REQUIREMENTS FOR THE IMPORT OF PRESCRIBED POTENTIAL CARRIERS OF THE DECLARED PEST TOBAMOVIRUS FRUCTIRUGOSUM

Declared pest

Tobamovirus fructirugosum (tomato brown rugose fruit virus, ToBRFV)

Prescribed potential carriers of Tobamovirus fructirugosum

Fruit, nursery stock, and seed for planting of ToBRFV hosts listed in Table 1 and used containers/packaging and used machinery and equipment.

Table 1 – Host of Tobamovirus fructirugosum

Tomato	Solanum lycopersicum and hybrids
Capsicum and chilli	Capsicum spp.

Definitions

Approved seed ToBRFV testing program means a program of sampling and testing of seed for ToBRFV to provide 99% confidence of detecting an infection at a rate of 0.02% of seed. Each seed lot must be sampled based on a rate of 20,000 seed or 20% of seed of the lot, whichever is higher, with ToBRFV not detected.

Approved testing method means testing by an accredited laboratory, performed to the EPPO diagnostic protocol standard for ToBRFV. Accepted laboratories are:

• AgriBio Crop Health Services, Victoria
• Plant Health Diagnostics Services, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural institute, NSW
• SARDI Plant Research Centre Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, South Australia; or
• Other laboratories where accepted by the Chief Plant Biosecurity Officer WA

Assessed negative property mean a property that was a ToBRFV associated property and has been cleared of suspicion of infection by the Chief Plant Health Manager for that state or territory and is subject to restrictions that prevent the introduction of ToBRFV to that property.

Authorised inspector means an inspector authorised under the relevant Biosecurity Act of that state or territory.

Pest free place of production means a place of production in which absence of ToBRFV is established and maintained in accordance with ISPM 10.

Pest free production site means a production site in which absence of ToBRFV is established and maintained in accordance with ISPM 10.

Production facility means an individual field block, hot house, greenhouse or similar within a place of production.

Property means

(a)    a parcel of land (lot on plan), or

(b)    several parcels of land which

                  i.        are contiguous with one another or are separated from one another only by a road, river, creek, other watercourse, or similar, and

                 ii.        constitute or worked as a single enterprise regardless of ownership or lease arrangements.

Re-consigned means the forwarding of whole consignments or sub-consignments.

Re-consigned secure conditions means:

• all seed intended for repackaging or splitting must remain in original packaging with original labelling until repacking or splitting into final packages, and
• equipment used during the process must be clean and visibly free from plant material and have appropriate waste removal processes in place, and
• each seed lot must be split or repackaged under conditions that prevent contamination by other seed lots through the entire process, and
• all packages to be re-consigned must be labelled with the packaging identification of the originally imported consignment, and
• a business must maintain a traceability record that enables seed to be traced back to the original import.

Splitting a consignment means that act of dividing a consignment into sub-consignments for the purpose of sending to a different receiver or consignee.

Seed of tomato, capsicum and chilli

To be imported into Western Australia, one of the following alternatives must be satisfied:

1.    Seed has been

1.1.  produced and packed in a state or territory that is free from ToBRFV as evidenced by an Area Freedom Certificate approved by the Chief Plant Biosecurity Officer WA, and

1.2.  accompanied by a declaration by the exporter that identifies the state or territory, name and postcode of the city or town nearest to the place where the seed was produced and packed.

OR

2.    Each consignment must be accompanied by an Interstate Plant Health Certificate issued by the quarantine authority in the exporting state or territory or a certificate issued under a quality assurance arrangement approved by the Chief Plant Biosecurity Officer WA certifying that the following requirement has been met:

2.1.  Seed has been tested in accordance with an approved seed ToBRFV testing program and found free from ToBRFV.

OR

3.    For seed that originated from overseas and met Australian Government import requirements for pre-import or post-import testing for ToBRFV, each consignment to be:

3.1.  in original packaging that states the country of origin; and

3.2.  accompanied by a copy of the import clearance issued by the Australian Government dated on, or after 5 March 2019.

OR

4.    For seed originating from overseas, each consignment to be:

4.1.  Accompanied by an Interstate Plant Health Certificate issued by the quarantine authority in the exporting state or territory or under a quality assurance arrangement approved by the Chief Plant Biosecurity Officer WA certifying that:

4.1.1.    The consignment has been re-consigned as a repacked or split consignment, in accordance with the re-consigned secure conditions approved by the Chief Plant Biosecurity Officer WA.

AND

4.1.2.    Accompanied by a copy of the import clearance issued by the Australian Government dated on, or after 5 March 2019.