Posted on Fri, 03 Feb 2023, 07:52
Rome 17/01/2023. The 2023 annual meeting of The Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was held in FAO Headquarters on 17 January, with a focus on Optimization and …
Read morePosted on Mon, 23 Jan 2023, 10:19
Rome, 17 January 2023. The ePhyto Solution of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) continued to reach new milestones with three million certificates exchanged since its pilot in 2017. ePhyto certificates are digital formats of paper phytosanitary certificates attesting …
Read morePosted on Mon, 23 Jan 2023, 10:17
Tokyo, 23 January 2023. With fresh mango fruit being widely traded across the globe, the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) convenes a technical panel of experts to develop harmonized standards to facilitate the safe and consistent trade of fresh …
Read morePosted on Fri, 16 Dec 2022, 12:11
Tashkent, Uzbekistan. 16 December 2022. International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) Secretary Osama El-Lissy met the Director General of Uzbekistan’s Plant Quarantine and Protection Agency, Ibrahim Ergashev, and praised the significant work being carried on by the agency towards the …
Read morePosted on Fri, 16 Dec 2022, 12:10
Rome, 16 December 2022. The Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM) Focus Group on Communications has concluded the year with the draft Communications Strategy 2023-2030 that will guide the communication and advocacy of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) community. …
Read morePosted on Fri, 16 Dec 2022, 12:09
Rome, 16 December 2022. The IPPC Technical Panel on Commodity Standards (TPCS) of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) held its second virtual meeting on 1 December to discuss the recently approved Specification 73 on the International movement of fresh …
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Rome, 16 December 2022. The Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM) Focus Group on Safe Provision of Food and Other Humanitarian Aid (FGFA) concluded its second meeting to discuss submitted materials on imported consignments of humanitarian aid. Held virtually on …
Read morePosted on Fri, 16 Dec 2022, 12:05
Santiago, Chile. 16 December 2022. The IPPC Technical Panel for the Glossary (TPG) concluded its annual meeting on 2 December held in person in Santiago, Chile. The Panel has successfully reviewed all the terms and the definition that are currently …
Read morePosted on Wed, 14 Dec 2022, 12:45
Rome, 13 December 2022. The IPPC Secretariate held the face-to-face portion of the 2022 Phytosanitary Capacity Evaluation (PCE) facilitator training course in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, from 28 November to 7 December 2022. Nine trainees from eight countries …
Read morePosted on Wed, 14 Dec 2022, 12:36
Rome, 12 December 2022. The Implementation Committee (IC) of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) met in Rome on 21-25 November to review the progress of the Committee’s workplan for the year. This was the IC’s first in-person meeting …
Read morePosted on Tue, 13 Dec 2022, 08:03
07/12/2022 Washington, DC – Osama El-Lissy, Secretary of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), held high-level meetings during the week of November 28 in Ottawa, Canada and Washington, DC.
In discussions with leaders of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Agriculture …
Read morePosted on Mon, 28 Nov 2022, 12:57
Rome, 28 November 2022. The Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM) Bureau, held its first in-person meeting since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic to discuss key IPPC activities in preparation for the CPM 17th session to be held …
Read morePosted on Fri, 25 Nov 2022, 09:01
Rome, 24 November 2022. The Technical Panel on Glossary (TPG) of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) is gathering for its annual meeting from 28 November to 2 December 2022 at the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) …
Read morePosted on Fri, 18 Nov 2022, 08:53
Milan, 11 November 2022 – The Expert Working Group (EWG) for the reorganization and revision of pest risk analysis (PRA) standards completed their task based on the approved Specification 72.
The Standards Committee (SC) decided it was time to …
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