391) Blog: Setting standards for plant health: Looking back and planning ahead

In November 2022, the Standards Committee (SC) held a hybrid meeting, the first face-to-face meeting since the year prior. Although …

392) The second virtual meeting of the IPPC Secretariat’s staff held to continuously advance its work programme during the Covid-19 pandemic

Rome, 11 June 2020 – The IPPC Secretariat organized the second virtual briefing to continuously advance its work programme during …

393) Commission / CPM Focus Group and Working Group Reports / CPM Focus Group on Sea Containers

Background In 2015, the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM) agreed on a five-year hiatus from pursuing the development of a …

394) Let’s talk about commodity standards - CPM adopts standards on safe trade in plants and plant products

Rome, 8 April 2022. The Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM) adopted yesterday the International Standard for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPM) number …

395) Strategic Objectives / Plant Health & Safe Trade / Trade facilitation

Trade facilitation - the simplification, modernization and harmonization of export and import processes - has emerged as an important issue …

396) Update on Emergency measures against CBCVd and HSVd on hop (Humulus lupulus)

Severe hop stunt disease was observed in 2007 on hops Humulus lupulus, grown as perennial industrial crop in Slovenia. On …

397) Meloidogyne enterolobii (Guava root knot nematode) in the NT and QLD

On 2 September 2022, M. enterolobii was detected in the greater Darwin region of the Northern Territory (NT). Following delimiting …

398) The International Forestry Quarantine Research Group Holds its 21st Annual Meeting in FAO HQ

Rome, 04 November 2024. The 21st Annual meeting of the International Forest Quarantine Research Group (IFQRG) convened in FAO HQ. …

399) Lucien Kouame Konan

For more than 35 years, Konan has been working on various aspects of the phytosanitary field. As former Chair of …

400) IPPC EWG Meeting: Reorganization and revision of pest risk analysis standards

Milan, 11 November 2022 – The Expert Working Group (EWG) for the reorganization and revision of pest risk analysis (PRA) …