EPPO Meetings in 2014 – short reports

Panels and Expert Working Groups

• 55^th Meeting of the Panel on CPM Affairs and Joint EPPO/NAPPO Meeting (Montreal, CA, 2014-02-03/06)
• 20th Meeting of the Panel on Phytosanitary Measures for Potato (Lille, FR, 2014-02-12/13)
• Meeting of the Panel on General Standards on Efficacy Evaluation (Paris 2014-02-25/26)
• 4th Meeting of the ad hoc Panel on Harmonization of data on plant protection products - An ad hoc meeting on EPPO codes (Paris, 2014-02-26/27)
• 49th meeting of the Panel on Phytosanitary Measures (Paris, 2014-03-04/06)
• 19th Meeting of the Panel on Quarantine Pests for Forestry (Vienna, 2014-03-10/12)
• 18th Meeting of the EPPO Panel on Diagnostics in Bacteriology (Wageningen, NL, 2014-03-18/20)
• 13th Meeting of the Panel on Efficacy Evaluation of Herbicides and Plant Growth Regulators (Milano, IT, 2014-04-09/11)
• 56th Meeting of the Panel on CPM affairs (Paris, 2014-04-22/24)
• 2nd Ad hoc Expert Working Group on extrapolation tables for minor uses (Avignon,FR, 2014-04-28/30)
• 19th Meeting of the Panel on Invasive Alien Plants (Irkustk, RU, 2014-05-13/15)
• 58th Meeting of the Panel on CPM Affairs (Tallinn, 2014-09-02/05)
• 9th Meeting of the Resistance Panel on Plant Protection Products (Paris, 2014-09-17/18)
• Ad hoc meeting of the EPPO Expert Working Group on Wood Commodities (Paris, 2014-10-07/10)
• 3rd Meeting of the Panel on Diagnostics in Virology and Phytoplasmology (Rome, 2014-10-14/17)
• Ad hoc Expert Working Group on Integrated Pest Management (Paris, 2014-10-28/29)
• 50th meeting of the Panel on Phytosanitary Measures (Antalya, TR, 2014-11-04/06)
• 5th Meeting of the Panel on Diagnostics and Quality Assurance (Kleinmachnow, 2014-11-25/26)
• Panel on Efficacy Evaluation of Fungicides and Insecticides (Paris, FR, 2014-11-25/27)
• 39th Meeting of the Colorado Beetle Campaign Committee (Caen, FR, 2014-12-02)

Working Parties

• 44th Meeting of the Working Party on Plant Protection Products (Budapest, 2014-05-21/23)
• 52nd meeting of the Working Party on Phytosanitary Regulations (Costesti, MD, 2014-06-17/20)

Conferences and Workshops

• Workshop on the Phytosanitary risks associated with soil attached to potato tubers and potato waste (Lille, FR, 2014-02-11/12)
• EPPO Workshop on Accreditation for plant pest diagnostic laboratories (York, GB, 2014-02-18/20)
• Joint EFSA-EPPO Workshop on ‘Data collection and information sharing in plant health’ (Parma, IT, 2014-04-01/03)
• Workshop on Electronic Certificates and associated IT Systems (Baku, AZ, 2014-04-29/30)
• 13th Workshop on EPPO Diagnostic Protocols for fungi held jointly with the 17th Annual Meeting of the European Mycological Network (Budapest, 2014-05-06/09)
• FAO/EPPO Workshop on 'Commodity-associated phytosanitary risk, its analysis and management' (Bishkek, KG, 2014-06-03/06)
• Workshop for inspectors on contingency planning (Kew (London), 2014-11-18/20)
• Q-collect Workshop for collections and users of biological material (Kleinmachnow, DE, 2014-11-27/28)