6^th EPPO Workshop for Heads of Plant Pest Diagnostic Laboratories

Saku (EE), 2025-03-06/07

A Workshop for Heads of Laboratories will be held on 2025-03-06/07 in Saku, Estonia. The Workshop will start on Thursday the 6^th March at 09:00 and finish on Friday 7^th March at 17:30.

Objectives

The objectives of the Workshop are:

· To share experiences on tracing the origin of pest outbreaks (including new techniques to trace strains/populations) and to provide information that might be useful for pest tracking and outbreak management.

· To share experiences on the biological relevance of obtained diagnostics results and their interpretation.

Participants

The Workshop is open to Heads and Deputy Heads of Plant Pest Diagnostic Laboratories (or persons designated by the Head), those involved in EU Reference Laboratories, to the EPPO Panel on Diagnostics and Quality Assurance members and to risk managers.

Format

The Workshop will consist of two one-day sessions covering the two topics (Trace & Track and Biological Relevance of diagnostics results). For each session, presentations of laboratories experience will be made in the morning followed by an afternoon of discussion in small groups and a wrap up and recommendations.

The languages of the workshop will be English.

This workshop is part of a series of workshops for Heads of Plant Pest Diagnostic Laboratories, see the report from the last workshop here.