APPENDIX A

QUESTIONNAIRE:

GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES FOR CITRUS BLACK SPOT (CBS/Guignardia citricarpa) MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL

Please answer the following CBS management questions by ticking appropriate block (√). The producer must maintain the indicated records and be able to provide them on request.

(Note: "you" or "your" refers to the producer responsible for the production unit in question)

Y = Yes, N = No, NA = Not applicable)

QUESTION NO. / QUESTION / ANSWER (√) /
/ Y / N / NA /
1. / Propagation Material
Did your propagation material:
(a)  Originate from an area that is officially declared CBS free; or
(b)  tested to confirm its status as CBS free?
2. / CBS Status of Production Area
2.1 / Is the production unit situated in an area that is officially declared CBS free? If "Yes", state its magisterial district ______
2.2 / If "No", please complete the remainder of the questionnaire
3. / Monitoring
3.1 / Are your orchards monitored for CBS by means of any kind of prediction service for CBS?
3.2 / If so, which of the following do you use:
(a)  Visual inspections?
(b)  Ethrel dip test?
(c)  Prediction modeling (from August 2002)?
(d)  Pre-harvest surveys?
4. / Spraying programmme
4.1 / Do you follow a recognized disease control program for CBS?
4.2 / Do you calibrate the chemical application equipment used?
4.3 / Is the calibration sufficient to ensure that the correct amount of chemicals is applied, and to ensure total coverage of the fruit?
4.4 / Do you follow an approved resistance management programme?
4.5 / Have your orchards been tested for resistance?
4.6 / Is spore trapping used to improve the timing of your spraying programme?
5. / Orchard selection
Do you only select orchards for export to CBS sensitive markets in which CBS does not occur?
6. / Orchard sanitation
Are CBS infected plant residues (leaves, fruit) in your orchards:
6.1 / (a)  Removed by means of an effective orchard sanitation programme?
6.2 / (b) Rendered non-infective through a chemical treatment or cultural practice?
7. / Packing house
7.1 / Have the graders in your packing house been trained to identify CBS?
7.2 / Do you monitor packing lines and packaging cartons to ensure that CBS has been effectively eliminated?
7.3 / Do you decrease the speed of the packing lines in the packing house to improve inspections by graders?
8. / Traceability
Is your final packaged product traceable to the correct orchard?
9. / Inspections
If CBS is found during inspections, is there any system in place to ensure that the fruit does not go to a CBS sensitive market?
10. / Records
Do you certify that the following records are kept in good order and are available at all times for inspection on request:
10.1 / Production records
- List of orchards?
- Scouting (monitoring)/Pre-harvest survey records?
- Pest management program (including spray program)?
- Calibration records for fungicide spray equipment?
- Fungicide stock records?
- Harvesting records?
- Orchard sanitation records?
- Laboratory test report regarding resistance?
10.2 / Packing house records
- Training of graders to identify CBS symptoms?
- Orchard cull analysis (CBS fruit selected and discarded)?
- Packing house fruit grading records (reasons for culling)
- Traceability system?
- Inspection results?
- Consignment records?

CONFIRMATION

Herewith I ______(full name in print),

in my capacity as ______

(e.g. producer, farm owner, manager etc.), declare that I take full responsibility for, and comply with, all the requirements prescribed for exporting citrus fruit to the EU.

Regarding Citrus Black Spot (CBS: Guignardia citricarpa), I declare that:

(Please tick off one applicable block):

1.  All the relevant fruit originate from the designated CBS- free area(s)

in the Western Cape, namely the magisterial districts of Bellville, Bredasdorp, Caledon, Cape, Ceres, Clanwilliam, Goodwood, Grabouw, Heidelberg, Hermanus, Hopefield, Kuilsrivier, Ladismith, Malmesbury, Mitchell’s Plain, Montagu, Moorreesburg, Paarl, Piketberg, Robertson, Somerset-West, Stellenbosch, Strand, Swellendam, Tulbagh, Villiersdorp, Vredenburg, Wellington, Worcester and Wynberg ,and the two magisterial

districts Hartswater and Warrenton in the Northern Cape

2.  All the relevant fruit originate from orchards in areas of low pest

Incidence namely the, Kat River, George, Knysna, Tshipise and Weipi.

3.  All the relevant fruit originate from the rest of South Africa: areas of

high pest incidence.

Signature: ______

Date: ______

Organization: ______