🖥️ Web report now online: Expert Working Group for the Extrapolation Database 🖥️
💬 The EWG discussed revision and improvement of existing content and considered the extension of the database to major uses extrapolation.
🔗Read full report for more information: www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202...
🎉 We are officially 75 years old! 🎉
📅 75 years ago on the 18th of April 1951, the EPPO Convention was signed by 15 member countries. Today we have 52 members across the entire region.
📽️ Here is a short video about EPPO.
🎈 Thank you to all of our member countries for their continued support.
Did you miss the CPM-20 Poster Exhibition “Stories of Successes and Challenges: Innovation in Implementing the IPPC Instruments and Tools” at #CPM-20?
All posters are now provided on the IPPC website (including EPPO's poster on the database on resistance cases) here: www.ippc.int/en/commissio...
The #PestSurveyCard on Thrips palmi is now available!
➡️ link.europa.eu/pvkvwN
EFSA ranked Thrips palmi among the EU candidate #PriorityPests:
➡️ bsky.app/profile/efsa...
#Thripidae
Next week, experts & plant specialists gather to tackle one of Europe's emerging forest threats, invasive Agrilus wood borers🪲🌳
The IPSN will be there👇
📅Tue 21 - Thu 23 Apr 2026
📍Vienna, Austria
🔗(bit.ly/4dGc7ib)
@epponews.bsky.social @fao.org
🤔 Have you seen one of the latest communication campaigns added to the EPPO Platform on Communication Material?
See some of the sticker sheets that were added by FORSAID, a Horizon Europe project.
➡️ See more here: media.eppo.int/index?id_gal...
❗️ Spaces are still available for the EPPO Jens-Georg Unger Webinar this Friday!
See the speakers for the upcoming webinar here!
Register to attend: eu01web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Find out more: www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202...
📅 Join us on the 17th April, 11am CET, for a webinar to find out about the EPPO Jens-Georg Unger fellowship and hear the experiences of past and current fellows.
➡️ Find out more: www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202...
➡️ Register now: eu01web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
⚠️ ADDITION TO THE EPPO ALERT LIST ⚠️
➡️ Diplodia bulgarica, a canker causing pathogen of apple and pear trees.
❓It has recently emerged in several EPPO member countries, and poses threats to apple and pear trees.
🔎 Find out about the risks, damage and more: www.eppo.int/ACTIVITIES/p...
📢 The Programme and Book of Abstracts has been added for the upcoming EPPO FAO-REUFIS BFW Conference on Emerging Risks of Agrilus Wood Borers.
➡️ See more on the conference page here: www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202...
You can still register to attend too!
📢 DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER FOR THE EPPO JENS-GEORG UNGER FELLOWSHIP WEBINAR.
📅 On 17th April, 11am CET, join us for a webinar to find out about the fellowship and hear experiences of past and current fellows.
➡️ Read more: www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202...
➡️ Register: eu01web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🌿Web report now online: EPPO Panel on Phytosanitary Measures🌿
🔗Read the full report: www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202...
#EPPO #planthealth #phytosanitarymeasures #pestrisk
Le nouveau numéro du Service d'information de l'OEPP est disponible. Notre lettre d'information mensuelle traite des maladies et ravageurs émergents et réglementés et des plantes envahissantes
gd.eppo.int/media/data/r...
Read about the latest phytosanitary updates in March EPPO Reporting Service
🔓 Free to read in English and French at gd.eppo.int/reporting/Rs...
⚠️ The EPPO Reporting Service is a monthly information report for our member countries on events of phytosanitary concern in the EPPO region and beyond
The expert working group in EPPO Headquarters
Hot water treatment facility Photo courtesy Pierfederico La Notte (CNR-IPSP)
Plant material to be treated by hot water treatment Photo courtesy Pierfederico La Notte (CNR-IPSP)
Plant material ready to be treated by hot water treatment. Photo courtesy Pierfederico La Notte (CNR-IPSP)
An working group met this week at EPPO Headquarters to draft a Standard on hot water treatment to control Xylella fastidiosa.
