In accordance with the IPPC Strategic Framework 2012-2019, the IPPC vision to protect the world's plant resources from pests is achieved through four strategic objectives:
To address these strategic objectives, four annual themes for the IPPC community have been introduced in 2015 to promote on an annual basis specific aspects of the IPPC mandate. For the period 2016-2019 the IPPC will focus on the following themes:
