全球病虫害控制（英文版）学术报告.pdfVIP

Agriculture, Biosecurity, Nutrition and Consumer Protection Department Food and Agriculture Organization 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 FAOs new Commission on Phytosanitary Measures. What it is, what it does... As the governing body of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), FAOs 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. The commission came into existence in October last year, by which time two-thirds of the IPPCs 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 WTOs 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 birds, Standards for Phytosanitary Measures [ISPMs], rats, insects, viruses, fungi and bacteria. which become the basis for harmonizing plant Thousands of them are considered important protection legislation, regulations and pests in many countries, and the economic procedures throughout the world. The new CPM damage they cause to agriculture annually runs