1st Meeting of the ad hoc Panel on Plant Protection Information
Paris, 2011-11-29/30
The first meeting of the ad hoc Panel on Plant Protection Information took place at the EPPO headquarters. This Panel was created because the EPPO Council considered that the communication strategy of EPPO and the necessity to raise public awareness about plant health are important topics which needed to be specifically addressed.
The Panel initially reviewed the existing information services provided by EPPO, in particular the EPPO Bulletin, the EPPO Reporting Service, and the EPPO website. It also discussed the EPPO databases on Standards on Efficacy Evaluation of Plant Protection Products, Diagnostic expertise, the EPPO Plant Protection Thesaurus (including the EPPO codes), and PQR. The Panel was generally satisfied with these information services and databases and strongly encouraged the EPPO Secretariat to continue developing and maintaining them. In particular, the participants were very satisfied with the new version of PQR. The Panel was also presented with the latest prototype of the ‘EPPO Global database’, a new web-based interface which is currently being developed by the Secretariat to provide rapid access to all pest-specific information that has been produced by EPPO (data sheets, Reporting Service articles, Standards, PRAs and Climex studies, photos, PQR and EPPT data). The Panel suggested that the ‘Global database’ interface should be published as soon as possible in 2012, as its contents could be gradually enlarged over time.
The Panel members were invited to present their experience on national information and communication campaigns related to plant health before opening a brainstorming session on the two following questions:
- How to raise the EPPO profile in the media?
- How to raise public awareness on plant health issues?
Many suggestions were made and listed in a preliminary action plan which will be reviewed at the next meeting. The Panel agreed that the first priorities would be:
1) to explore the possibilities for EPPO to participate in social networks (e.g. Twitter, Facebook),
2) to monitor the development of a platform of information exchange for Heads of diagnostic laboratories, as this could be used as a pilot project for the creation of other EPPO forums,
3) to prepare a draft poster to be displayed in airports/seaports to inform travellers about the risks of moving plant material.
The next Panel meeting will take place in Riga on the 2012-11-06/07.
PARTICIPANTS
AIZPURIETE Signija (Ms)
State Plant Protection Service of Latvia, Lielvardes street 36/38, LV-1006 Riga, Latvia - Tel +371-670272206 - Fax +371-67550934 - signija.aizpuriete@vaad.gov.lv
AVENDANO GARCIA Nuria (Ms)
Tecnologías y Servicios Agrarios, S.A., C/Julian Camarillo, 4a. 2-d, 28037 Madrid, Spain - Tel +34-607736171 - Fax +34-913682099 - nag@tragsa.es
BOUHOT-DELDUC Laurence (Ms)
Bureau des Semences et de la Santé Végétale, Ministère de l'Agriculture et de la Pêche, DGAL, 251 rue de Vaugirard, 75732 Paris Cedex 15, France - Tel +33-149558437 - Fax +33-49555949 - laurence.bouhot-delduc@agriculture.gouv.fr
KAMINSKI Katrin (Ms)
Julius Kühn-Institute (JKI), Institute for National and International Plant Health, Messeweg 11/12, 38104 Braunswcheig, Germany - Tel +49-5312993378 - Fax +49-5312993007 - katrin.kaminski@jki.bund.de
PATAKI György (Mr)
Agricultural Office, Directorate for Plant Protection, Soil Conservation and Agri-environment, Budaörsi ut 141-145, 1118 Budapest, Hungary - Tel +36-13091038 - Fax +36-12462942 - patakigy@mgszh.gov.hu
RADOVA Stepanka (Ms)
State Phytosanitary Administration, Zemedelska 1a, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic - Tel +420-545 110 447 - Fax +420-545 211 078 - stepanka.radova@srs.cz
SHAMIYEV Taleh (Mr)
State Phytosanitary Control Service, Ministry of Agriculture, R. Aliyev 5, Az 1025 Baku, Azerbaijan - Tel +994 12 496 41 58 - Fax +994 12 496 41 58 - taleshami@mail.ru
SLAWSON David (Mr)
Food & Environment Research Agency, Sand Hutton, YO41 1LZ York, United Kingdom - Tel +44-1904462156 - david.slawson@fera.gsi.gov.uk
STIGTER Henk (Mr)
National Plant Protection Organisation, P.O. Box 9102, 6700 HC Wageningen, Netherlands - Tel +31-317496822 - Fax +31-317421701 - h.stigter@minlnv.nl
EPPO Secretariat
ARNITIS Ringolds (Mr)
GRIESSINGER Damien (Mr)
KNAPIC Vlasta (Ms)
MCMULLEN Madeleine (Ms)
ROY Anne-Sophie (Ms)
OEPP/EPPO, 21, boulevard Richard Lenoir, 75011 Paris, France -Tel +33-145207794 - Fax +33-170766547 - hq@eppo.int
Observer
KAMALOVA Renata (Ms)
Federal State Budget Organisation, "All-Russian Plant Quarantine Centre" 32, Pogranichnaya street, P. Bykovo - 2, Ramenski Region, 140150 Moscow oblast, Russia - Tel +7-9151951045 - Fax +7-4956071655 - rk@eppo.int
