Low pest prevalence

The concept of low pest prevalence is addressed in the IPPC and the WTO-SPS Agreement and the standard should take into account provisions for regionalization as well as least trade restrictive measures under both the IPPC and the WTO-SPS Agreement.

The Expert Working Group should develop a draft ISPM to provide guidance on the application of the concept of areas of low pest prevalence in the context of the application of phytosanitary measures, particularly in pest risk management, and its relationship to the use of least trade restrictive measures.

Among others, the Expert Working Group should give attention to: criteria for defining, describing and determining areas of low pest prevalence; consideration of the need for guidance on surveillance, monitoring and maintenance procedures with a view to establishing, maintaining and verifying areas of low pest prevalence and to use these in pest risk management; consideration of regulatory concepts, relationship of official control and areas of low pest prevalence, relevance of the concept to regulated non-quarantine pests.

Working Group members: Steward: Narcy Klag (USA), [email protected] IPPC contact : Brent Larson, [email protected] Lars Hendriksen (Denmark), [email protected] or [email protected] José Luis Zavala (Mexico), [email protected] Soledad Castro (Chile), [email protected] Jacqueline Wright (Secretariat of the Pacific Community), [email protected] Arundel Sakala (Zambia), [email protected] or [email protected]

Updated 02/12/2003

Type: Expert Working Group

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