7️⃣ 5️⃣ Don't forget that as part of our 75th Anniversary celebrations we are running the EPPO Photography Contest! ➡️ Participants are invited to submit photos illustrating the diversity, importance, and impact of plant protection across the EPPO region. 🔗 Find out more here: photocontest.eppo.int

📢 Great to see @epponews.bsky.social digging into pest status determination & reporting procedures at their upcoming EPPO-NEPPO workshop. 👇 Register by 14 September.

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EPPO-NEPPO Workshop on Pest Reporting: register before September 14th : www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202... This Workshop aim to improve understanding of pest reporting obligations, including pest status determination, to share experiences, and to discuss pest reporting procedures & tools #planthealth

🥳 This year, we will be marking 75 years since the signing of the Convention for the establishment of EPPO. 🌍️ In the video below, you can see how our member countries have changed over time. ➡️ You can read more about our history here: www.eppo.int/ABOUT_EPPO/b...

Planning a communication campaign for kids? Need inspiration? You can now filter for communication material for children on the EPPO Platform on Communication Material: media.eppo.int 🌟 See some of the great examples!

7️⃣ 5️⃣ EPPO is celebrating it's 75th anniversary this year and to celebrate we will be posting some pictures from our archives across the summer. Here are some photos from the 1988 Conference on Bacterial Diseases of Gramineae. See more about EPPO's history here: www.eppo.int/ABOUT_EPPO/b...

Le nouveau numéro du Service d'information de l'OEPP est disponible: gd.eppo.int/media/data/r... Toutes les données correspondantes sont également entrées dans EPPO Global Database.

📢 The July issue of the EPPO Reporting Service is now available. ➡️ Read it here: gd.eppo.int/reporting/Rs... #horizonscanning #planthealth

⏰️ Just over a month left to apply to the EPPO Jens-Georg Unger Plant Health Fellowship! Find out more here: www.eppo.int/ABOUT_EPPO/s...

7️⃣ 5️⃣ EPPO is celebrating it's 75th anniversary this year and to celebrate we will be posting some pictures from our archives across the summer. Here are some photos from the 1950 Conference on the Control of the Colorado Potato Beetle held in Florence - just before EPPO was formed.

7️⃣ 5️⃣ Don't forget that as part of our 75th Anniversary celebrations we are running the EPPO Photography Contest! ➡️ Participants are invited to submit photos illustrating the diversity, importance, and impact of plant protection across the EPPO region. 🔗 Find out more here: photocontest.eppo.int

7️⃣ 5️⃣ This year it is EPPO's 75th anniversary. Over the course of this summer we will be sharing our achievements and memories. To start the series, here are two of the oldest photos we have at the headquarters - notice how things have changed?

📢 OUT NOW: 10th Newsletter of the EPPO Network of experts working on surveillance, monitoring, and control of the Emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis. ➡️ A note was also published on a recent finding in Slovakia 🔗 Read both and find out more about the network here: www.eppo.int/RESOURCES/sp...

EPPO-NEPPO Workshop on Pest Reporting: register before September 14th : www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202... This Workshop aim to improve understanding of pest reporting obligations, including pest status determination, to share experiences, and to discuss pest reporting procedures & tools #planthealth

📢 Don't forget that the applications for the EPPO Jens-Georg Unger Plant Health Fellowship are still open! ❗️ Applicants need agreement from their host organization, this can take some time, so don't leave it too late to apply! 🔗 See more: www.eppo.int/ABOUT_EPPO/s...

⚠️ ADDITION TO THE EPPO ALERT LIST ⚠️ ➡️ Physalis longifolia (Solanaceae), an invasive alien plant that can compete with crops. 🔎 Find out about the risks, damage and more: www.eppo.int/ACTIVITIES/p...

⚠️ ADDITION TO THE EPPO ALERT LIST ⚠️ ➡️ Chilli veinal mottle virus, an emerging virus that causes significant yield losses to pepper (Capsicum sp.). 🔎 Find out about the risks, damage and more: www.eppo.int/ACTIVITIES/p...

🌱 Web report now online for the Working Party on Phytosanitary Regulations (WPPR) 🌱 🆕 Read about new and revised Standards, pests recommended for regulation and more! 🔗 Read the full report here: www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/202...

📅 This week an Expert Working Group is meeting in the EPPO Headquarters in Paris to carry out a pest risk analysis (PRA) for the EPPO region for Austropuccinia psidii (myrtle rust). 📢 Stay tuned for more updates!

Le nouveau numéro du Service d'information de l'OEPP est disponible: gd.eppo.int/media/data/r... Toutes les données correspondantes sont également entrées dans EPPO Global Database.

📢 The June issue of the EPPO Reporting Service is now available. ➡️ Read it here: gd.eppo.int/reporting/Rs... #horizonscanning #planthealth

❓️ Do you extract information from the Global Database (e.g. EPPO codes, taxonomic information, phytosanitary data) using APIs? ❗️ The EPPO Data Service has evolved into the EPPO Data Portal. This transition marks a significant upgrade to our infrastructure. ➡️ Read the guide: data.eppo.int/legacy

3️⃣ Day 3 of the Working Party on Phytosanitary Regulations! After reviewing EPPO's info and communication activities, the working party attended World Food Safety Day 2026. Afterwards, they visited the rare grapevine collection and Wine Museum at the LEPL Scientific Research Centre of Agriculture. 🍇

⚽️ Are you watching the World Cup? ⚽️ 📽️ Then check out these videos from NAPPO's Know Before You Go FIFA 2026 World Cup campaign on the EPPO Platform on Communication Material: media.eppo.int/index?id_gal... 🙏 Thank you to NAPPO for this initiative and kindly sharing the videos for the Platform.

7️⃣ 5️⃣ As part of our 75th Anniversary celebrations we are launching the EPPO Photography Contest! ➡️ Participants are invited to submit photos illustrating the diversity, importance, and impact of plant protection across the EPPO region. 🔗 Find out more here: photocontest.eppo.int

Day 2 of the Working Party on Phytosanitary Regulations. ➡️ During it's second day, the Working Party is discussing new proposals for addition to EPPO A1 and A2 Lists of pests recommended for regulation as quarantine pests as well as delisting proposals and reviewing new/revised Standards.

This week it is the Working Party on Phytosanitary Regulations, which is kindly being hosted by the NPPO of Georgia in Tbilisi.

📅 On 18 June, EPPO participated in the 7th annual workshop of the European Reference Laboratory for Insects and Mites, hosted by the Austrian Research Centre for Forests in Vienna. ➡️ Yassine Aoutil, a Scientific Officer at EPPO provided an update on EPPO activities in entomology.

📅 This week EPPO Scientific Officer Dmitrii Musolin is attending the General Assembly of the Bexyl Project “Beyond Xylella, Integrated Management Strategies for Mitigating Xylella fastidiosa impact in Europe”. 🤝 EPPO is a partner in the EU-funded Bexyl Project. See more: bexylproject.org

❓ Have you visited the EPPO Platform on PRAs recently? 🆕 New PRAs from Slovenia, UK, Germany, EFSA and more have been added recently! ➡️ See more at pra.eppo.int

Plants, fruit and seeds brought home from trips may carry hidden pests that can affect biodiversity and ecosystems far beyond the holiday destination. 📸 Take photos, not plants ✈️ Travel plant-safe Learn more about plant health while travelling: www.efsa.europa.eu/en/plh4l/tra... #PlantHealth4Life