Session 8: Notifications at internal and EC level

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Session 8 Notifications at internal and EC level

• Göran Kroeker (SE)

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Basic rule 1

• Always inform others concerned with a finding of
  importance not just your own service!
• In other words, pass on the kind of information
  you would like to receive yourself to protect
  your plant production

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Basic rule 2

• This goes for all - growers of plants, traders,
  and national authorities
• Not that easy to achieve basic reason it might
  involve problems
• We still have problems on national, EC and global
  levels achieving this goal!

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Legal requirements on notifications

• In Council Dir 2009/29/EC
• Art 6.5 states that producers shall immediately
  notify the responsible official body any unusual
  occurrence of harmful organisms, symptoms or any
  other plant abnormality

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Legal requirements 2

• Art 13c.8 states that the responsible official
  bodies inform the plant protection organisation
  of the third country of origin, or consignor
  third country, and the Commission of consignments
  intercepted, and the reason for it.
• This information shall be given as soon as
  possible.

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Legal requirements3

• In Art 16.1 and 2 it is stated that MS shall
  immediately notify in writing the Commission and
  the MS of the presence of any harmful organisms
  listed in Annex IA Section I and Annex IIA
  Section I, or new appearance of those listed in
  Section II

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Legal requirements4

• When it comes to the potato production the
  notification of new cases of suspected or
  confirmed occurrences of outbreaks of quarantine
  organisms falls under Council Dir 2000/29 as well
  under the control directives for Brown Rot and
  Ring Rot.

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Legal requirements5

• For the new control directive for PCN and those
  for Brown Rot and Ring Rot MS shall yearly notify
  to the Commission and MS the results of the
  official surveys

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Legal requirements6

• In the case of confirmed outbreaks of Brown and
  Ring Rot MS shall beside the immediate
  notification to the Commission and MS also report
  on the results of their investigations in detail

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Legal requirements7

• For the new control directive for PCN, MS shall
  notify the Commission and MS about the details of
  the official control programme aiming at least at
  the suppression of the PCN

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Legal requirements8

• Another important requirement for notification to
  the Commission and MS in the new PCN Directive is
  on investigations of suspected breakdown of
  resistance in a resistant variety.
• In this case the industry first shall report
  their suspicion to their responsible official
  body

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Legal requirements9

• A common requirement in the control directives
  for Wart and PCN is for MS to notify in writing
  to Commission and MS a list of all new varieties
  of potatoes which are resistant to these harmful
  organisms and the details on pathotypes and
  virulence groups

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Legal requirements10

• For the new PCN directive there is a possibility
  for MS in relation to their own production to
  adopt stricter measures to control PCN or to
  prevent them spreading as long they are in
  compliance with 2000/29. Those measures shall be
  notified to the Commission and MS.

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In summary 1

• New outbreaks
• Wart, Brown and Ring Rot
• Result of official investigations
• Brown and Ring Rot
• Results of official surveys
• Brown and Ring Rot, PCN
• Control programme aiming at least at suppression
  
• PCN

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In summary 2

• List of new variety resistance
• Wart and PCN
• Suspected or confirmed break down of variety
  resistance
• PCN, (Wart)
• Adoption of stricter control measures for the own
  production
• PCN
• Results from derogations

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Activities on information 1

• Standing Committee on Plant Health (SCPH) is
  generally the first level, if not eventually
  discussed directly with Commission, which might
  be a good strategy especially in crucial
  questions
• MS generally informs the Commission and other MS
  under other business

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Activities on information 2

• Commission might take up important issues at a
  later meeting of SCPH
• In some cases Commission later invite experts on
  the issue to a meeting of a working group, e.g.
  Pine Wood Nematode, Brown Rot from Egypt,
  Diabrotica

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Activities on information 3

• Discussions may lead to legal texts as Commission
  Decisions PWN in Portugal, Citrus from Argentina
  and Brazil or, as for Brown Rot, to a new Control
  Directive decided by Council.
• Very important questions are also brought to
  Councils Working Group on Harmful Organisms

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Activities on information 4

• In these cases, the process often starts with
  discussions between the Chief Officers of Plant
  Health, which meet twice a year as Council
  informal working group

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Activities on information 5

• Regarding the information on interceptions, the
  Commission established a database
• Europhyt is a very useful tool for planning of
  inspection priorities and risk analyses

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EU legislation

• Standard Community printed form
• Notification sent not later than two working days
  (or more rapidly)

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EUROPHYT

• Exchanges information on plant health
• Three levels enter data, modify (approval),
  consultation notification

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EUROPHYT (Hungary)
Third country
Notification
CSPPSC
Brussels
MARD
Approve
EPPO
MSs
County Services
BIPs
Data input
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EUROPHYT manuals

• The manuals can be used when training new staff
  on the Europhyt system
• http//circa.europa.eu/Members/irc/sanco/sanco_eur
  ophyt/library?l/14_-_europhytvmdetailedsbTitl
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• Quick guides
• to consulting data
• to entering notifications
• to creating reports.

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After log in
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Creation of a new notification

• Consignor
• Interception file reference number, Consignment
  from, Request for message to be sent
• Consignee
• Envelope from to
• Export country, place
• Origin - country, place
• Transport mode, mean, identification
• Point Of Entry
• Identification of Consignment data of the
  document (PC)

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• Description of the intercepted part of the
  consignment (type of package commodity, plant,)
• Net Mass/Volume/Number of units in consignment
• Net Mass/Volume/Number of units in intercepted
  part
• Net Mass/Volume/Number of units in contaminated
  part
• Reasons for interception
• Measure(s) taken on consignment
• Free Text
• Information on the interception (place, date,
  service)
• Sender of the message (service, person, stamp,
  date).