Agreement for the Establishment of the Near East Plant Protection Organization

Title (French)

Accord portant création de l'Organisation pour la protection des végétaux au Proche-Orient

Title (Spanish)

Acuerdo sobre el Establecimiento de la Organización de Protección Fitosanitaria para el Cercano Oriente

Place of adoption

Rabat

Depository

FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

Language

Arabic, English, French

Entry into force

Jan 8, 2009

Subject

Cultivated plants, Wild species & ecosystems

Keyword

Planting material/seeds Quarantine Hygiene/sanitary procedures International agreement-text Integrated pest management-IPM/pest management strategies Wild flora Plant production Standards Plant protection Crops/grasses International organization Data collection/reporting Research Pests/diseases Law reform/harmonization/deregulation

Abstract

Objectives: To establish the Near East Plant Protection Organisation (NEPPO). Summary of provisions: This Agreement has been adopted in the framework of the International Plant Protection Convention (1951), pursuant to its article VIII. The objective of the NEPPO is to promote international co-operation in the Near East Region with a view to controlling pests of plants and plant products, preventing their spread when economically important, and especially their introduction across national boundaries, and minimising interference with international trade resulting from phytosanitary measures (art. III). To this end, NEPPO’s functions are to, inter alia, promote the implementation of the aforementioned Convention, as well as the provisions of the International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides adopted by the FAO Conference and amended at its Twenty-fifth Session in November 1989, and facilitate co-operation in exchange of information and research on pests of plants, plant products and methods for their Institutional mechanisms: The Near East Plant Protection Organisation (NEPPO) is established with a Governing Council qualified to, inter alia, review the report and the recommendations submitted to it by the Executive Committee on the work of the Organisation (art. IX, X, and XIII). The Executive Committee is to give guidance to the Executive Director of the Organisation on the implementation of the policy and decisions adopted by the Governing Council (art. XIII and XV).

4. This Agreement shall enter into force, with respect to all States that have ratified it or acceded to it, on the date when instruments of ratification or accession have been deposited by the Governments of at least ten of the States specified in Annex I. Any other State specified in Annex I shall become a party to this Agreement on the date of the deposit of its instrument of ratification or accession.

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