The International Plant Protection Convention IPPC

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The International Plant Protection
Convention(IPPC)

• Workshop on the relationship between the SPS
  Committee and the international standard-setting
  organizations
• 26 October 2009
• IPPC Secretariat

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Our mission

• Protecting the worlds plant resources from
  pests

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Scope

• Standard setting
• Info exchange Implementation
• Capacity building

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Organizational Structure
Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM)
Standards Committee (SC)
Expert Working Groups (EWGs)
Technical Panels (TPs)
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Standard setting process

• Stage 1 Topics
• Stage 2 Drafting
• Stage 3 Member consultation
• Stage 4 Adoption
• 6-7 years in total

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International Standards for Phytosanitary
Measures (ISPMs)

• 32 ISPMs adopted
• 4 specific ISPMs
• 87 topics and subjects

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Regional Plant Protection Organizations(RPPO)

• Coordinate implementation in their regions
• Technical Consultation of RPPOs
• All RPPOs meet annually
• encourages inter-regional cooperation

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Opportunity to participate

• Stage 1 New topic/Work programme
• New topic ? Members (NPPOs, RPPOs),
• SPS Secretary,
• other organization
• Review ? Region (SC)
• Work programme ? Contracting Parties (CPM)

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Opportunity to participate (Cont)

• Stage 2 Drafting
• Specification ? Region (SC)
• Comment ? Members (NPPOs,RPPOs)
• international organizations
• Approve Spec ? Region (SC)
• Draft text ? Experts
• Finalize draft ? Region (SC)

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Opportunity to participate (Cont)

• Stage 3 Consultation
• Comment ? Members (NPPOs, RPPOs),
• international organizations
• Revise draft ? Region (SC)
• Stage 4 Adoption
• Comment ? Members (NPPOs, RPPOs),
• international organizations
• Adopt ? Contracting Parties (CPM)

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Recent developments

• Special Process
• Regional workshop on draft ISPMs
• IPPC Implementation Reviewand Support System
  (IRSS)

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Development process

• Regular Process
• For concept standards
• Special Process (formerly Fast track)
• For technical standards
• Drafted by TPs with focus on science
• Discussed by SC via E-mail

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Regional workshop on draft ISPMs

• Since 2001
• Provide forum for developing countries for their
  review of draft ISPMs
• In 2009, IPPC held first workshop for Russian
  speaking countries

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Implementation Reviewand Support System (IRSS)

• Facilitate implementation of IPPC and ISPMs
• Partially implemented due to lack of resources
• Two components Review and Support
• Evaluate implementation (IPPC ISPMs)
• Help Desk for implementation

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Challenging issues

• Procedure for standard setting
• e.g. Special process
• Expectation fewer comments, quick adoption
• Participation by developing countries
• Few experts nominated for TPs/EWGs

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Challenging issues

• Secretariat staffing
• Very few permanent staff members
• Funding
• FAO contributions stagnant
• No assessed member contributions
• No predictable regular income flow to Trust Funds

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Relationship with SPS committee

• IPPC Secretariat ?? SPS Committee
• Report on
• New ISPMs
• Other developments (e.g. meetings, calls)
• SPS Secretariat ?? CPM
• Report on
• Discussions at SPS Committee

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Relationship with other 2 sisters

• CODEX ?? IPPC
• CODEX trust fund participation report was used as
  basis for evaluating participation of developing
  countries in IPPC meetings (2009)

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Relationship with other 2 sisters (Cont)

• OIE ?? IPPC
• OIE shared its experience with
• recognition of animal disease status at IPPC
  open-ended WG on international recognition of
  pest free areas (2008)
• the Performance of Veterinary Services tool (PVS)
  at IPPC open-ended WG on Building National
  Phytosanitary Capacity (2008)

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Relationship with other 2 sisters (Cont)

• CODEX, OIE and IPPC participate at SPS workshop
  together
• Standard setting process of CODEX and OIE were
  compared with IPPC for
• Review of IPPC standard setting procedures
• Reorganization of ISPMs

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Potential areas of collaboration

• SPS Committee ?? IPPC
• New topics
• Revision of ISPMs
• SPS Committee ?? 3 sisters
• Information sharing of common issues

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Common issues
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Common issues (cont)