EPPO Meetings in 2017 – short reports

Panels and Expert Working Groups

• 7th Meeting of the Panel on Diagnostics and Quality Assurance (Tbilisi, GE, 2017-01-17/19)

• 5th Meeting of the ad hoc Panel on Plant Protection Information (Vienna, 2017-02-01/02)
• 17^th Meeting of the Panel on General Standards on Efficacy Evaluation Wageningen (NL), 2017-02-20/22
• 23rd meeting of the Panel on Phytosanitary Measures for Potato (Antalya, TR, 2017-02-20/22)
• Seed potato Sector - Expert Working Group for the RNQP Project (Antalya, TR, 2017-02-23/24)
• 7th Meeting of the ad hoc Panel on Harmonization of data on plant protection products (EPPO Headquarters, Paris, 2017-03-06/08)
• 16th Meeting of the Panel on Efficacy Evaluation of Herbicides and Plant Growth Regulators (Paris, 2017-03-13/14)
• 22nd Meeting of the Panel on Quarantine Pests for Forestry (Paris, 2017-03-20/22)
• 55th meeting of the Panel on Phytosanitary Measures (Paris, 2017-03-22/24)
• Forestry Sector - Expert Working Group for the RNQP Project (Paris, 2017-03-22/23)
• 2^nd Meeting of the EPPO Panel on Diagnostics in mycology (Zagreb, 2017-04-26/28)
• Fruit (including hop) and Grapevine Sector - Expert Working Group for the RNQP Project (Paris, 2017-05-02/04)
• Agricultural species Sector - Expert Working Group for the RNQP Project (Paris, 2017-05-30/06-01)
• 21st meeting of the EPPO Panel on Diagnostics in Bacteriology (Bari, IT, 2017-05-29/31)
• Vegetable species sector - Expert Working Group for the RNQP Project (Paris, 2017-07-04/07)
• 67th Meeting of the Panel on CPM affairs (Tbilisi, 2017-09-06/08)
• 11th Meeting of the Panel on Diagnostics in Nematology (Wageningen, NL, 2017-09-06/08)
• Ornamental species Sector - Expert Working Group for the RNQP Project (Paris, 2017-09-12/15)
• 10th Joint EPPO/IOBC Panel Meeting on Biological Control Agents (Moscow, 2017-10-10/12)

• 5th meeting of the EPPO Panel on Diagnostics in Virology and Phytoplasmology (Bari, IT, 2017-11-20/21)

• 46th Meeting of the Panel on Efficacy Evaluation of Fungicides and Insecticides (Barcelona, Spain, 2017-11-28/30)

Working Parties

• 47th Meeting of the Working Party on Plant Protection Products (Berlin, 2017-05-10/12)
• 55th meeting of the Working Party on Phytosanitary Regulations (Gdansk, PL, 2017-06-20/23)

Council Session and Colloquium

• 67^th Council Session (Antalya, TR, 2017-09-27/28)
• EPPO Council Colloquium on the use of biological control agents in protected cultivation (Antalya, TR, 2017-09-28)

Conferences and Workshops

• EPPO Codes users meeting – webinar (EPPO headquarters, Paris, 2017-03-06)
• Workshop on Flexible Scope (Wageningen, NL, 2017-06-26/28)
• EPPO Workshop on Maintenance of Nematode Collections (Wageningen, NL, 2017-09-05/06)
• EPPO Workshop on integrated management of insect pests in oilseed rape (Berlin, 2017-09-20/22)
• Workshop on the use of Next Generation Sequencing technologies for plant pest diagnostics (Bari, IT, 2017-11-22/23)

• Workshop for inspectors on tools available for inspection (York, GB, 2017-12-13/15)