PM 8/3 (1): Quercus and Castanea

Specific scope

The purpose of the EPPO Standard on Quercus and Castanea is to recommend to EPPO Member Governments the phytosanitary measures which they should use or require for Quercus and Castanea plants, and plant products moving in international trade, to prevent the introduction and spread of regulated pests. Certain of these recommendations are addressed to all EPPO Member Governments, others are addressed only to countries considered to face a certain level of risk from the introduction and spread of the regulated pests concerned. All these recommendations are derived:

• ? from the EPPO Standards PM 1/2 (EPPO A1 and A2 lists)
• ? from the former EPPO standard PM 2 (pest‐specific phytosanitary measures) (which was withdrawn in 2006 by the Working Party on Phytosanitary Regulations)
• ? from Pest Risk Analysis
• ? from the Working Party on Phytosanitary Regulations
• ? from the ISPM n°15 ‘Guidelines for regulating wood packaging material in international trade’.