CPM Rules of Procedure with recent amendments now available

The CPM Rules of Procedure recently approved are now available. As you recall, the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM) adopted amendments to its Rules of Procedure at its Eighth Session, which was held in Rome in April, 2013. The IPPC Secretariat would like to inform the Contracting Parties that, on 8 November 2013, the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations approved the amendments as attached, in accordance with Rule XIV of the Rules of Procedure of the CPM. The amendments to the Rules came into force on the date of the approval, i.e. 8 November 2013.