5. Facilitating horticultural market access
This category provides information which will assist in developing and implementing policies which help to facilitate the access of New Zealand's horticultural products to overseas markets. Research activities are likely to include:
- Determining pest/host associations. Development of precise phytosanitary standards (and negotiation of best possible access) is based on an adequate knowledge of pest complexes associated with export commodities and overseas categorisation (quarantine/non-quarantine) of pests. In order to develop these standards and effectively debate technical justification of access requirements, MAF requires information on the organisms associated with New Zealand horticultural and arable produce. Some information is currently present in New Zealand, but has not been collated into a form acceptable to importing countries.
- Refining export certification procedures. Research on the size of samples or sampling procedures to provide the required level of confidence that the importing country's residue and phytosanitary requirements are being met.
- Establishing and maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of the sanitary (residue) and phytosanitary requirements (including sampling and enforcement) of our trading partners. Both the WTO:SPS Agreement and the impending modification of the International Plant Protection Convention require our trading partners to have technically-defensible reasons for restricting imports of products from New Zealand. Well-founded research will enable New Zealand to debate the technical justification of phytosanitary requirements and modify MAF's export certification programme to achieve the goal of accurate certification with minimum intervention.
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| Programme Goal: | To make publicly available a comprehensive record of validated pest-host associations in economically important New Zealand crops. |
Objective 1
| Objective Title: | Validation of priority information |
| Research Leader: | John Keall |
Description:
To consolidate the PPIN base data set of validated information on pest-host associations in priority crops by:
- comparison with existing pest lists compiled for export purposes, or published records, to determine completeness of PPIN data set;
- retrieval and validation of host-pest associations not represented in the data set;
- assessment of records of eradicated organisms and refuted records of economic importance for inclusion in the data set;
- retrieving authenticated data from other scientific organisations to augment the data set; and
- continuation of data entry into PPIN of validated data.
Publish validated records via the Plant Pest Information Network (PPIN).
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Farm Monitoring Programme Manager
Monitoring and Evaluation
MAF Policy
PO Box 2526
Wellington
NEW ZEALAND
Phone: +64 4 894 0623
Fax: +64 4 894 0741
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