21 MARCH 2013 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 36

The following address is:

(a) where submissions on this application are to be sent;

and

(b) where requests for copies of the public information relating to the application can be sent;

and

(c) where public information relating to the application can be viewed;

and

(d) the director-general’s address for service:

ACVM Group, Ministry for Primary Industries, Pastoral House, 25 The Terrace, Wellington 6011.
Postal Address: PO Box 2526, Wellington 6140.

The applicant’s address for service is:

Biological Solutions Limited, 4A Cargill Place, Richmond, Nelson 7020. Postal Address: PO Box 2349, Stoke, Nelson 7041.

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of March 2013.

MAREE ZINZLEY, Manager (Approvals Operations), Ministry for Primary Industries (acting under delegated authority).

Biosecurity Act 1993

Notice of Intention to Incorporate Material by Reference – Proposed Import Health Standards for Plants, Plant Products and Inanimate Pathways, and Craft Risk Management Standards for Craft (Notice No. MPI 140)

Peter Thomson, Director Plants, Food and Environment of the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), acting under delegated authority from the Director-General of MPI, gives notice under section 142N(4) of the Biosecurity Act 1993 (“the Act”) that, under section 142M of the Act, some or all of the following material, in whole or in part, is proposed for incorporation by reference in one or more import health standards for Plants, Plant Products and Inanimate Pathways developed under sections 22–24D of the Act, and one or more craft risk management standards for Craft developed under sections 24E–24I of the Act:

• Standard “PIT.OS.TRA.ACPQF Accreditation of Offshore Plant Quarantine Facilities and Operators”:
  www.biosecurity.govt.nz/border/transitional-facilities/plants/pit-os-tra-acpqf.htm

• Standard “155.04.03 A standard for diagnostic facilities which undertake the identification of new organisms, excluding animal pathogens”:
  www.biosecurity.govt.nz/border/transitional-facilities/plants/155-04-03.htm

• Standard “MPI-STD-ABTRT Approved Biosecurity Treatments”:
  www.biosecurity.govt.nz/files/regs/stds/bnz-std-abtrt.pdf

• Standard “PIT-GFP-ISR Grain for Processing, Import System Requirements”:
  www.biosecurity.govt.nz/files/ihs/pit-gfp-isr.pdf

• Standard “PIT-GMO-ALGMOT Approval of Laboratories for Genetically Modified Organism Testing”:
  www.biosecurity.govt.nz/files/regs/imports/plants/gm-seeds/labs-gmo-testing.pdf

• Standard “BMG-STD-PESTI Requirements for the diagnosis and reporting of organisms intercepted at the border or within transitional facilities”:
  www.biosecurity.govt.nz/border/inspection-services/bmg-std-pesti.htm

• Singapore Assurance Certification Scheme (ACS) For Phytosanitary Certificate:
  www.ava.gov.sg/NR/rdonlyres/1FB21A62-549B-4673-81ED-E9B18E4312BA/13271/ACSPALNTEXPORT6.pdf

• FAO IPPC:
  www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm includes International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs)

• MPI’s Plants Biosecurity Index (PBI):
  www1.maf.govt.nz/cgi-bin/bioindex/bioindex.pl

• MPI’s Biosecurity Organisms Register for Imported Commodities (BORIC):
  www.maf.govt.nz/biosecurity-animal-welfare/pests-diseases/boric.aspx

• Schedule of Regulated (Quarantine) Weed Seeds:
  www.biosecurity.govt.nz/files/ihs/schedule-of-regulated-weed-seeds.pdf

• List of MPI approved pest free areas for Fusarium circinatum (Pine Pitch Canker):
  www.biosecurity.govt.nz/files/pests/pitch-canker/approved-pest-free-areas.pdf

• Protocol for Testing Seed Imports for the Presence of Genetically Modified Seed:
  www.biosecurity.govt.nz/files/regs/imports/plants/gm-seeds/seed-testing-protocol.pdf

• International Rules for Seed Testing (Edition 2013) – a copy is available for reading free of charge at the Ministry for Primary Industries, Pastoral House, 25 The Terrace, Wellington:
  www.seedtest.org/en/international-rules--content---1--1083.html

• International Maritime Organisation – Biofouling guidelines:
  www.biosecurity.govt.nz/files/enter/ships/2011-imo-biofouling-guidelines.pdf

The following address is:

(a) where comments on this proposal to incorporate material by reference are to be sent;

and

(b) where the material incorporated can be viewed free of charge:

ACVM Group, Ministry for Primary Industries, Pastoral House, 25 The Terrace, Wellington 6011. Postal Address: PO Box 2526, Wellington 6140.