Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures - Regionalization - Communication from the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC)

World Trade Organization G/SPS/GEN/568 17 June 2005 (05-2574) Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original: English regionalization Communication from the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) The following communication, dated 13 June 2005, is being circulated at the request of the IPPC. It reproduces an excerpt from the Report of the Seventh Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (ICPM) recording the discussion and decisions taken on regionalization, and the report of the open-ended Working Group on Regionalization to the Seventh ICPM (circulated as Appendix XII of the Report). _______________ REPORT Seventh Interim Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (excerpts) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ICPM-7 (2005) / REPORT 7.4 Regionalization The Secretariat introduced the paper on regionalization and emphasized that the iss