AU Countries

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AU Countries the IPPCTCP/RAF/3013(A) Regional
and Sub-regional Capacity Building for the
Exchange of Official Phytosanitary Information
under the IPPC

• IPPC Secretariat
• FAO-AGPP
• Rome
• Italy

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IPPC

• Of 53 AU members, only 31 were contracting
  parties before TCP
• NOW 39 are contracting parties !!!
• _________________________________________
  Situation before TCP
• Most AU members are not IPPC compliant
• affects trade negatively
• Less than adequate contact and communications
  with most members
• IPPC contact points
• IPPC national obligations
• IAPSC
• Need to understand context and role within IPPC
  framework
• Cannot meet obligations on behalf of countries at
  present
• AU Focal Points and IPPC Contact Points are not
  necessarily the same

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IPPC Capacity building

• FAO - TCPs (General IPPC)
• Eastern/Southern Africa Eritrea, Kenya,
  Namibia, Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda,
  Zambia - Phytosanitary Capacity building
• Northern and Western Africa - Gabon, Gambia,
  Tunisia - general Phytosanitary Capacity building
• Eastern Africa - Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda-
  Surveillance, containment and identification of
  phytosanitary options regarding fruit fly
  Bactrocera invadens
• North Africa and the Mediterranean Region (8
  countries) - Containment and management/eradicatio
  n of the peach fruit fly Bactrocera zonata

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IPPC Capacity Building

• Risk Analysis PRA
• Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Namibia,
  Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda,
  Zambia
• This week Regional PRA training in Accra,
  Ghana...
• Capacity building workshops are conducted in most
  regions. These include for example
• Regional Technical Workshops on Draft ISPMs
• Phytosanitary Capacity Evaluation (PCE)
• International standards for phytosanitary
  Measures (ISPM) and their implementation
• Phytosanitary Information Exchange - IPP

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TCP/RAF/3013(A) Regional and sub-regional
capacity building for the exchange of official
phytosanitary information under the (New Revised
Text of the) IPPC
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TCP/RAF/3013(A)

• IPPC Secretariat in collaboration with the
  INTER-AFRICAN PHYTOSANITARY COUNCIL (IAPSC) OF
  THE AFRICAN UNION (AU)
• Facilitation of two sub-regional workshops

22 countries, Douala, Cameroon https//www.ippc.in
t/id/88587?languagefr
19 countries, Accra, Ghana https//www.ippc.int/id
/88563?languageen
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TCP/RAF/3013(A)

• Participants for both workshops were nominated
  from sub-regional groupings and countries as
  follows
• - Economic Community of West African States
  (ECOWAS), 15 member countries (workshop in
  English)
• - Economic Community of Central African States
  (CEMAC), 11 member countries (workshop in French)
• - Southern African Development Community (SADC),
  14 member countries (workshop in English)
• - Five Maghreb countries (workshop in French)
• - Six East African countries (workshop in
  English)

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TCP/RAF/3013(A)

• IPPC information exchange
• 25 Francophone countries invited 22 attended
  Jan 2006
• 28 Anglophone countries invited 19 attended
  Dec 2005
• Awareness of national information exchange
  obligations
• Facilitate process
• Able to enter national data themselves
• Not AU/IAPSC on their behalf!
• National awareness and training re IPP

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TCP/RAF/3013(A)

• The objectives
• to ensure that every IAPSC member and member of
  the CPM has equal access to essential official
  phytosanitary information,
• the capability to exchange official information
  electronically through the IPP as recommended by
  the ICPM, and
• to meet their obligations under the IPPC and to
  facilitate phytosanitary decision-making

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TCP/RAF/3013(A) continued...

• build basic national and sub-regional
  capabilities
• train sub-regional and national staff
• develop a regional- and national information
  exchange framework
• enhance collaboration between regional and
  national staff in effective phytosanitary
  information management
• follow-up nomination of responsible IPP Editors
  (specific responsibilities with regard to
  provision of official national information)
• facilitate national follow-up training (use of
  IPP create awareness on national reporting
  obligations, etc., to government officials)

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TCP/RAF/3013(A) continued... National follow-up
training
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TCP/RAF/3013(A) continued... National follow-up
training
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TCP/RAF/3013(A) continued...

• Countries shall...
• cooperate to prevent the spread and introduction
  of quarantine pests,
• promote measures for their official control (ISPM
  1)
• This will lead to...
• harmonization of phytosanitary regulations in
  Africa,
• development of regional strategies against the
  introduction and spread of plant pests (insects,
  plant pathogens, weeds etc.)

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Training Summary for 01/2005- 01/2007
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National Data Uploaded for 01/2005- 01/2007
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TCP/RAF/3013(A) continued...
In line with all above information on the project
activities, and in view of globalization and
trade liberalization, African countries are
expected to become much more involved as full
partners in international agricultural trade
which now imposes many more stringent conditions
on agricultural imports from developing countries
This compels African countries to seriously
address phytosanitary issues that can affect the
quality of agricultural produce destined for the
international markets or improve market access
African countries must therefore strictly comply
with the SPS-Agreement and abide by the
agreements and protocols of the IPPC