Plant health takes center stage as 18th session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures opens

Posted on Mon, 15 Apr 2024, 13:00

PRESS RELEASE. Rome, 15 April 2024. Delegates gather today at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations to take stock of the state of global plant health and to discuss ongoing initiatives to …

CPM-17 adopts plant health standards to further promote safe trade

Posted on Tue, 28 Mar 2023, 12:15

Rome, 28 March 2023. Amendments to existing international plant health standards were adopted at the seventeenth session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM-17), a move seen to enhance the phytosanitary regulation of trade of plants and plant products. …

PRESS RELEASE: Stronger partnerships and more investments needed to protect global plant health

Posted on Mon, 27 Mar 2023, 14:26

Rome, 27 March 2023. Plant pests remain a serious threat to plant health and to food security, the environment and economies. Investments in innovation, research, outreach and the development and adoption of plant health standards are direly needed. These …

Download the APP for CPM-17

Posted on Sat, 25 Mar 2023, 14:32

Rome, 25 March 2023-The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) in collaboration with the FAO IT department (CIO) has built a mobile app for the 17th Session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM-17) that will greatly simplify participants’ experience …

CPM -16 adopts nine new plant health standards, to enhance plant health worldwide

Posted on Tue, 05 Apr 2022, 21:54

Rome, 05 April 2022. The Commission on Phytosanitary Measures adopted nine International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs) during its today's 16th session as presented by the IPPC Standard Setting Senior Officer Avetik Nersisyan. The IPPC is the only global-standard …

IPPC Governance and Strategy: Moving from Policy to action

Posted on Tue, 05 Apr 2022, 20:52

Rome 5 April 2022– The Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM) heard several updates from subsidiary bodies such as the Strategic Planning Group, Bureau and various focus groups, as well as others to launch future International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) …

CPM-16 adoption of ISPMs – no objections received by the IPPC Secretariat

Posted on Mon, 21 Mar 2022, 14:26

The IPPC Secretariat has not received any objections to the draft ISPMs scheduled to be presented for adoption at CPM-16 (2022). The IPPC Secretariat procedures on objections is provided in the attached informative paper (CPM 2022/INF/15), available at: https://www.ippc.int/en/publications/90899/

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Important message regarding CPM-16 documents

Posted on Fri, 18 Mar 2022, 10:48

The deadline for IPPC Contracting Parties to submit any CPM-16 information (INF) documents is 24 March 2022.

Any documents received after this date will be posted as conference room papers (CRPs) during the CPM session.

Last sessions of CPM-15 on 1 April 2021

Posted on Mon, 29 Mar 2021, 15:21

CPM-15 participants (IPPC contracting parties, CPM observers and FAO staff) are reminded to attend the last sessions of CPM-15, which will be held via Zoom on 1st April 2021 from 10 am to 1 pm and from 3 to 6 …

IPPC community gets ready for the first virtual session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures

Posted on Thu, 11 Mar 2021, 18:00

Rome, 11 March 2021. The Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) organized two dry-run sessions to prepare contracting parties and observer organizations for the fifteenth and first-ever virtual session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM-15), which …

CPM-15 Registration is open!

Posted on Wed, 10 Feb 2021, 10:35

The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) extended an invitation to attend the 15th Session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM-15). The Session will be held virtually on 16 and 18 March, and …

CPM Bureau meets virtually for the third time since beginning of global pandemic to decisively advance IPPC work plan

Posted on Mon, 08 Jun 2020, 08:42

Rome, 5 June 2020. The CPM Bureau held its third virtual meeting since the beginning of the global sanitary crisis to continue providing the IPPC community with guidance and governance, in cooperation with the IPPC Secretariat. The meeting was …

Draft Ministerial declaration for CPM-15 open for comments

Posted on Wed, 03 Jul 2019, 06:46

The draft Ministerial declaration for CPM-15 (2020) is now open for comments

Comments should be submitted through the IPPC Online Comment System (OCS): https://ocs-new.ippc.int/. If you need assistance to use the OCS, please visit the OCS resource page on …

CPM-13 Special Topics Session on Plant Health and Environment Protection

Posted on Fri, 27 Apr 2018, 07:44

A Special Topics Session on Plant Health and Environment Protection was held on 19 April 2018 during the 13th Session of the Commission for Phytosanitary Measures. The Session aimed at promoting the IPPC 2018 annual theme Plant Health and Environment …