文档介绍：Agriculture, Biosecurity, Nutrition
and Consumer Protection Department
Food and anization
of the United Nations
Global pest control
Delegates from more than 150 countries met in Rome from 3-7 April 2006
for the first session of FAO's mission on Phytosanitary Measures.
What it is, what it does...
As the governing body of the International Plant
Protection Convention (IPPC), FAO's
Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM)
has a crucial mission: to set standards designed
to prevent plant pests being spread through
international trade, while ensuring that countries
do not use plant protection regulations to
protect, instead, their domestic producers.
mission came into existence in
October last year, by which time two-thirds of
the IPPC's contracting parties - currently 145
countries - had ratified a revised text of the
convention approved by the FAO Conference in
1997. That revision equips the IPPC with the
"formal standard-setting machinery" - the CPM -
needed to fulfil its role under the WTO's
Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and How has the revision changed the IPPC?
Phytosanitary Measures. "What the revision does is strengthen the IPPC
by giving it mechanisms for oversight and for
"Important pests." Every crop species hosts developing and adopting International
an estimated 200 to 500 pests, including bird