Service Level Agreement with FAO Translation service signed!

Today, June 2nd 2015, Mr Brent Larson, Standard Setting Officer at the IPPC Secretariat and Mr Sergio Ferraro, Chief at the FAO Conference Programming and Documentation Service (CPAM) signed a Service Level Agreement (SLA) to plan translations of standards and specifications in 2015.

The purpose of this SLA is to allow CPAM to efficiently plan work and to deliver a timely and high-quality service for the translations of documents submitted by the IPPC standard setting team throughout the current year, with the aim to continuously improve quality and efficiency.

The IPPC and CPAM also appointed focal points to outline the different responsibilities and for coordination purposes.

The IPPC Secretariat has set up a resource page on the IPP to provide guidance to translators on standards and links to standard reference materials: https://www.ippc.int/core-activities/standards-setting/development-standards/translation-resources