ISPM 15 - Wood Packaging Material Certification Scheme

Disclaimer

The information in this standard is provided on the following basis. The phytosanitary requirements found in this standard may be used as the basis of export certification. However, requirements may be changed by importing countries at any time at short notice or with no notice to New Zealand. This information is provided strictly on the basis that the Crown, the Ministry for Primary Industries, its statutory officers, employees, agents and all other persons responsible for or associated with the compilation, writing, editing, approval or publication of the information:

  1. disclaim any and all responsibility for any inaccuracy, error, omission, lateness, or any other kind of inadequacy, deficiency or flaw in, or in relation to, the information; and
  2. without limiting (1) above, fully exclude any and all liability of any kind on the part of all of them, to any person or entity that chooses to rely on this information

Compliance with this scheme is not to be taken as a guarantee that any particular goods will be granted access to any overseas market.

Updated 7 May 2013

Definitions

Please see ISPM 5 (offsite link to www.ippc.int) for the definitions of the following terms: bark, debarked wood, dunnage, ISPM, mark, treatment, wood and wood packaging material.

Country ISPM 15 Requirements: Information from a number of export markets for New Zealand goods accompanied by wood packaging material (including dunnage) suggests the following revised dates for their implementation of ISPM 15:

Country

Enforcement Date

Requirements

Algeria

11 April 2010

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Argentina

01 June 2006

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 


Australia

Containerised
01 September 2004

Break bulk and air

01 May 2006

Wood packaging material should be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. ISPM 15 declaration required on packing declaration (offsite link to www.daff.gov.au) for containerised seafreight.

Wood packaging material not treated in accordance with ISPM 15 must be treated and certified in accordance with DAFF requirements.

For DAFF purposes, ISPM 15 compliant wood packaging does not need to satisfy the AQIS 21 day rule. There is no limitation on time between treatment and shipping.

Bolivia

24 May 2005

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Canada

01 February 2006

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Chile

01 June 2005

Wood packaging material should be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 
A Phytosanitary certificate will be accepted in lieu of the ISPM 15 mark.

China

01 January 2006

Wood packaging material should be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 
A Phytosanitary certificate will be accepted in lieu of the ISPM 15 mark.

Columbia

15 September 2005

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 


Costa Rica


01 January 2005

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

A Phytosanitary certificate that meets requirements for sawn timber will be accepted in lieu of the ISPM 15 mark, and is mandatory for consignments consisting of wood packaging.

In addition, Costa Rica requires a mark of (TT) for heat treatment or (BM) for Methyl bromide fumigation.

Cuba

01 October 2008

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Dominican Republic

01 July 2006

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Ecuador

30 September 2005

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 


Egypt


06 September 2005

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

European Union
(and
Switzerland)

01 March 2005

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 
A Phytosanitary certificate that meets requirements for sawn timber is mandatory for consignments consisting of wood packaging.
Fiji January 2013

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 


French Polynesia


06 December 2007

Wood packaging material should be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. A Phytosanitary certificate will be accepted in lieu of the ISPM 15 mark.


Guatemala


26 January 2005

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 
Guatemala’s regulation is reciprocal based on exporting country requirements. 

Hong Kong

 

Not likely to implement.

Honduras

25 February 2006

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 


India


01 November 2004

Wood packaging material should be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 
A Phytosanitary certificate will be accepted in lieu of the ISPM 15 mark.

Indonesia

 

No official confirmation received.

Jamaica

01 March 2011

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15.
Non-compliant ship borne dunnage must be secured so that pests may not escape while in Jamaican waters (eg. under tarp, cover, within closed holds, containers or bins).

Japan

01 April 2007

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Jordan

17 November 2005

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Lebanon

01 July 2006

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Mexico

01 February 2006

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 
Mozambique 17 February 2009 Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15.

New Caledonia

01 June 2006

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Nicaragua

 

Have confirmed the adoption and the intent to enforce ISPM 15, no official enforcement date has been advised.

Norway

01 January 2008

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 


Nigeria


30 September 2004

Wood packaging material should be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 
A Phytosanitary certificate will be accepted in lieu of the ISPM 15 mark.

Oman

01 December 2006

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Panama

17 February 2005

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Paraguay

28 June 2005

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Peru

01 September 2005

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Philippines

01 June 2005

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 


Samoa

 

Wood packaging material should be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

A Phytosanitary certificate issued within 21 days of export from New Zealand, with one of the following treatments will be accepted in lieu of the ISPM 15 mark:

  • Fumigation with methyl bromide or sulphuryl fluoride at 80g/m3 for more
    than 24 continuous hours, at a minimum temperature of 10°C.
  • Phosphine fumigation at 1.41 g/m3 for 72 hours at a minimum 10°C and maximum 30°C. Filleted to 300mm maximum.
  • Heat treatment at 70°C core temperature for more than 4 hours.
  • An approved chemical preservation method.

All wood packaging material must be free of bark, quarantine pests, decay and other fungi and soil. All wood packaging material will be inspected on arrival in Samoa.

Seychelles

01 March 2006

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Singapore

 

It is not yet mandatory for wood packaging material exported to Singapore to be ISPM 15 compliant.

South
Africa

01 March 2005

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 


South
Korea


01 June 2005

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 


Sri Lanka

 

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 
There has been no confirmation of enforcement date.

Syria

01 April 2006

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Taiwan

01 January 2009

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Exemptions additional to those stated in ISPM 15 for wood packaging material:

  • That has been painted or stained;
  • That has been treated by tar or other preservatives;
  • That is used to carry deep frozen commodities (below -17.8 degrees Celsius), and remains below this temperature until arrival.


Turkey


01 January 2006

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 


Ukraine


24 January 2006

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

United
States


01 February 2006

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Vietnam

05 June 2006

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Venezuela

01 June 2005

Wood packaging material must be debarked, treated and marked in accordance with ISPM 15. 

Other
countries/regions

Information posted on this web-page as it becomes
available

 

Wood Packaging Material Certification Scheme

New Zealand wood packaging manufacturers and other organisations wishing to apply the ISPM 15 compliant registered certification mark to compliant wood packaging for export, must be registered with MPI. For more information on how to become MPI approved to apply the certification mark please visit:
http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/regs/exports/plants/stds

For more information please visit: The International Standard (ISPM 15) (offsite link to www.ippc.int)

Exporters requiring ISPM 15 compliant wood packaging material should confirm that their suppliers are currently MAF approved for ISPM 15:

List of registered manufacturers of ISPM 15 compliant wood packaging material Link to PDF document (224 KB)

Example of registered certification mark (ISPM 15):

 

 


      NZ - XXXXX
     YY

 

XXXXX

Registration number of the organization approved by MAF to apply the ISPM 15 mark.

(YY) Treatment codes:

HT

Wood packaging material has been heat treated at a core temperature of 56°C for a minimum of 30 minutes.

MB

Wood packaging material has been fumigated with methyl bromide over 24 hours at temperatures no less than 10°C to achieve required concentration-time product (CT) in accordance with ISPM 15 (2009)

For acceptable variants of the mark and for more information regarding mark specification see clause 4 of Technical Requirements: Registered Certification Mark (ISPM 15) Link to PDF document (3044 KB)

Page last updated: 8 May 2013