External Cooperation

The IPPC recognizes the importance of maintaining strong links with organizations that share common interests. These relationships can range from informal, flexible arrangements to highly defined relationships. For example, the IPPC Secretariat has strong relationships with Regional and National Plant Protection Organizations and works with them to assist contracting parties in implementing the IPPC.

The IPPC Secretariat also cooperates with many other external partners and organizations to create synergy towards achieving common goals. The current partners of the IPPC Secretariat are listed below:

No.	Organization	Abbr.	IPPC Contact Point	Partner Org Contact Point
I	UN Organizations
1	Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention	BWC	Mr Artur Shamilov	Mr Daniel Feakes
2	Codex Alimentarius	Codex	Mr Mirko Montuori	Ms Gracia Brisco
3	Convention on Biological Diversity	CBD	Mr Avetik Nersisyan	Ms Junko Shimura
4	International Atomic Energy Agency	IAEA	Ms Adriana Moreira	Mr Rui Cardoso Pereira
5	International Maritime Organization	IMO	Ms Ketevan Lomsadze	Mr Alfredo Parroquin-Ohlson
6	International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture	ITPGRFA	Mr Avetik Nersisyan	Mr Kent Nnadozie
7	Ozone Secretariat (UN Environment)		Ms Adriana Moreira	Ms Sophia Mylona
8	TSIA Technical Network		Ms Adriana Moreira	Mr Nejat Malikyar
9	United Nations Environment	UNEP	Mr Mirko Montuori	Ms Niamh Brannigan
10	United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	UNFCCC	Mr Mirko Montuori	Mr Peter Iversen
II	International Organizations
11	Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora	CITES	Mr Craig Fedchock
12	Eurasian Economic Commission	EEC	Mr Avetik Nersisyan
13	Inter American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture	IICA	Mr Descartes Koumba	Mr Robert Ahern
14	International Organization for Standardization	ISO	Ms Adriana Moreira	Mr Michael Sussman
15	International Seed Testing Association	ISTA	Ms Ketevan Lomsadze	Mr Andreas Wais
16	Standards Trade Development Facility	STDF	Mr Brent Larson	Mr Melvin Spreij
17	Universal Postal Union	UPU	Mr Mirko Montuori / Ms Barbara Peterson
18	World Animal Health Organization	OIE	Mr Jingyuan Xia
19	World Bank	WB	Mr Craig Fedchock	Mr William John Gain
20	World Customs Organization	WCO	Mr Craig Fedchock / Mr Brent Larson	Mr Ozlem Soysanli
21	World Trade Organization	WTO	Mr Jingyuan Xia / Mr Brent Larson	Mr Rolando Alcala
III	Industry/NGOs
22	Container Owners Association	COA	Ms Ketevan Lomsadze	Mr Michael Patrik Downes
23	Global Express Association	GSA	Ms Barbara Peterson	Mr Carlos Grau Tanner
24	International Grain Trade Coalition	IGTC	Mr Craig Fedchock	Ms Katy Lee
25	International Olive Council	IOC	Ms Sarah Brunel	Mr Abdellatif Ghedira
26	International Seed Federation	ISF	Ms Ketevan Lomsadze/Mr Mirko Montuori	Dr Souza Richards (Rose)
27	The Europe-Africa-Caribbean-Pacific Liaison Committee	COLEACP	Ms Sarah Brunel	Ms Morag Webb
IV	Academia/Research
28	Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International	CABI	Mr Brent Larson	Mr Washington Otieno
29	Centre international de hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes	CIHEAM	Mr Deng Arop	Ms Anna Maria Donghia
30	Entomological Society of America	ESA	Mr Deng Arop
31	Erasmus Mundus Programme of PlantHealth		Mr Arop Deng	Mr Josep Armengol Forti
32	Global Taxonomy Initiative of the CBD	GTI/CBD	Ms Adriana Moreira	Ms Junko Shimura
33	Imperial College		Ms Ketevan Lomsadze	Ms Megan Quinlan
34	International Pest Risk Research Group	IPRRG	Mr Denis Allex	Mr Alan MacLeod
35	International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences	IAPPS	Mr Deng Arop	Mr Elvis Heinrichs
36	International Forestry Quarantine Research Group	IFQRG	Mr Brent Larson	Mr Michael Ormsby
37	International Society for Plant Pathology	ISPP	Mr Deng Arop	Ms Jan Leach, Ms Lodovica Gullino
38	La Sapienza University of Rome		Mr Riccardo Mazzucchelli
39	Phytosanitary Measures Research Group (PMRG)	PMRG	Ms Adriana Moreira	Mr Peter LEACH (Chairperson) and Ms Joanne Wilson (Secretary)
40	University of Florence		Mr Deng Arop	Ms Laura Mugnai

If your organization would like to cooperate with the IPPC Secretariat, please contact us at [email protected].
Your request should outline the areas of cooperation you think would be beneficial; and provide some background documentation on your organization (Charter, Terms of Reference, website etc.).
Your request will then be submitted to the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM) Bureau for consideration and you will be contacted in due course.

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Organizations with a webpage on the IPP

FAO Regional Plant Protection and Production Officers