Technical Consultation Among Regional Plant Protection Organizations

Pest reporting through RPPOs Document: TC-RPPO 10/13 Agenda item: 07.3

TECHNICAL CONSULTATION AMONG REGIONAL PLANT PROTECTION ORGANIZATIONS

22nd Session

Azores, Portugal, 22-26 August 2010.

PEST REPORTING THROUGH RPPOs

TRANSMISSION OF PEST REPORTS TO THE IPP BY RPPOs ON BEHALF OF NPPOs

Background

While the CPM has indicated that the IPPC website is the preferred forum for information exchange, many countries meet their reporting obligations through other means. In particular, many countries carry out reporting through the websites of the Regional Plant Protection Organization to which they are a member. In order to compliment national reporting efforts and to ensure that as much information as possible is available on the International Phytosanitary Portal (IPP), a proposal was put forward for RPPOs to submit national reporting information to the IPPC website on behalf of their member countries. The FAO Legal Office has advised that NPPOs may submit reports to the IPPC website through their RPPO as long as they provide a notification to the Secretariat that this was how they will meet their reporting obligations. Likewise, it was agreed that if a country decides to communicate pest reports via its RPPO it is clear that responsibility for the information rests with the NPPO. It is anticipated that this will greatly facilitate national reporting and improve the accessibility to information. Given that the resources of NPPOs, RPPOs and the IPPC Secretariat are limited, it is important that this activity incur as little additional resources as possible. With this limitation in mind, specifications for an automated system for RPPOs to transmit pest reports to the IPP have been developed and are provided below. If this mechanism is found to be effective and sufficient, this method will be applied to other reporting types.

Mechanism

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1. Authorization: Pest reporting by the NPPO to the RPPO should follow procedures as agreed by the RPPO and its members. For the RPPO to submit pest reports to the IPPC website on behalf of a country, the NPPO must first indicate that the RPPO is authorized to do this.

A form for indicating that an RPPO may carry out pest reporting on behalf of a country is available on the following page of the IPPC website: https://www.ippc.int/file_uploaded/1257530990_IPPC_OCP_notification_of_reporti.doc. The completed form should be sent to the IPPC Secretariat ([email protected]).

This form will also be available online on the NPPO’s dashboard under “My preferences”.

2. Data compatability: Pest reports provided by RPPOs should be completely compatible to pest reports published on the IPPC website. The metadata requirements are listed in Annex 1. The IPPC Secretariat will not check or modify pest reports submitted by NPPOs or RPPOs.

3. Data transmission: A template form listing possible fields is given in Annex 1.

Pest report metadata should be transmitted to [email protected].

4. Pest report publication: Upon receipt of the data, it will automatically be loaded onto the page for the country in question and a notification will be sent to the RPPO and NPPO reporting.

Current situation

Until now, only one country has sent to the IPPC Secretariat a request to report through an RPPO.

Annex 1

Template form listing the possible fields

Required fields are highlighted.

Insert some text 0 2 11 Insert some text Insert some text First finding on conifers in UK Insert some text contact name Address line 1 Address line 1 Address line 3 Address line 4 country id email aaa.doc http://www.forestry.gov.uk/newsrele.nsf/web- allbysubject/2A957A7E612E73A480257671003AA8E8 Pest_reporting country id

POSSIBLES VALUES FOR FIELDS: PEST STATUS Label Value to use Unknown 0 Present: in all parts of the area 1 Present: only in some areas 2 Present: except in specified pest free areas 3 Present: in all parts of the area where host crop(s) are grown 4 Present: only in protected cultivation 5 Present: seasonally 6 Present: but managed 7 Present: subject to official control 8 Present: under eradication 9 Present: at low prevalence 10 Absent: no pest records 11 Absent: pest eradicated 12 Absent: pest no longer present 13 Absent: pest records invalid 14 Absent: pest records unreliable 15 Absent: intercepted only 16 Transient: non-actionable 17 Transient: actionable, under surveillance 18 Transient: actionable, under eradication 19 Other (specify) 20

