2691) Celebration of World Wildlife Day 2015: Wildlife crime is serious

3 March is the World Wildlife Day.

2692) The list of adopted DPs is growing! Potato spindle tuber viroid PSTVd) is adopted.

The Standards Committee (SC) on behalf of the CPM has adopted one new Diagnostic Protocol (DP): Annex to ISPM 27. …

2693) Member consultation on draft Diagnostic Protocols open!

The following draft DPs were submitted for member consultation through the Online Comment System from 30 January to 30 June …

2694) Online Comment System: Request For Information posted on UNGM website!

The IPPC Secretariat through the FAO Procurement team has submitted a Request For Information through a Public Notice on the …

2695) IPPC Secretariat Meets with CBD Executive Secretary

(Rome, 20 January 2015). Members of the IPPC Secretariat met with Convention on Biological Diversity Executive Secretary Dr. Braulio Dias …

2696) The NRO Newsletter: NROs UPDATE

Since October 2014 the IPPC Secretariat has been distributing a monthly newsletter on National Reporting Obligations called the NROs UPDATE. …

2697) Update on citrus canker eradication program in Emerald, Queensland - now eradicated

Citrus canker was detected on three commercial citrus orchards in the Emerald district of Queensland between June 2004 and May …

2698) First outbreak of Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. phaseoli in the Czech Republic

In March 2007, the SPA carried out surveillance in a company storing seed of Phaseolus vulgaris . Seed of several …

2699) The report from the 5th meeting of the Capacity Development Committee CDC) is now posted!

The fifth meeting of the Capacity Development Committee was held in Rome, Italy, on the 1st-5th December 2014.

2700) Providing Strategic Foresight for the Next 20 Years

The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Strategic Planning Group (SPG) meeting took place from 7-10 October 2014 in Rome, Italy, …