361) Now available: Compiled comments from 2024 IPPC consultation period on draft standards and specifications

The IPPC Secretariat is pleased to inform the plant health community that compiled comments from the 2024 IPPC consultation period …

362) Revised draft phytosanitary standard expected to protect plants, global trade from fruit flies

Members of the Expert Working Group on (ISPM) 26 - Establishment of pest free areas for fruit flies (Tephritidae)

363) About / Core Activities / Implementation & Capacity Development / IPPC Guides and Training Materials / How guides and training materials are developed / Emergency preparedness guide (2019-012)

Emergency preparedness: A guide for developing contingency plans for outbreaks of quarantine pests (2019-012) Published in April 2023: https://doi.org/10.4060/cc4820en This …

364) Now available: Report of the May 2024 Implementation and Capacity Development Committee Meeting

The IPPC Secretariat is pleased to provide the Implementation and Capacity Development Committee (IC) May 2024 meeting report, which is …

365) Order on the emergency phytosanitary measures for the prevention of the introduction and spread and for the eradication of the Grapevine Flavescence Dorée phytoplasma

Order on the emergency phytosanitary measures for the prevention of the introduction and spread and for the eradication of the …

366) News & Events / Webinars / Webinar on the IPPC ePhyto Solution in African countries (21 June 2023)

Thank you for participating in the Webinar! Wednesday, 21 June 2023, 14:00-16:30 (GMT+2) The presentations are available below Recording is …

367) UPDATE pest report June 2016 Identity confirmed: Hemitarsonemus ganeo (fern mite) instead of Hemitarsonemus tepidariorum (pest report March) Wider distribution on ferns outdoors (Polypodium vulgare, Dryopteris carthusiana, Dryopteris filix-mas, and Athyrium filix-femina). Single detection on plants for planting of Platycerium alcicorne (fern plants) in a production greenhouse.

The identity of Hemitarsonemus ganeo could be confirmed on plants for planting of (fern plants) in a production greenhouse, which …

368) Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) on Solanum jasminoides and Brugmansia spp. ornamental plants.

This report concerns new findings of PSTVd on several companies growing ornamental plants of Solanaceae in the Netherlands. The PSTVd …

369) SPOTLIGHT: Leaving the old, embracing the new: Uganda’s success with ePhyto

Agriculture is the lifeblood of Uganda’s economy. Seven in 10 Ugandans are employed in agriculture. Agriculture is responsible for 24 …

370) SPOTLIGHT: IPPC ePhyto Solution supports Argentina’s paperless export trade

In 2009, Argentina decided to adopt electronic phytosanitary certification of agricultural products to facilitate faster and safer trade with other …