14th meeting of the Panel on Phytosanitary Measures for Potato

Ljubljana, 2007-02-13/15

The Panel on Phytosanitary Measures for Potato held its 14th meeting in Ljubljana on 2007-02-13/15 at the kind invitation of Mr A. Potocnik. Thanks are due to him and his colleagues for their hospitality and the excellent organization of the meeting.

The Panel discussed EPPO activities on Synchytrium endobioticum.

It agreed that a harmonized code system should be used to identify pathotypes. The code system defined by Baayen et al. (2006) was found suitable because it combines the numeric code historically used in Western EPPO Countries and the alphabetic code historically used in Eastern EPPO Countries and avoids any ambiguities. This article proposes a new standardized code to be used for the 43 pathotypes currently known and described in Europe. For details, see Baayen RP, Cochius, G, Hendriks, H, Meffert, JP, Bakker, J, Bekker, M, van den Boogert, PHJF, Stachewicz, H, and van Leeuwen, GCM, 2006. History of potato wart disease in Europe – a proposal for harmonisation in defining pathotypes. European Journal of Plant Pathology 116: 21-31.

The Panel noted that historically, pathotypes present in different countries were tested with cultivars specific of these countries, which make it difficult to compare them. It would be useful that all countries use the same set of differentials to identify pathotypes that are really different in the EPPO region. The Panel checked the list of providers for each cultivar specified in the EPPO Diagnostic Protocol for Synchytrium endobioticum PM 7/28 and updated it.

The Panel discussed the benefits of contingency plans and national regulatory control systems in particular for PSTVd. It agreed that a standard defining generic elements for contingency planning should be used in combination with national regulatory control systems (series PM 9). Existing standards from this series will be reviewed at the next Panel meeting to consider the need for further practical details.

The Panel reviewed the comments from country consultation on the draft standard General crop inspection procedure for potato and finalized it. It will be presented to the Working Party on Phytosanitary Regulations for approval.

Participants

Dorota Buzon (Mrs)
State Plant Health and Seed Inspection Service, Phytosanitary Supervision Division, Wspolna 30, 00930 WARSAW (PL) - 48/226231599 - 48/226232714 - d.buzon@piorin.gov.pl

Neil Giltrap (Mr)
Central Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, Y041 1LZ YORK (GB) - 44/1904462217 - 44/1904462250 - n.giltrap@csl.gov.uk

Miroslav Husak (Mr)
State Phytosanitary Administration, Tesnov 17, 11705 PRAHA (CZ) - 420/2 218 125 99 - 420/2 218 128 04 - miroslav.husak@srs.cz

Colin Jeffries (Mr)
Scottish Agricultural Science Agency, UK Potato Quarantine Unit, 1 Roddinglaw Road, EH12 9FJ EDINBURGH (UK) - 44/1312448868 - 44/1312448940 - colin.jeffries@sasa.gsi.gov.uk

David Michelante (Mr)
Agence Fédérale pour la Sécurité de la Chaine Alimentaire, Politique de Contrôle Protection des végétaux & Sécurité de la Production Végétale, WTC 3- 20°étage, Bld Simon Bolivar 30, 1000 BRUXELLES (BE) - 32/22084701 - 32/22084743 - david.michelante@afsca.be

Petra Müller (Mrs)
BBA, Department for national and international Plant Health, Stahnsdorfer Damn 81, 14532 KLEINMACHNOW (DE) - 49/3320348377 - 49/3320348385 - P.Mueller@BBA.DE

Andrej Potocnik (Mr)
MAFF, Phytosanitary Inspection Service, Zgornji Brnik 130E, 4210 BRNIK-AERODROM (SI) - 386/42018630 - - andrej.potocnik@gov.si

Alberto Saccardi (Mr)
Servizio Fitosanitario Regionale, Regione del Veneto, Viale dell' Agricultura 1/a, 37060 BUTTAPIETRA-VERONA (IT) - 390/458676927 - 390/458676937 - alberto.saccardi@regione.veneto.it

Josef Soellinger (Mr)
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety(AGES), Institut for Potatoes and Plant Genetic Resources, Wieningerstrasse 8, A-4021 LINZ (AT) - 43/5055541211 - 43/5055541119 - josef.soellinger@ages.at

Barbara Uznanska (Mrs)
State Plant Health and Seed Inspection Service, Phytosanitary Supervision Division, Wspolna 30, 00930 WARSAW (PL) - 48/226231158 - 48/226232714 - b.uznanska@piorin.gov.pl

Rasa Zitkuviene (Mrs)
State Plant Protection Service, Plant Quarantine Department, Kalvariju str. 62, LT-09304 VILNIUS (LT) - 370/5 275 4353 - 370/5 275 2128 - vaatra@vaat.lt

EPPO
Nico VAN OPSTAL (Mr)
Muriel SUFFERT (Mrs)
OEPP/EPPO, 1 rue Le Nôtre, 75016 PARIS (FR) - 33/ 1 45 20 77 94 - 33/ 1 42 24 89 43 - hq@eppo.fr

Observers
Janina Butrymowicz (Mrs)
Main Inspectorate of Plant Protection and Seed Service, Centralner Laboratorium, ul.Zwirki i Wigugy 73, 87100 TORUN (PL) - 48/566236004 - 48/566528228 - j.butrymowicz@piorin.gov.pl

Kerstin Flath (Mrs)
Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (BBA), Institute of Plant Protection in Field Crops and Grassland, Stahnsdorfer Damn 81, 14532 KLEINMACHNOW (DE) - 49/3320348236 - 49/3320348425 - k.flath@bba.de

Irène Koomen (Mrs)
Dept. Integrated Plant Protection, Plant Protection Institute, P.O. Box 9102, HC 6700 WAGENINGEN (NL) - 31/317496868 - 31/317421701 - i.koomen@minlnv.nl

Alexandra Schlenzig (Mrs)
Scottish Agricultural Science Agency, UK Potato Quarantine Unit, 1 Roddinglaw Road, EH12 9FJ EDINBURGH (GB) - 44/1312448937 - 44/1312448940 - alexandra.schlenzig@sasa.gsi.gov.uk

Iveta Siruckova (Mrs)
State Phytosanitary Administration, Povelska 16, 78302 OLOMOUC-NEMALANY (CZ) - 420/585227790 - 420/585570150 - iveta.siruckova@srs.cz

Henk Stigter (Mr)
Plantenziektenkundige Dienst, 15 Geertjesweg, P.O.Box 9102, 6706 EA WAGENINGEN (NL) - 31/317496822 - - h.stigter@minlnv.nl

Gérard Van Leeuwen (Mr)
Plantenziektenkundige Dienst, 15 Geertjesweg, P.O.Box 9102, 6706 EA WAGENINGEN (NL) - 31/317496822 - G.C.M.VAN.LEEUWEN@minlnv.nl

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