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Glasshouse quarantine pests for the EPPO region and measures recommended by EPPO and the EU to prevent their spread 1
Author(s) -
Smith I. M.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
eppo bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.327
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1365-2338
pISSN - 0250-8052
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2338.1999.tb00788.x
Subject(s) - quarantine , sowing , directive , greenhouse , biology , european union , phytosanitary certification , thrips , agronomy , horticulture , business , ecology , international trade , computer science , programming language
The EPPO A1 and A2 quarantine lists (with corresponding specific quarantine requirements) and Annexes I and II of EU Directive 77/93 (with requirements in Annex IV) cover a number of important glasshouse quarantine pests: Liriomyza spp., Bemisia tabaci and the viruses it transmits, Frankliniella occidentalis , tomato spotted wilt tospovirus, Thrips palmi, Aculops fuchsiae, Helicoverpa and Spodoptera spp., Opogona sacchari and Radopholus similis. Most frequently, the requirements made to exporting countries for these pests centre on country or area freedom, place of production freedom (usually over the last growing season), treatment of plants immediately before dispatch. Because many of the plants concerned have a wide host range, there is some difficulty in deciding which plant species should be regulated, or whether cut flowers, fruits or vegetables should be regulated as well as plants for planting. The requirements for some of these glasshouse pests are among the broadest included in the EPPO and EU system (e.g. all plants for planting, except seeds and bulbs, for T. palmi ). The recommended requirements are generally well harmonized between EPPO and the EU, except in respect of the categories of exporting countries considered. The EU requirements frequently put neighbouring non‐EU European or Mediterranean countries on the same basis as the most remote continents. Such an approach does not seem justifiable to EPPO.