EPPO Meetings in 2016 – short reports

Panels and Experts Working Groups

• 62nd Meeting of the Panel on CPM affairs (Paris, 2016-01-13/14)
• 6th Meeting of the Panel on Diagnostics and Quality Assurance (Paris, 2016-01-19/21)
• 1st EPPO Panel on Diagnostics in Mycology (Paris, 2016-02-09/11)
• Meeting of the Panel on Efficacy Evaluation of Herbicides and Plant Growth Regulators (Vienna, 2016-02-09/11)
• 22nd Meeting of the Panel on Phytosanitary Measures for Potato (Paris, 2016-02-16/18)
• 6th Meeting of the ad hoc Panel on Harmonization of data on plant protection products and EPPO Codes (Paris, 2016-03-07/09)
• Meeting of the Panel on General Standards on Efficacy Evaluation (Paris 2016-03-09/11)
• 4th Meeting of the EPPO Panel on Diagnostics in Virology and Phytoplasmology (Paris, FR, 2016-04-05/07)
• 4th Expert Working Group on extrapolation tables for minor uses (Paris, 2016-04-20/22)
• 63rd Meeting of the Panel on CPM affairs (Paris, 2016-04-26/29)
• 53rd Meeting of the Panel on Phytosanitary Measures (Paris, 2016-05-18/20)
• 20th meeting of the EPPO Panel on Diagnostics in Bacteriology (Maisons-Alfort, FR, 2016-06-01/02)
• 10th Meeting of the Panel on Diagnostics in Nematology (Vienna, 2016-09-07/09)
• 64th Meeting of the Panel on CPM affairs (Minsk, 2016-09-07/09)
• 11th Meeting of the Resistance Panel on Plant Protection Products (Lyon, FR, 2016-09-14/16)
• Horizontal Expert Working Group for the RNQP Project (several meetings, Paris, 2016-06-7/10, 2016-07-11/13 and 2016-09-22/23)
• 9th Joint EPPO/IOBC Panel Meeting on Biological Control Agents (Paris, 2016-10-11/13)
• 54th meeting of the Panel on Phytosanitary Measures (Tel Aviv, IL, 2016-11-07/10)
• Meeting of the Panel on Efficacy Evaluation of Fungicides and Insecticides (Paris, 2016-11-22/24)
• 4th meeting of the EPPO Panel on Diagnostics in Entomology (Paris, 2016-11-29/12-01)

Working Parties

• 46th Meeting of the Working Party on Plant Protection Products (Malmö, Sweden, 2016-05-24/26)
• 54th meeting of the Working Party on Phytosanitary Regulations (Ghent, BE, 2016-06-14/17)

Council Session

• EPPO Council 2016 (Paris, 2016-09-27/28)

Conferences and Workshops

• EPPO codes users meeting (EPPO headquarters, Paris, 2016-03-07)
• Workshop on efficacy requirements and evaluation of plant protection products based on low-risk active substances (Ede, NL, 2016-04-06/07)
• Joint EPPO/EEC Workshop on Euphresco (Moscow, 2016-07-27/28)
• Workshop on harmonized dose expression for the zonal evaluation of plant protection products in high growing crops (Vienna, 2016-10-18/20)
• Joint EFSA-EPPO Workshop: Modelling in Plant Health – how can models support risk assessment of plant pests and decision making? (Parma, IT, 2016-12-12/14)