Standards approved by EPPO Council in 2011-09

At its last session which took place in Bonn (2011-09-20/21), the EPPO Council approved the following draft standards. All of them are now in press and will appear in due course in the Bulletin OEPP / EPPO Bulletin, as well as on this website.

EPPO Standards PM1 - General Phytosanitary Measures

• Revision of EPPO Standard PM 1/2 EPPO A1 and A2 Lists of pests recommended for regulation as quarantine pests:

Addition to the A1 List (pests absent from the EPPO region):
Agrilus anxius

Additions to the A2 List (pests locally present in the EPPO region):
Drosophila suzukii
Ludwigia peploides & Ludwigia grandiflora

Transfers from the A1 List to the A2 List:
Epitrix cucumeris
Phytophthora lateralis
Squash leaf curl virus

• Format for pest reports (PM 1/5)

EPPO Standards PM5 - Pest Risk Analysis

• EPPO decision-support scheme for Pest Risk Analysis for quarantine pests (PM 5/3(5))

EPPO Standards PM7 - Diagnostic protocols for regulated pests

• Bacteria:
  Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (new)

• Insects:
  Ceratitis capitata (new)
  Ceratitis cosyra (new)
  Epitrix spp. (new)
  Paysandisia archon (new)
  Rhagoletis completa (new)
  Sternochetus mangiferae (new)

• Nematodes
  Meloidogyne enterolobii (new)

EPPO Standards PM9 - National regulatory control systems

• Bursaphelenchus xylophilus and its vectors: procedures for official control (revision PM 9/1)
• Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus (revision PM 9/2)
• Ralstonia solanacearum (revision PM 9/3)
• Potato spindle tuber viroid on potato (new)

EPPO Standards PM10 - Phytosanitary treatments

• Treatment of plants for planting (cuttings) of Euphorbia pulcherrima for eradication of Bemisia tabaci (new)

EPPO Standards PP1 - Efficacy Evaluation of Plant Protection Products

• Specific standards
  • Anthracnose on olive (revision PP 1/67)
  • Cycloconium oleaginum (revision PP 1/81)
  • Foliar diseases on maize (new)
  • Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato and Xanthomonas spp. on tomato (new)
  • Diabrotica virgifera virgifera- larvae (revision PP 1/212)
  • Diabrotica virgifera virgifera- adults (new)
  • Tuta absoluta (new)
  • Weeds in water-seeded rice (PP 1/62)
  • Weeds in outdoor fruit vegetables (revision PP 1/118)
  • Weeds in hop (revision PP 1/139)
  • Reduction of lodging in water-seeded rice (revision PP 1/145)
  • Control of suckers in grapevine (revision PP 1/161)
  • Dwarfing of ornamental trees and shrubs (revision PP 1/183)
  • Rooting of cuttings (revision PP 1/186)

• General standard
  • Guidance on Comparative Assessment (new)

• Extrapolation tables to accompany EPPO Standard PP 1/257 Efficacy and crop safety extrapolations for minor uses
• Cucurbitaceae
• Grass seed crops
• Umbelliferous crops
• Peas and beans

WITHDRAWAL of the following EPPO Standards

• PM 3/25 Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus: inspection and test methods
• PM 3/26 Ralstonia solanacearum: inspection and test methods
• PM 3/30 Globodera pallida and G. rostochiensis: soil sampling methods
• PM 3/49 Irradiation of cut flowers to control insects and mites
• PM 3/55 Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens: field inspection and seed-testing methods
• PM 3/56 Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. insidiosus: field inspection and seed-testing methods
• PM 3/58 Xanthomonas fragariae: detection methods in strawberry plants
• PM 7/3  Diagnostic Protocol for Thrips palmi
• PM 7/25 Diagnostic Protocol for Glomerella acutata

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