REPORT STATUS Label Value to use Preliminary 0 Final 1

COUNTRY ID: Label Value to use Afghanistan [AFG] 88 Albania [ALB] 173 Algeria [DZA] 251 American Samoa [ASM] 280

Andorra [AND] 172 Angola [AGO] 250 Anguilla [AIA] 254 Antigua and Barbuda [ATG] 121 Argentina [ARG] 120 Armenia [ARM] 171 Aruba [ABW] 292 Australia [AUS] 72 Austria [AUT] 170 Azerbaijan [AZE] 169 Bahamas [BHS] 119 Bahrain [BHR] 87 Bangladesh [BGD] 201 Barbados [BRB] 118 Belarus [BLR] 168 Belgium [BEL] 167 Belize [BLZ] 117 Benin [BEN] 249 Bermuda [BMU] 255 Bhutan [BTN] 200 Bolivia Plurinational State of [BOL] 116 Bosnia and Herzegovina [BIH] 166 Botswana [BWA] 248 Brazil [BRA] 115 Brunei Darussalam [BRN] 199 Bulgaria [BGR] 165 Burkina Faso [BFA] 247 Burundi [BDI] 246 Cambodia [KHM] 198 Cameroon [CMR] 245 Canada [CAN] 56 Cape Verde [CPV] 244 Cayman Inslands [CYM] 256 Central African Republic [CAF] 243 Chad [TCD] 242 Chile [CHL] 114 China [CHN] 197 Colombia [COL] 113

Comoros [COM] 241 Congo [COG] 240 Congo The Democratic Republic of the [COD] 239 Cook Islands [COK] 71 Costa Rica [CRI] 112 Côte d'Ivoire [CIV] 238 Croatia [HRV] 164 Cuba [CUB] 111 Cyprus [CYP] 163 Czech Republic [CZE] 162 Denmark [DNK] 161 Djibouti [DJI] 237 Dominica [DMA] 110 Dominican Republic [DOM] 109 Ecuador [ECU] 108 Egypt [EGY] 86 El Salvador [SLV] 107 Equatorial Guinea [GNQ] 236 Eritrea [ERI] 235 Estonia [EST] 160 Ethiopia [ETH] 234 Europeaun Union [EU] 159 Falkland Islands [FLK] 257 Faroe Islands [FRO] 1110534 Fiji [FJI] 70 Finland [FIN] 158 France [FRA] 157 French Guiana [GUF] 295 French Polynesia [PYF] 296 French Southern Territories [ATF] 297 Gabon [GAB] 233 Gambia [GMB] 232 Georgia [GEO] 156 Germany [DEU] 155 Ghana [GHA] 231 Gibraltar [GIB] 258 Greece [GRC] 154 Greenland [GRL] 1110533

Grenada [GRD] 106 Guadeloupe [GLP] 298 Guam [GUM] 281 Guatemala [GTM] 105 Guernsey [GGY] 259 Guinea [GIN] 230 Guinea-Bissau [GNB] 229 Guyana [GUY] 104 Haiti [HTI] 103 Holy See [VAT] 153 Honduras [HND] 152 Hungary [HUN] 151 Iceland [ISL] 150 India [IND] 196 Indonesia [IDN] 195 Iran Islamic Republic of [IRN] 85 Iraq [IRQ] 84 Ireland [IRL] 149 Israel [ISR] 148 Italy [ITA] 147 Jamaica [JAM] 102 Japan [JPN] 194 Jersey [JEY] 260 Jordan [JOR] 83 Kazakhstan [KAZ] 193 Kenya [KEN] 228 Kiribati [KIR] 69 Korea Democratic People's Republic of [PRK] 192 Korea Republic of [KOR] 191 Kuwait [KWT] 82 Kyrgyzstan [KGZ] 190 Lao People's Democratic Republic [LAO] 189 Latvia [LVA] 146 Lebanon [LBN] 81 Lesotho [LSO] 227 Liberia [LBR] 226 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya [LBY] 80 Liechtenstein [LIE] 145

