EPPO BulletinVolume 34, Issue 3 p. 439-440 Free Access Normes OEPP . EPPO Standards Phytosanitary procedures Procédures phytosanitaires First published: 31 January 2005 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2338.2004.00768.x Organisation Européenne et Méditerranéenne pour la Protection des Plantes European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat PM 3/61–63 Approval EPPO Standards are approved by EPPO Council. The date of approval appears in each individual standard. In the terms of Article II of the IPPC, EPPO Standards are Regional Standards for the members of EPPO. Review EPPO Standards are subject to periodic review and amendment. The next review date for this set of EPPO Standards is decided by the EPPO Working Party on Phytosanitary Regulations. Amendment record Amendments will be issued as necessary, numbered and dated. The dates of amendment appear in each individual standard (as appropriate). Distribution EPPO Standards are distributed by the EPPO Secretariat to all EPPO member governments. Copies are available to any interested person under particular conditions upon request to the EPPO Secretariat. Scope EPPO Phytosanitary Procedures are intended to be used by National Plant Protection Organizations, in their capacity as bodies responsible for the inspection, testing and treatment of plants and plant products moving in trade, or for the implementation of surveys against quarantine pests. References EU (2000) Council Directive 2000/29/EC of 8 May 2000 on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the community. Official Journal of the European Communities No. L169, 1– 112. EPPO/CABI (1997) Quarantine Pests for Europe, 2nd edn. CAB International, Wallingford (GB). FAO (1997) International Plant Protection Convention (new revised text). FAO, Rome. IPPC (1999) Glossary of phytosanitary terms. ISPM no. 5. IPPC Secretariat, FAO, Rome (IT). OEPP/EPPO (1996) Illustrations of Quarantine Pests for Europe. EPPO, Paris (FR). OEPP/EPPO (2000) EPPO Standard PM 1/2(9) EPPO A1 and A2 lists of quarantine pests. In EPPO Standards: General phytosanitary measures. EPPO, Paris. Definitions Fumigation: treatment with a chemical agent that reaches the commodity wholly or primarily in a gaseous state. Inspection: official visual examination of plants, plant products or other regulated articles to determine if pests are present and/or to determine compliance with phytosanitary regulations. Monitoring: an official ongoing process to verify phytosanitary situations. Phytosanitary procedure: any officially prescribed method for implementing phytosanitary regulations including the performance of inspections, tests, surveillance or treatments in connection with regulated pests. Survey: an official procedure conducted over a defined period of time to determine the characteristics of a pest population or to determine which species occur in an area. Test: official examination, other than visual, to determine if pests are present or to identify pests. Treatment: officially authorized procedure for the killing, removal or rendering infertile of pests. Outline of requirements EPPO Standards on phytosanitary procedures describe the methods to be followed for performing inspections, tests or treatments of commodities moving in trade, or surveys against quarantine pests. For many quarantine pests, a reference to the relevant EPPO Phytosanitary Procedure is made in the corresponding EPPO Pest-specific phytosanitary requirements (EPPO Standards PM 2). Existing EPPO standards in this series EPPO Standards on phytosanitary procedures arise from the programmes of activity of the EPPO Panels on Phytosanitary Measures and on Phytosanitary Treatments. The first 58 EPPO Standards on phytosanitary procedures were originally published in Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin, following a numbering sequence described in Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin 20, 229-233, which provides a list in approximate chronological order of appearance. Two more recent standards have been published: PM 3/59(1) Synchytrium endobioticum: soil tests and descheduling of previously infested plots. Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin 29, 221–232. PM 3/60(1) Testing growing medium and plants in growing medium. Bulletin OEPP/EPPO Bulletin 32, 223–230. All these EPPO Standards have recently been revised to bring them into line with new EPPO terminology, and published in a new publication Phytosanitary Procedures, available from the EPPO Secretariat, 1 rue Le Nôtre, 75016 Paris (FR). Volume34, Issue3December 2004Pages 439-440 ReferencesRelatedInformation