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IMPORTANCE OF PEST REPORTING:
THE EPPO EXPERIENCE
Muriel Suffert
EPPO Secretariat
EPPO/NEPPO Workshop on Surveillance
Algeria, 2012–09-18/20

REPORTING OBLIGATIONS
TO EPPO

Reporting obligations
EPPO Convention
Article VI. - Obligations of Member Governments
a. Member Governments shall furnish to the
Organization so far as is practicable such
information as the Organization may
reasonably require in order to carry out its
functions, including in particular the
information referred to in Article V f1 and V
f2.

Reporting obligations
EPPO Convention
Article V. – Functions
The functions of the Organization shall be:
f. to disseminate information by
– 1. obtaining information from Member Governments on
the existence, outbreak or spread of pests, and
conveying such information to Member Governments;
– 2. providing for the exchange of information on national
phytosanitary legislation, lists of regulated pests, or
other measures affecting the free movement of plants
and plant products;
– 3. establishing a documentation and information service
and publishing in an appropriate form material for
technical or scientific advancement;

Reporting obligations
IPPC Article IX on RPPOs
2. The regional plant protection organizations
shall function as the coordinating bodies in
the areas covered, shall participate in
various activities to achieve the objectives of
this Convention and, where appropriate,
shall gather and disseminate information.

HOW EPPO DEALS WITH
PEST REPORTS?

Why collect pest reports?
• To inform all EPPO member countries about
new introductions, new outbreaks, eradication
• To initiate EPPO activities on Pest Risk
Analysis, pest listing, preparation of pestspecific
standards

What is reported to EPPO by NPPOs?
• New introductions and outbreaks of regulated pests
• Eradication of regulated pests
• Updates about the situation of regulated pests
• Emergence of new phytosanitary problems
• Notifications of non-compliance (interceptions) – via
EUROPHYT for EU member states and Switzerland
• Phytosanitary regulations and lists of quarantine
pests

Reporting pest status
EPPO encourages its member countries to report
official pest status using the terms of ISPM 8
In the EPPO Reporting Service and in PQR, there is a
distinction between:
pest situation (interpretation by the EPPO
Secretariat)
pest status (official declaration made by the
country)

Pest reporting
How to deal with diverse sources and formats?
Information is summarized, harmonized, put back into its
general context (checking what was the situation before) by
the EPPO Secretariat when it is published in the EPPO
Reporting service or entered into PQR

EPPO Standard: Format for pest reports
Harmonized format for
pest reports (compatible
with the FAO format)
adopted in September
2011.
EPPO member countries
have started using this
format to send EPPO
official pest reports.

EPPO Format for pest reports
Future plans
EPPO Standard PM 1/5: first step towards harmonization of
pest report contents
Discussions should continue with IPPC to improve information
exchange and facilitate the task of NPPOs on pest reporting
• Develop a web-based interface to allow member
countries to send their pest reports electronically to the
EPPO Secretariat
• Explore the IT solutions that would allow rapid and easy
exchange of information with other bodies collecting
pest reports (IPPC and EU) - e.g. xml format?

COLLECTION OF OTHER
DATA

Collection of non-official data
• Peer-reviewed international
journals
• CAB Plant Protection Database
• National journals
e.g. Annali della facolta di agraria,
Acta Entomologica Sinica,
Entomologia Croatica, Gesunde
Pflanzen, Novényvédelem, Ochrona
Roslin, Phytoma, Zashchita Rastenii...
Over 100 publications reviewed!
• Conference proceedings
• Books
• Internet ressources

Data collection via EPPO network
• Experts from Panels
-Panels specialized on pests (diagnostics)
-Panels dedicated to forestry, potato
• Network of scientists

DISSEMINATION OF
INFORMATION
http://www.eppo.int/

EPPO convention (18th of April 1951)
Article V. – Functions
The functions of the Organization shall be:
f. to disseminate information by:
1. obtaining information from Member Governments on the
existence, outbreak or spread of pests, and conveying such
information to Member Governments;
2. providing for the exchange of information on national
phytosanitary legislation, lists of regulated pests, or other
measures affecting the free movement of plants and plant
products;
3. establishing a documentation and information service and
publishing in an appropriate form material for technical or
scientific advancement;

Information flow within EPPO
Official pest reports
from NPPOs Literature,
Internet surveys
Stored data

Early warning: the EPPO Alert List
• Initiated in 1999
• Provides early
warning
• Suggests possible
candidates for Pest
Risk Analysis
It provides
information on:
• distribution,
• host plants,
• biology,
• damage,
• transmission,
• pathway,
• possible risks
Critically reviewed every year (when alert has been given and no
further action taken, pests are deleted after 3 years on the list)
Freely available on the EPPO website: www.eppo.int

EPPO Reporting Service
More than 60 years of existence…
One of the first
issues of the
EPPO Reporting
Service (1955)

EPPO Reporting Service: a free monthly newsletter
It contains:
New data on biology, host plants, diagnostic
methods and geographical distribution of
quarantine pests and pests of potential
quarantine significance
Interception reports
Additions to the EPPO Alert List, etc.
2500
2000
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2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
RS EN
RS FR
Available by e-mail

EPPO Reporting Service: example of a first record

EPPO Reporting Service: interceptions

PQR Database new version
Plant Quarantine data Retrieval system
A database which contains information on many plant pests (EPPO A1/A2
listed pests, EU regulated pests, and some pests that regulated in other
parts of the world), as well as on invasive alien plants
- Basic data (names, taxonomic position, EPPO codes)
- Host plants
- Geographical distribution
- Plant commodities liable to carry quarantine pests
- Categorization
http://www.eppo.int/DATABASES/pqr/pqr.htm
http://newpqr.eppo.org/download.php

New features

Distribution maps

Pictures

Host plants / pathways

Categorization

Collection of phytosanitary regulations

Future plans: EPPO Global Database
Pest-specific documents
Data sheets
Pictures
Reporting Service
Pest Risk Analysis
Diagnostic expertise
Laboratories & Experts
PQR data
Host plants
Distribution lists & maps
Categorization
EPPO
Codes
Pest-specific Standards
National Regulatory control systems
Diagnostic protocols
Phytosanitary treatments
EPPT data
Plant & pest names
Elements of taxonomy
EPPO codes

Use of information to improve surveillance
• Adapt import inspection based on noncompliance
reports
• Adapt surveillance plans if pest oubreaks
are reported (e.g. in neighbouring
countries)
• Initiate surveys in link with emerging pests

Conclusion
• Pest reports are an important source of
reliable information
• EPPO collect and process information to
make it more readily available to users
• Sharing results of surveillance programmes is
crucial to protect plants at global scale

Thank you for your attention