17th meeting of the ad hoc Panel on Invasive Alien Species
Mèze (FR), 2012-06-05/07
The 17th meeting of the ad hoc Panel on Invasive Alien Species took place in Mèze (FR) on 2012-06-05/07 at the kind invitation of the French NPPO and of the City of Mèze. The activities of this EPPO Panel were reported in the local press (Midi Libre Mèze and Midi Libre Sète), as a response to the EPPO press release sent shortly before the meeting.
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Mr Branquart informed the Panel about the situation of invasive alien species in Belgium (pdf). Mr Fernandez-Galiano gave a presentation on the Codes of conduct currently being developed within the framework of the Bern Convention.
The Panel discussed country comments received on the prioritization process for invasive alien plants. This document was approved and it is hoped that it will be adopted as an EPPO Standard this year. The outcome of this prioritization process will be to reformulate the EPPO Lists of invasive alien plants, and identify priorities for Pest Risk Analysis (PRA). The Panel considered that the next EPPO PRA should be performed on Parthenium hysterophorus. In the EPPO region, this species is only recorded in Israel and there is considerable information on its invasive behaviour worldwide. A short PRA will be carried out to study the impacts that this species may have in the EPPO region.
The Panel also discussed the draft Standard on the management of invasive alien aquatic plants currently under preparation, and made several improvements with the aim that it will be adopted in 2013.
The Panel also suggested that guidelines should be developed on criteria indicating that a plant exhibits an invasive behaviour, and on how key data should be collected and reported for an efficient early warning.
The Panel also had the opportunity to make a field trip and to see Periploca graeca (Asclepiadaceae) invading the sand dunes of the Bagnas natural reserve. A visit to the Salagou Lake also provided the opportunity to see the invasive alien aquatic plant Lagarosiphon major (Hydrocharitaceae), as well as the results of the eradication of Cylindropuntia rosea (Cactaceae).
Participants
Austria
FOLLAK Swen (Mr)
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Institute for Sustainable Plant Production, Spargelfeldstrasse 191, A-1220 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43-5055533347 - Fax: +43-5055533303
swen.follak@ages.at
Belgium
BRANQUART Etienne (Mr)
Département de l'étude du milieu naturel et agricole, Service Pubic de Wallonie, Avenue Maréchal Juin 23, B-5030 Gembloux, Belgium
Tel: +32-81620420
ebranquart@gmail.com
Czech Republic
SOJNEKOVA Martina (Ms)
State Phytosanitary Administration, Ztracena 1099/10, 161 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
Tel: +420-545110447
martina.sojnekova@srs.cz
Estonia
LINNAMäGI Merike (Ms)
Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation Department, Narva mnt 7a - 329, 15712 Tallinn, Estonia
Tel: +372-6262900 - Fax: +372-6262901
merike.linnamagi@envir.ee
France
EHRET Pierre (Mr)
Service Régional de l'Alimentation (SRAL), Place Chaptal - CS 70039, 34060 Montpellier Cedex 2, France
Tel: +33-467101817 - Fax: +33-467101946
pierre.ehret@agriculture.gouv.fr
Germany
STARFINGER Uwe (Mr)
Julius Kühn Institut (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for National and International Plant Health, Messeweg 11/12, 38104 Braunschweig, Germany
Tel: +49-5312993380 - Fax: +49-5312993007
uwe.starfinger@jki.bund.de
Italy
BRUNDU Guiseppe (Mr)
University of Sassari, Dept. of Science for Nature and Environmental Resources - Dipartimento di Scienze della Natura e del Territorio, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sede di Via Piandanna, 4, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Tel: +39-079228668 - Fax: +39-070233600
gbrundu@tin.it
Latvia
GARKAJE Astra (Ms)
State Plant Protection Service - Plant Quarantine Department, Lielvardes str. 36/38, LV-1010 Riga, Latvia
Tel: +371-67757990 - Fax: +371-67550927
astra.garkaje@vaad.gov.lv
Lithuania
ZITKUVIENE Rasa (Ms)
State Plant Service under the ministry of Agriculture, Plant Quarantine Department, Kalvariju str. 62, LT-09304 Vilnius, Lithuania
Tel: +370-52754353 - Fax: +370-52752128
rasa.zitkuviene@vatzum.lt
Russia
MIRONOVA Maryam (Ms)
Russian Plant Quarantine Centre, Pogranichnaya str., 32, 140150 Moscow Region, Bykovo, Russian Federation
Tel: +7-4957879054 - Fax: +7-4952237241
mironam@mail.ru
Switzerland
BUHOLZER Serge (Mr)
Federal Department of Economic Affairs DEA, Agroscope Reckenholz- Tänikon Research Station ART, Reckenholzstr. 191, CH-8046 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel: +41-443777231 - Fax: +41-443777201
serge.buholzer@art.admin.ch
The Netherlands
VAN VALKENBURG Johan (Mr)
Plant Protection Service, Geertjesweg 15, P.O. Box 9102, 6700 HC Wageningen, Netherlands
Tel: +31-317496730 - Fax: +31-317421701
j.l.c.h.van.valkenburg@minlnv.nl
United Kingdom
BAKER Richard (Mr)
Food and Environment Research Agency, Sand Hutton, YO41 1LZ York, United Kingdom
Tel: +44-1904462220 - Fax: +44-1904462250
richard.baker@fera.gsi.gov.uk
Observers
Council of Europe
FERNANDEZ-GALIANO Eladio (Mr)
Biodiversity Unit, Council of Europe, 67075 Strasbourg, France
Tel: +33-388412259 - Fax: +33-388413751
eladio.fernandez-galiano@coe.int
European Environment Agency
JOSEFSSON Melanie (Ms)
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Kongens Nytorv 6, 1050 Copenhagen K Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel: +45-33367187
melanie.josefsson@eea.europa.eu
France
FRIED Guillaume (Mr)
Laboratoire de la santé des végétaux, Station de Montpellier, CBGP, Campus International de Baillarguet - CS 30016, 34988 Montferrier-Sur-Lez Cedex, France
Tel: +33-467022553 - Fax: +33-464020070
guillaume.fried@anses.fr
MANDON Isabelle (Ms)
Fédération des Conservatoires Botaniques Nationaux, 18 rue Beaumarchais – BP 87 - 93511 MONTREUIL-SOUS-BOIS CEDEX, 93511 Montreuil-Sous-Bois, France
Tel: +33-180897000
isabelle.mandon@fcbn.fr
EPPO
ARNITIS Ringolds (Mr)
BRUNEL Sarah (Ms)
OEPP/EPPO, 21 boulevard Richard Lenoir, 75011 Paris, France
Tel: +33-145207794 - Fax: +33-170766547
sb@eppo.int
