WTO notification · SPS
JapanEmergency measure, may already applyEmergency
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Emergency measures to mitigate the risk of introducing Pepper chat fruit viroid from Türkiye
Japan notified this emergency SPS measure on 22 October 2025. Emergency measures can apply immediately.
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Live plants and plant parts for planting (excluding fruits and including seeds) of the following plants: sweet pepper (chili pepper, shishito pepper, bell pepper) (Capsicum annuum), tomato (including Lycopersicon esculentum (syn. Solanum lycopersicum), Solanum arcanum, Solanum cheesmaniae, Solanum c
The notification sets no comment deadline. To comment, contact your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/JPN/1376; it forwards comments to Japan.
Find your country's enquiry point on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)To prevent the introduction of Pepper chat fruit viroid (PCFVd) into Japan, MAFF has taken emergency measures for the host plants of PCFVd from Türkiye. The measures are taken as follows: (1) For seeds: The plants must fulfill the following specific requirement AND the phytosanitary certificate or the certified copy of the phytosanitary certificate must include additional declaration (see (3)). Either The samples randomly taken from parent plants and ones with suspected symptoms are tested by an appropriate genetic method such as RT-PCR assay and found to be free from Pepper chat fruit viroid; or The seeds are tested prior to export by an appropriate genetic method such as RT-PCR assay and found to be free from Pepper chat fruit viroid; 4,600 seeds are randomly taken from a lot as samples in accordance with the International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) procedures; or in case that the number of seeds of a lot is less than 46,000, 10% of the seeds are used for the testing; they are divided into at most 400 seeds as sub-samples. (2) For Live plants and plant parts for planting (excluding seeds and fruits): The plants must fulfill the following specific requirement AND the phytosanitary certificate or the certified copy of the phytosanitary certificate must include additional declaration (see (3)). The plants randomly taken from a lot and plants with suspected symptoms are tested during the growing season or prior to export by an appropriate genetic method such as RT-PCR…
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