Lithuania [LTU] 144 Luxembourg [LUX] 143 Macedonia the former Yugoslav Republic of [MKD] 125 Madagascar [MDG] 225 Malawi [MWI] 224 Malaysia [MYS] 188 Maldives [MDV] 187 Mali [MLI] 223 Malta [MLT] 142 Marshall Islands [MHL] 68 Martinique [MTQ] 299 Mauritania [MRT] 222 Mauritius [MUS] 221 Mexico [MEX] 101 Micronesia Federated States of [FSM] 67 Moldova Republic of [MDA] 141 Monaco [MCO] 140 Mongolia [MNG] 186 Montenegro [MNE] 139 Montserrat [MSR] 261 Morocco [MAR] 220 Mozambique [MOZ] 219 Myanmar [MMR] 185 Namibia [NAM] 218 Nauru [NRU] 1110531 Nepal [NPL] 184 Netherlands Antilles [ANT] 293 Netherlands [NLD] 138 New Caledonia [NCL] 300 New Zealand [NZL] 65 Nicaragua [NIC] 100 Niger [NER] 217 Nigeria [NGA] 216 Niue [NIU] 64 Northern Mariana Islands [MNP] 282 Norway [NOR] 137 Oman [OMN] 79 Pakistan [PAK] 183

Palau [PLW] 63 Panama [PAN] 99 Papua New Guinea [PNG] 62 Paraguay [PRY] 98 Peru [PER] 97 Philippines [PHL] 182 Poland [POL] 136 Portugal [PRT] 135 Puerto Rico [PRI] 290 Qatar [QAT] 78 Réunion [REU] 301 Romania [ROM] 134 Russian Federation [RUS] 133 Rwanda [RWA] 215 Saint Helena [SHN] 262 Saint Kitts And Nevis [KNA] 556 Saint Lucia [LCA] 95 Saint Pierre and Miquelon [SPM] 253 Saint Vincent and The Grenadines [Vct] 94 Samoa [WSM] 61 San Marino [SMR] 132 Sao Tome and Principe [STP] 214 Saudi Arabia [SAU] 77 Senegal [SEN] 213 Serbia [SRB] 131 Seychelles [SYC] 212 Sierra Leone [SLE] 211 Singapore [SGP] 181 Slovakia [SVK] 130 Slovenia [SVN] 129 Solomon Islands [SLB] 60 Somalia [SOM] 210 South Africa [ZAF] 209 Spain [ESP] 128 Sri Lanka [LKA] 180 Sudan [SDN] 76 Suriname [SUR] 93 Swaziland [SWZ] 208

Sweden [SWE] 127 Switzerland [CHE] 126 Syrian Arab Republic [SYR] 75 Tajikistan [TJK] 179 Tanzania United Republic of [TZA] 207 Thailand [THA] 178 Timor-Leste [TLS] 177 Togo [TGO] 303 Tokelau [TKL] 1110532 Tonga [TON] 59 Trinidad and Tobago [TTO] 92 Tunisia [TUN] 205 Turkey [TUR] 124 Turkmenistan [TKM] 176 Turks and Caicos Islands [TCA] 263 Tuvalu [TUV] 58 Uganda [UGA] 204 Ukraine [UKR] 123 United Arab Emirates [ARE] 74 United States of America [USA] 89 United Kingdom [GBR] 122 Uruguay [URY] 91 Uzbekistan [UZB] 175 Vanuatu [VUT] 57 Venezuela Bolivarian Republic of [VEN] 90 Viet Nam [VNM] 174 Virgin Islands British [VGB] 264 Virgin Islands U.S. [VIR] 291 Wallis and Futuna Islands [WLF] 252 Yemen [YEM] 73 Zambia [ZMB] 203 Zimbabwe [ZWE] 294