more than 48 hours before export, and have not been in contact with any other growing media.
3) The tissue culture plants have only been grown in, and exported from, the country of origin, Australia, which is free from Xylella fastidiosa.

Option 3 (EXDOC Endorsement 6340)
1) The tissue culture plants in this consignment have been produced in a pest free area where Tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid is not known to occur.
2) The tissue culture plants have only been grown in, and exported from, the country of origin, Australia, which is free from Xylella fastidiosa.

Option 4 (EXDOC Endorsement 6341)
1) The tissue culture plants have been produced in a pest free place of production where parent plants were tested by PCR and found free from Tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid.
2) The tissue culture plants have only been grown in, and exported from, the country of origin, Australia, which is free from Xylella fastidiosa.

Reference

Reference Details

Import Health Standard dated 22 July 2020.

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