5th meeting of the Panel on Invasive Alien Species

Strasbourg (FR), 2004-10-13/14

The Panel on Invasive Alien Species met in Strasbourg (FR) on 2004-10-13/14 at the Council of Europe with the participation of Mr E. Fernandez-Galiano, head of the Natural Heritage and Biological Diversity Division. It was announced that a new scientific officer will be soon recruited at the EPPO headquarters to work on Invasive Alien Species.
The Panel finalized the format for the datasheet on plant species, including a range of habitats and climate and vegetation maps. The PRA scheme was reviewed and the Panel provided comments for the EPPO Panel on Pest Risk Analyses to adapt it better to plants. It identified a set of domestic measures to manage intentionally introduced plants.
The Panel decided to give a high profile to the list of over 40 invasive plant species already identified, with recommendations on some basic measures to be taken by all EPPO countries concerned. This list will be finalized at the next meeting. In parallel, the Panel will continue to work in detail on individual cases from this list, applying PRA and proposing specific measures. The EPPO declaration "EPPO protects plants" was revised and updated.

Heracleum mantegazzianum
by D. R. Ellis (US)
www.bugwood.org

The next meeting is planned in Montpellier (FR) on 2005-05-23/24, just before the workshop on "Invasive Plants in the Mediterranean Type Regions of the World" which EPPO will co-organize on 2005-05-25/27.

Participants

R. BAKER
Central Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York YO41 1LZ (GB) - 44/1904 462220 – 44/1904462250 – r.baker@csl.gov.uk

S. BUHOLZER
Agroscope FAL Reckenholz, Swiss Federal Research Station for Agroecology and Agriculture, 8046 Zürich (CH)
41/13777231 - 41/13777201 – serge.buholzer@fal.admin.ch

I. DANCZA
Central Service for Plant Protection and Soil Conservation, Budaörsi u. 141-145, H-1118 Budapest (HU)
36/13091041 – 36/12462955 – danczai@@ontsz.hu

J. NETLAND
Norwegian Crop Research Institute, Plant Protection Centre, Høgskoleveien 7, N-1432 ÅS (No)
47/64949315 – jan.netland@planteforsk.no

E. NORDBO
Danish Plant Directorate, Skovbrynet 20, DK-2800 LYNGBY (DK) - 45/45263891 – 45/45263613 – eno@pdir.dk

A. PENCE (Ms)
State Plant Protection Service, Plant Quarantine Department, Pulkveza Brieza Str. 17, Riga LV1010 (LV)
371/7323676 – 371/7322039 – agita.pence@vaad.gov.lv

G. SCHRADER (Ms)
BBA, Department for Plant Health, Messeweg 11/12, 38104 Braunschweig (DE)
49/531 2993375 – 49/531 2993007 – g.schrader@bba.de

M.H.C.G. STEEGHS
Plant Protection Service, P.O. Box 9102, 6700 HC Wageningen (NL)
31/317 496630 – 31/317 421701 – m.h.c.g.steeghs@minlnv.nl

V.A. TSIMOFEEVA (Ms)
National Academy of Sciences, Botanical Garden, 2B, Surganova Street, 220012Minsk (BY)
375/17 2842570 – 375/17 2842590 – veronika-2003@tut.by

Council of Europe
V. DE CUSSAC (Mrs)
Natural Heritage and Biological Diversity Division, 67075 Strasbourg Cedex (France)
33/388 413476 – 33/388 413751 – veronique.decussac@coe.int

E. FERNANDEZ-GALIANO
Natural Heritage and Biological Diversity Division, 67075 Strasbourg Cedex (France)
33/388 412259 – 33/388 413751 – eladio.fernandez-galiano@coe.int

EPPO
I. M. SMITH
M. SUFFERT (Ms)
1 rue Le Nôtre, 75016 Paris (FR) - 33/1 45207794 – 33/1 42248943 – hq@eppo.fr

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