Standards approved by EPPO Council in 2009-09

At its last session in September 2009, the EPPO Council approved the following draft standards. All of them are now in press and will appear in due course in the Bulletin OEPP / EPPO Bulletin, as well as on this website.

EPPO Standards PM1 - General Phytosanitary Measures

Council approved the revision of EPPO Standard PM 1/2 EPPO A1 and A2 Lists of pests recommended for regulation as quarantine pests:

Addition to the A1 List (pests absent from the EPPO region):
- Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. allii

Additions to the A2 List (pests locally present in the EPPO region):
- Heracleum persicum (Apiaceae)
- Heracleum sosnowskyi (Apiaceae)
- Metamasius hemipterus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Transfers from the A1 List to the A2 List:
- Agrilus planipennis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)
- Aleurocanthus spiniferus (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae)
- Tuta absoluta (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)

Deletion from the A2 List:
- Lysichiton americanus (Araceae)

EPPO Standards PM3 - Phytosanitary Procedures

PM 3/72(2) Elements common to inspection of places of production, area-wide surveillance, inspection of consignments and lot identification (revision)
PM 3/74(1) EPPO Guidelines for the code of conduct on horticulture and invasive alien plants

EPPO Standards PM4 - Production of Healthy Plants for Planting

PM 4/10(2) Certification scheme for Rubus (revision)
PM 4/16(2) Certification scheme for hop (Humulus lupulus) (revision)
PM 4/35(1) Soil test for virus-vector nematodes in the framework of EPPO Standards PM 4 Schemes for the production of healthy plants for planting of ligneous plants and strawberry

EPPO Standards PM5 - Pest Risk Analysis

PM 5/3(4) Decision-support scheme for quarantine pests (revision)

EPPO Standards PM7 - Diagnostic protocols for regulated pests

Fungi:
- PM 7/90(1) Anisogramma anomala
- PM 7/91(1) Gibberella circinata
- PM 7/92(1) Gremmeniella abietina
- PM 7/17(2) Guignardia citricarpa (revision)
- PM 7/93(1) Melampsora medusae
- PM 7/18(2) Monilinia fructicola (revision)

Nematodes:
- PM 7/4(2) Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (revision)
- PM 7/40(2) Globodera rostochiensis and G. pallida (revision)
- PM 7/94(1) Hirschmaniella spp.
- PM 7/5(2) Nacobbus aberrans (revision)
- PM 7/95(1) Xiphinema americanum sensus lato

Bacteria:
- PM 7/23(2) Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. dieffenbachiae (revision)
- PM 7/96(1) Xylophilus ampelinus

General:
- PM 7/97(1) Immunofluorescence test
- PM 7/98(1) Specific requirements for laboratories preparing accreditation for plant pest diagnostic activity (in press - a draft can be obtained on request)

EPPO Standards PM8 - Commodity-specific phytosanitary measures

PM 8/2(1) Commodity-Specific Phytosanitary Measures: Coniferae

EPPO Standards PM9 - National regulatory control systems

PM 9/8(1) Eichhornia crassipes
PM 9/9(1) Heracleum mantegazzianum, H. sosnowskyi and H. persicum
PM 9/10(1) Generic elements for contingency plans
PM 9/1(2) Bursaphelenchus xylophilus and its vectors: procedures for official control (revision)

EPPO Standards PM10 - Phytosanitary treatments

PM 10/13(1) Disinfestation of production site against Bemisia tabaci
PM 10/14(1) Disinfestation of production site against Liriomyza sativae
PM 10/15(1) Disinfestation of production site against Thrips palmi
PM 10/16(1) Hot water treatment of grapevine to control Viteus vitifoliae and other insect pests

EPPO Standards PP1 - Efficacy Evaluation of Plant Protection Products

Specific standards
- Weeds in grassland (PP 1/61)
- Weeds in strawberry (PP 1/92)

Grassland renewal (PP 1/94)
Weeds in forests (PP 1/116)
Weeds on hard and semi-permeable surfaces [Weeds in non-agricultural land] (PP 1/117)
Weeds in amenity grassland (PP 1/136)
Weeds in tree and shrub nurseries (PP 1/141)
Control of suckers in Rubus (PP 1/154)
Regulation of growth in strawberry (PP 1/190)
Whiteflies (Trialeurodes vaporariorum, Bemisia tabaci) on protected crops (PP 1/36)
Otiorhynchus spp.on ornamentals and strawberry (PP 1/111)

Extrapolation tables to accompany EPPO Standard PP 1/257 Efficacy and crop safety extrapolations for minor uses (except tables on effectiveness of herbicides)

Solanaceae Effectiveness (fungicides)
Solanaceae Effectiveness (insecticides)

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