IPPC Capacity Development guides now available in French
- 12/11/2020
- Posted by: Emmanuel Bourcelet
- Category: News
No CommentsIn the field of plant health, the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) is the world’s reference organisation. It offers many high-quality publications, including Capacity Development guides that support the activities of National Plant Protection Organisations (NPPOs). COLEACP has been collaborating with the IPPC to co-publish French versions of eight of these guides, which were originally published in English, particularly with the intention of making them available to the francophone countries in West Africa. The guides draw extensively on requirements specified… +Pest free areas for production and export of curry leaves in Ghana
- 30/09/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Ghana, News
The Plant Protection and Regulatory Services Directorate of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, in collaboration with COLEACP, organised a workshop in Accra on establishing and maintaining pest free areas for the production and export of curry leaves in Ghana. The workshop brought together officials from the Vegetable Producers and Exporters Association of Ghana (VEPEAG), Ministry of Trade and Industries, Ghana Export Promotion Authority, and the Directorate of Crop Services of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Other stakeholders also… +COLEACP and NPPOs share the results of an internal audit system
- 29/09/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Eswatini, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, News, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe
A recent e-meeting with NPPOs focused on setting up an internal audit system, supported by COLEACP’s Fit For Market SPS programme. The internal audit system relates to support for the preparation and implementation of dossiers (systemic approaches) submitted to the EU’s DG SANTE, with regard to the requirements of the new EU Plant Health Regulation for control of quarantine pests on certain fruit and vegetables. The meeting was attended by Directors and representatives of NPPOs from many countries including Benin,… +Important amendment to EU Plant Health regulations affecting exports of chillies and peppers (Capsicum)
- 26/10/2017
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Capsicum, Chillies, News
Until the new European Plant Health Regulation comes into force in December 2019, the application of existing EU rules is being reinforced. This has implications for third countries exporting to the EU, including the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states. On 15 July 2017, the European Commission published Implementing Directive 2017/1279, which sets out important new plant health rules affecting ACP exports. These rules require additional measures for the control of four new quarantine pests, including False Codling Moth (Thaumatotybia… +