6. Development of a pest risk analysis for South American Leaf Blight of rubber for APPPC rubber growing countries

The report presented to the Commission:
Amendments to the Plant Protection Agreement for the Asia and Pacific region were adopted at the 21^st session of APPPC in 1999 to update and align the Agreement with the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC, 1997) and the WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures. Also, at this Session rubber growing countries of the APPPC requested that Article IV and Appendix B of the Agreement as currently in force relating to SALB be retained until a pest risk analysis (PRA) on SALB has been completed and an appropriate regional standard agreed to by the APPPC. The PRA on SALB as in Annex V.

6.1 Adoption of the PRA report on SALB

After some discussion, the Session adopted the pest risk analysis on South American Leaf Blight (SALB) as basis for the development of a standard on measures for protection of the region from SALB.