PUBLIC HEALTH

Law 26,888

National Programme for the Prevention of Disease HLB. Creation. Sanctioned: September 11, 2013 Enacted in Fact: October 2, 2013

The Senate and Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation, meeting in Congress, etc., are sanctioned by law:

NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR THE PREVENTION OF HLB DISEASE OF CITRUS FRUITS

Chapter I

Object, scope and scope

Article 1-This law aims at the creation of the National Program for the Prevention of Disease HLB (Huanglongbing or greening of citrus fruits), whose insect vector is the Asian psilide of citrus (Diaphorina citri).

ARTICLE 2-For the purposes of this Law, qualify as "quarantine pest" to the bacterial agent of HLB (Candidatus liberobacter spp), as provided for in Article 2 of Law 25.218 of Accession to the International Convention of Phytosanitary Protection.

ARTICLE 3-Public utility of the fight against the plague called Asian psilide of citrus fruits -Diaphorina citri-and other associated hemipters, covered by the regulations concerning production, transport and marketing citricola.

ARTICLE 4-The national program of prevention created by this law and the measures derived from it, will be mandatory in all provinces where there is commercial production of citrus fruits.

ARTICLE 5-The activities of the National Program of Prevention of HLB will refer to: 1. Increased control and other prevention actions at border crossings, port terminals and airports. 2. Implementation of national and regional press and dissemination campaigns to provide the general population and the citricola sector in particular with the necessary knowledge concerning the basic forecasts to be taken by the actors involved and raising awareness about gravity

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potential of the problem. 3. To train the personnel of the official and private institutions in systems of detection and diagnosis of the disease in the field and in the laboratory. 4. Control the production and marketing of plant species susceptible to HLB and the vector Diaphorina citri (psilido). 5. To require the use of nurseries under the cover of anti-afide cover and the placing on the market of citrus plants certified in accordance with the SAGPyA Resolution 149/98 and those other that replace or modify it.

ARTICLE 6-It is necessary to establish, as a mandatory complaint, the presence of citrus plants with suspected symptoms of the disease, the complaint will be carried out in a manner that is carried out by the owners, holders or holders of the property, occupants, As well as any other responsible for those places where citrus plants exist, both in rural and urban areas, to the National System of Surveillance and Monitoring of Agricultural Pest of SENASA (Sinavimo) created by resolution SENASA 218/02 and in compliance with resolutions SENASA 778/04 and 458/05 and those other to replace or modify them.

Article 7-The confirmation of the suspicions or denunciations must be carried out by the network of laboratories belonging to SENASA, INTA, to the Experimental Agroindustrial Station "Bishop Collares" (EEAOC) and universities.

ARTICLE 8-For the purpose of supplementing the research and transfer projects developed in this thematic area, the National Prevention Program will process the data originating from the studies before 1 December of each year. performed in the relief activities performed by the same disease as well as the vector insect, according to the following items: (a) Detailed information on the areas in which plant-health measures have been applied relating to the insect vector and the results of its implementation, broken down according to the type of measure applied, with an assessment of the effectiveness obtained in the control of the stocks of the plant; b) Registration of approved nurseries and plant traceability.

Chapter II

Of the implementing authority

Article 9º-The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Nation, through the National Service for Health and Agro-Food Quality (SENASA), who will regulate and implement the National Program, will be the enforcement authority of this law. created in this law.

ARTICLE 10. -The National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA), the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INASE), the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INASE), the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INASE), will coordinate an interinstitutional work team. Experimental Agroindustrial Station "Bishop Collares" (EEAOC) and other official research centers, universities, provincial governments, representatives of the private sector and provincial public of the regions of the Argentine Northeast (NEA) and Northwest Argentina (NOA), and any institution linked to the national citricola sector; it shall establish plant protection procedures, prevention measures, monitoring, alarm services and

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the most appropriate control to be implemented by the National Program for the Prevention of Disease HLB.

Chapter III

Coordination and financing

ARTICLE 11. -The overall coordination of the National Program for the Prevention of Disease HLB of the Citrus will be carried out by SENASA. The National System of Surveillance and Monitoring of Pest (Sinavimo) will keep updated the information derived from the activity detailed in article 6 ° of this law, which will be of public knowledge through the official portal of the coordinating body.

ARTICLE 12. -The Ministry of Economy and Public Finance, within the limits established by the available items for these purposes, will finance the preventive measures and the corresponding phytosanitary treatments for the reduction of the population of the pest in the amount of up to 70% (70%) of the expenditure, on the basis of the information provided by the implementing authority.

ARTICLE 13. -The amount of state funds provided for in the national budget for the implementation of the National Program for the Prevention of Disease HLB of the Citrus, will be distributed according to the following indicative criteria: (a) the distribution of the costs of fighting against recurring citrus pests in previous years; b) Data from early attacks of citrus pests in previous years, giving priority to the adoption of measures in those areas (c) Measures to be taken by the affected provinces in the relevant financial year and the expected situation likely to affect the origin and progression of the pest.

Chapter IV

General provisions

ARTICLE 14. -The provisions of this law will have the character of basic regulations, in accordance with the relevant constitutional norms.

ARTICLE 15. -The expenses that will be demanded by the National Program for the Prevention of the HLB Disease of the Citrus, prior to its regulation, will be assigned to the National Treasury in accordance with Article 75, paragraph 9 of the National Constitution.

ARTICLE 16. -The Ministry of Economy and Public Finance should be empowered to make the necessary provisions for the development of this law in the field of its powers.

ARTICLE 17. -Contact the national executive branch.

GIVEN IN THE SESSION HALL OF THE ARGENTINE CONGRESS, IN BUENOS AIRES, AT THE ELEVEN

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THE DAYS OF SEPTEMBER OF THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN.

-REGISTERED UNDER NO 26,888-

BELOVED BOUDOU. -JULIAN A. DOMINGUEZ. -Gervasio Bozzano. -Juan H. Estrada.

Date of publication: 04/10/2013

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