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global trade. With this workshop he hoped that the national capacity of the contracting
parties of this region will be increased. The training on the use of the IPP and how to access
official information for use in the phytosanitary decision making process should enhance
participants’ competency in their endeavour to adhere and fulfill the obligations required.
In addition, he was pleased to note the presence of heads of senior plant protection
and plant quarantine organizations from eleven different countries attending this workshop,
reflecting the full commitment of member countries in their endeavor to cooperate in
capacity building and increase capabilities to enhance and strengthen their plant health and
quarantine information exchange. He hoped that this training workshop will assist in
providing positive direction towards enhanced information sharing by being able to enter
relevant information correctly and timely into the IPP and the results of this training
workshop being translated into more interaction especially among countries in this region
through effective information exchange.
At this juncture, he congratulated the IPPC Secretariat of the FAO, Rome, the Asia
and Pacific Plant Protection Regional Office, Bangkok and the Department of Agriculture
Malaysia for organizing this important workshop, and thanked FAO for the financial support
and the organizing committee for the hard work they have put in to ensure the success of this
workshop. Lastly, he wished the participants for a successful workshop and hoped that the
foreign participants took this opportunity to visit our beautiful country.
On that note, he declared open the Training Workshop on Information Exchange –
International Phytosanitary Portal for the Asia Region.
3. WORKSHOP PRESENTATION.
Several papers were presented during the workshop:
• Presentation of the workshop program
• Workshop objectives and expected outputs
• Introduction to information exchange under the IPPC
• Country Presentations on National Information Exchanges Processes
• Role of IPPC official contact points & NPPO information exchange obligations
• Official versus scientific information
• How does the SPS-notification system fit into this?
• Introduction to the IPP
Details of the papers are found in Appendix 3.
A handout on IPP Reporting Obligations is found in Appendix 5.
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