THE REGIONAL BIOSECURITY
OPERATING PROCEDURES
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INTRODUCTION: The movement of cultural goods is not new to the Pacific: for hundreds of years, across miles of ocean, societies traded and exchanged their valued and symbolic creations. These served to enrich and amplify rituals, to initiate and strengthen bonds, to re-establish peace, to foster diversity and to generate wealth. Craftwork in the region remains a ‘true bearer of historical record’i...
The identification of alien invasive species (AIS) or invasive alien species (IAS) as a distinctly separate set of environmental risks from those posed by plant pests and animal diseases has gained impetus since the development of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1992. The CBD /focuses on organisms that have an impact on the...
The Pacific Plant Protection Organisation (PPPO) was established in 1994 by Resolution of the 34th South Pacific Conference in Port Vila, Vanuatu. It was mandated to exist as an auxiliary body of the Pacific Community and to continue within the existing structure of the SPC under Artcile IV of the Canberra Agreement . The PPPO is responsible for...
This regional operations manual began as linked modules of the procedures and reference data needed to fulfil a biosecurity service’s obligations for technically valid sanitary (zoo-sanitary and phytosanitary) measures at national and international levels. With the addition of many reference texts and links to databases and other information, the manual became more than an aid...
1.1 General requirements for import inspection Inspection covers the process for both imports and exports, but does not include activities such as testing or post-entry-quarantine of plants for planting (propagating material). This is covered in Section 1.1.1.4. This manual is designed so that the biosecurity officer may assemble a set of documents that describe the...
The main requirements for the importation of live animals and animal products is generally based on an initial import risk analysis for that particular animal/animal product. These requirements may include such things as sourcing from countries or zones within a country free of that particular disease of concern, the testing and certification of freedom from...
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