The Regional
West Africa NPPOs and Partners Taskforce was established in August, 2017 in
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso as a consultation framework to address phytosanitary related
issues in the region. Since then, a regional action plan has been validated and
implemented. In this framework, regular annual meetings have been organized to
identify and address NPPOs priorities as well as annual Pre-CPM meetings to
develop consensus among countries on common positions to be presented at the
Commission on Phtosanitary Measures (CPM/IPPC), feeding into continental
consolidated and harmonized position. Therefore, it has become necessary to
sustain this important regional coordination and consultation and harmonization
mechanism as a satutory regional meeting for decision-making and information
sharing instrument for a takeover of the region's priorities by the NPPOs.
The meeting
aims to review West Africa and Sahel NPPOs Taskforce priorities, discuss major
plant health and SPS trade issues, and prepare for West Africa and Sahel Member
countries’ common positions to build, to address the Commission on
Phytosanitary Measures (CPM-17) agenda.
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