Report of the 17th Regional Workshop on the review of Draft ISPMs, Suwon-si, Republic of Korea, 25-29 July, 2016

<p>The workshop was officiate by Dr. Bong-Kyun Park, Commissioner of the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency and attended by 36 experts from 18 countries. The first deliberation was on the updated on CPM matters follow by discussed on the first consultation of ISPMs that were: Amendments to ISPM 5 (Glossary of phytosanitary terms); National surveillance systems (2009-004) (ISPM 6 rev); Requirements for the use of temperature treatments as a phytosanitary measure. The workshop then review for second and third consultations of draft ISPMs that were: International movement of wood; Appendix 1 to ISPM 20: Arrangements for the verification of compliance of consignments by the importing country in the exporting country; International movement of vehicles, machinery and equipment; International movement of seed; and International movement of growing media in association with plants for planting. There were also numerous IPPC issues discussed in the workshop such as movement of sea containers, update on ePhyto, the Implementation Review and Support System, the International Year of Plant Health, the Surveillance Programme, Delivering diagnostic services, the development of an implementation body, a proposal guidelines for the management of plant and plant products carried by passengers and posted from abroad, the highlights of the activities of the APPPC, and emerging issues on plant health in the region. The last topic brought up were on the occurrence of pests in the region with many interesting points from brown plant hopper to Xylella to coffee. The detail report of the workshop is attach as link</p>