EUROPEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN PLANT PROTECTION ORGANIZATION
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Meloidogyne minor
Extracts of reports of EPPO Meetings
As mentioned on the introductory section of the Web page on PRA documents, PRA documents are working documents which have usually been produced by an assessor whose opinion may have been commented during Panel meetings and comments have usually not been included in the PRA documents but are found in Panel meeting reports. This document consists of extracts of EPPO Meetings’ discussions on Pest Risk Analysis documents on the relevant pest. Discussions on Pest Specific Phytosanitary Requirements (PSPR)[1], have also been reported when relevant as they include elements on possible risk management options.
Report of the 41st meeting of the Panel on Phytosanitary Measures (Paris, 2009-02-16/20)
7. Candidate pests to be recommended for regulation by EPPO member countries
7.3 National PRAs to review and preparation of Pest Risk Management
Meloidogyne minor
Ms Petter (Chairman) explained that a joint British Dutch PRA had been performed on this pest in 2006. The Panel on nematodes in 2007 suggested that the pest should be added to the Alert List and it was envisaged that the PRA could be revised. She informed the Panel that the PRA has not been updated. She contacted Ms Hockland (Food and Environment Research Agency, GB) who confirmed that in the UK there are few new findings to report, in 2008 M. minor has been picked up at low levels in samples from pasture but there have been no additional outbreaks in potatoes since 2005. Mr Rikken confirmed that the pest was detected twice on potato fields that were pasture for many years. Ms Bouhot-Delduc commented that French expert agrees with the conclusion of the PRA but she raised a few technical questions which were sent to the authors of the PRA. In particular, she explained that more details would be welcomed on how damage was evaluated; is it in terms of quality, yield?
The Panel agreed with the conclusions of the PRA that economic damage is not important and noted that there was uncertainty about the distribution of the nematode in the EPPO region (it may be widespread).
The Panel discussed whether M. minor should be added to the Alert List. Ms Paulsen considered that the pest should be added to the Alert List to raise awareness of EPPO countries about this pest and that this might help more information on its distribution to be obtained. Ms Petter (Chairman) concluded that this she will discuss this with Ms Roy.
Report of the 47th meeting of the Working Party on Phytosanitary Regulations (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ES, 2009-06-16/19)
8. EPPO pest lists
8.2 Pests evaluated and not proposed for regulation
Meloidogyne minor
Ms Petter (Chairman) explained that the Panel on phytosanitary measures had agreed with the conclusions of the national PRA that economic damage was not important and noted that there was uncertainty about the distribution of the nematode in the EPPO region (it may be widespread). She informed the Working Party that the Panel on nematodes had considered that the pest should be added to the Alert List to raise awareness of EPPO countries about it and that this might help in obtaining more information on its distribution.
[1] formerly called Specific Quarantine Requirements (SQR)