ISPM No. 2 "Guidelines for Pest Risk Analysis" (revision)

FAO Conference adopted ISPM No. 2 (Guidelines for Pest Risk Analysis) in 1995. This was before the revision of the IPPC in 1997 and also before many National Plant Protection Organizations had experience with pest risk analysis. Subsequent revision of the IPPC and the rapid advancement of pest risk analysis in practice create the need for updating the guidance provided by ISPM No.2. In particular, the standard provides no guidance in certain situations such as regulated non-quarantine pests, LMOs or biological control agents, and it has certain key deficiencies such as not considering the feasibility of measures in risk management.

ISPM No.2 describes the process of pest risk analysis for phytosanitary purposes. The standard should provide general and conceptual guidance to pest risk analysis and an introduction to the more specific standards dealing with risk analysis under the IPPC.

The Expert Working Group should undertake a review of ISPM No.2 with the aim of reformulation into a new standard, general guidelines for PRA for phytosanitary purposes.

Working Group members: Steward: Mr Suparno Sa (Indonesia), [email protected] IPPC Contact: Mr Brent Larson, [email protected] Mr Alan Pemberton (UK), [email protected] Mr Ebbe Nordbo (Denmark), [email protected] Ms Velia Arriagada (Chile), [email protected] Mr Allan Auclair (USA), [email protected] Ms Xu Yan (China), [email protected] or [email protected] Mr Moses Kairo (CABI), [email protected]

Updated 19/12/2003

Type: Expert Working Group

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