EPPO 75^th Anniversary

75^th Anniversary of EPPO 

EPPO turns 75 years old

On 18^th April 2026, the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) celebrates 75 years since the signing of the EPPO Convention, by the first 15 member countries. 

We will be marking this milestone throughout 2026. 

EPPO Members through time (1951 – Present)

The membership of the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) expanded steadily over time. In 1951, EPPO was began with a group of member countries from Europe and North Africa including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany (FRG), Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, as well as Algeria, Guernsey, Jersey. Over the following decades, additional countries from Europe, the Mediterranean, and parts of Asia joined, including Israel (1952), Sweden (1954), Norway and Tunisia (1955), the USSR (1957), and Poland and Turkiye (1958), Bulgaria and Romania (1959) Czechoslovakia, Finland and Hungary (1960), Cypurs (1962), Morocco (1962), German Democratic Republic and Malta (1975) and Iran (1979 before withdrawing in 1980). Membership continued to increase in the 1990s, with many countries, including newly independent states, joining during the 1990s, such as Latvia (1992), Czech Republic (1993), Slovakia (1993), and Albania, Croatia, Estonia, Slovenia and Ukraine (1994), Jordan (1997), Lithuania and former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (1998) and Algeria again in 1999. Further expansion in the 2000s and 2010s brought in countries from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, including Kyrgyzstan (2000), Belarus (2003), Kazakhstan and Serbia (2004), Uzbekistan (2005), Moldova (2006), Azerbaijan (2007), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2008), Georgia (2015), and Montenegro (2018). 

What does EPPO mean to you? 

Watch a short video, recorded at CPM-20, on what EPPO means to our partners and NPPOs. 

Many thanks to those who spoke during the video,