Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Europe's struggle to strengthen phytosanitary regs

hello, forest pest mavens!

I have posted a new blog at www.cisp.us - this one summarizes a recent article outlining how vulnerable Europe is to non-native tree-killing insects and pathogens and saying that the European Union is trying to strenthen its phytosanitary rules.  Unfortunately, World Trade Organization rules will make it difficult to adopt the most effective approaches.

The UK is now going it alone - so it will have both the opportunity & burden of adopting more effective phytosanitary regs.

I make some comparisons to the U.S.' situation, too.


Faith