This work is part of the BeXyl Project (Beyond Xylella), Work Package 3 ‘Thermal treatment for safe plant material exchange’.
More at bexylproject.org
📅 Join us on the 17th April, 11am CET, for a webinar to find out about the EPPO Jens-Georg Unger fellowship and hear the experiences of past and current fellows.
➡️ Find out more: www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202...
➡️ Register now: eu01web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🌲How can we safeguard European forests from invasive tree-killing Agrilus Wood Borers🪲?
Join next month's joint
@epponews.bsky.social
@fao.org-REUFIS BFW conference & be part of the response!
📍Vienna, Austria
📅Tue 21 - Thu 23 Apr 2026
🔗[Read more](bit.ly/4dGc7ib)
#Biosecurity #ForestHealth
📅 This week the EPPO Panel on Phytosanitary Measures are meeting at the EPPO Headquarters in Paris.
🌐 Stay tuned for the web report!
➡️ Find out more about the Panel here: www.eppo.int/ABOUT_EPPO/p...
👉️ ONE WEEK LEFT to register your interest in attending the EPPO Pest Risk Analysis training Workshop happening in November in Belgrade.
➡️ Find out more and pre-register here: www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202...
Saturday 21st March was International Day of Forests 2026. 🌳
Thank you to our experts for their dedication to safeguarding forest health.
📢 Don’t forget: EPPO is co-organizing a conference this April on “Safeguarding Forests in Europe"
🔗 Register and find out more: www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202...
Last week during #CPM20 we had the opportunity to present our poster on the EPPO Database on Resistance Cases: ‘The EPPO Database on resistance cases: addressing pesticide resistance to support plant health and One Health objectives’
Read more here: resistance.eppo.int
Thank you to the @IPPC for organising yet another productive CPM.
#CPM20 was also a great chance to meet our colleagues from across the region.
Thank you to EPPO member countries for their excellent participation before and during CPM-20.
This week, we are attending the International Plant Protection Convention's (IPPC) 20th Session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM-20) at the FAO Headquarters in Rome.
📺️ Follow the discussions live: www.fao.org/webcast/en
🌐 Web report for the 26th Meeting of the Panel on General Standards on Efficacy Evaluation now online!
📚️ Read about new and revised Standards for efficacy evaluation!
➡️ Read more: www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202...
⚠️ ADDITION TO THE EPPO ALERT LIST ⚠️
➡️ Senecio deltoideus is recorded as an established species in the EPPO region where it can form dense stands which can negatively impact biodiversity and ecosystem services.
🔎 Find out about the risks, damage and more: www.eppo.int/ACTIVITIES/p...
EPPO Scientific Officer Rob Tanner will be presenting today on the challenges and opportunities for the utilization of biological control agents in the EPPO region at the 17th Slovenian Plant Protection Conference 2026.
Find out more about the conference here: dvrs.si/17-slovensko...
🤝 Last Friday, EPPO Scientific Officer Valerio Lucchesi attended the 41st Meeting of the OECD's Working Party on Pesticides in Paris.
👨🏫 He presented EPPO activities on Plant Protection Products at the Working Party.
🙏 Thank you to the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social for inviting us to participate.
📢 LE NOUVEAU SERVICE D’INFORMATION EST DISPONIBLE!
📖 Découvrez les dernières actualités phytosanitaires pour la région OEPP.
🔓 Lire en français ici - gd.eppo.int/media/data/r...
📢 February's Reporting Service is OUT NOW!
📖 Read about the latest phytosanitary updates for the EPPO region in February's reporting service.
🔓 Free to read in English and French at gd.eppo.int/reporting/Rs...
❓️ Have you seen this campaign that was just added to the EPPO Platform on Communication Material?
➡️ See more here: media.eppo.int/index?id_gal...
