The following conditions may be described as Non-compliance under the Phytosanitary Control System:
- Invalid Phytosanitary certificates
Reasons for rejecting a Phytosanitary certificate and/or for requesting additional information include:
 
- illegible
 
- incomplete
 
- period of validity expired or not complied with
 
- inclusion of unauthorized alterations or erasures
 
- inclusion of conflicting or inconsistent information
 
- use of wording that is inconsistent with the model
 
- certificates herein certification of prohibited products
 
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non-certified copies.
 
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Fraudulent certificates
Fraudulent certificates include those:
 
- not authorized by the NPPO
 
- issued on forms not authorized by the issuing NPPO
 
- issued by persons or organizations or other entities that are not authorized by NPPO
 
- containing false or misleading information.