EPPO Standards on Efficacy Evaluation of Plant Protection Products

Updated and consolidated edition in a web-based database
- http://pp1.eppo.org -

The EPPO standards for the efficacy evaluation of plant protection products (PP1) describe the conduct of trials carried out to assess the efficacy of plant protection products against specific pests. They are addressed to all institutions, official registration authorities, public institutes or private firms carrying out such trials. In Europe, they are now considered as reference documents in Directive 93/71/EEC of the European Union amending Directive 91/414.

Until 2008, these standards were published as brochures but following numerous demands, the EPPO Secretariat has released in February 2009 an electronic version of the whole series of EPPO PP1 Standards (more than 260 standards covering a wide range of crops and pests - view here the full list of approved standards). This database includes new or revised standards, published up to 2011-09, and consolidates all existing standards, so that the recent updates are incorporated and superseded standards are excluded. All Standards are available in English, most of them in French, and for few of them a Russian translation is provided. In addition to the texts of the Standards, the database includes an introduction about the history and the development of the whole EPPO programme on efficacy evaluation of plant protection products.

All Standards can be easily retrieved as PDF files by searching for:

• a pest or a crop by its scientific name, common name, or its EPPO Code,
• a Standard by its number,
• a word or a group of words in the title of the Standard (e.g. “minor uses”, “resistance”, “aphids”).

All general Standards (e.g. design, conduct, reporting and analysis of trials, phytotoxicity, effects on succeeding crops, analysis of resistance risk, minor uses) can be accessed free of charge. Access to specific Standards (e.g. aphids on potato, weeds in cereals) is provided for an annual fee. You can choose to subscribe to the full set of standards, or to single or multiple categories as explained below.

First subscriptions and renewal of yearly subscriptions should be made directly online (secured payment): http://pp1.eppo.org/subscription.php

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