2. Location and approximate area affected
7. Detailed symptoms, when applicable
8. Deviation(s) from the normal pattern as regards
The Swiss Federal Plant Protection Service (FPPS) is responsible for any kind of phytosanitary measures in order to prevent the introduction and spread of particularly harmful pests and diseases that affect plants and plant products. The FPPS is run jointly by the Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). The FOAG is responsible for the sector of agricultural and horticultural crops, whereas the FOEN is responsible for forest plants, wood and wood products, including invasive plants. According to the Federal Law on Agriculture (RS 910.1 Loi fédérale du 29 avril 1998 sur l’agriculture) and the corresponding ordinance (RS 916.20 Ordonnance du 31 octobre 2018 sur la protection des végétaux), notifiable plant diseases and pests are reported to either the FOAG or the FOEN that transmit reports to the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO). Reporting of invasive plants to the FOEN, which then communicates with the EPPO, is primarily regulated in the Ordinance on the Release of Organisms into the Environment (RS 814.911 Ordonnance du 10 septembre 2008 sur l’utilisation d’organismes dans l’environnement).
Information on outbreaks of infectious diseases and similar occurrences that seem to deviate from the normal pattern in terms of plant diseases and pests that occurred during the reporting period is provided in the form of short descriptions of notifications made by the National Plant Protection Organisation of Switzerland to the EU Commission by means of the EUROPHYT-Outbreak system as follows:
01 | Title: First Presence (confirmed) of Neoleucinodes elegantalis in SWITZERLAND (Canton of Bern) |
02 | Title: First Presence (confirmed) of Lixus juncii in SWITZERLAND (Vaud) |
03 | Title: Update no 4. First Presence (confirmed) of Popillia japonica in SWITZERLAND (Stabio) |
04 | Title: Closing_Update no 3. First Finding (confirmed) of Anoplophora glabripennis in SWITZERLAND (Winterthur) |
05 | Title: First Presence (confirmed) of Rhizoecus hibisci in SWITZERLAND (Nordwestschweiz) |
06 | Title: Presence (confirmed) of Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae in SWITZERLAND (Thurgau) |
07 | Title: Presence (confirmed) of Popillia japonica in SWITZERLAND (Basel-Stadt) |
08 | Title: First Presence (confirmed) of Tomato brown rugose fruit virus in SWITZERLAND (Ostschweiz) |
09 | Title: First Presence (confirmed) of Eotetranychus lewisi in SWITZERLAND (Zürich) |
10 | Title: Presence (confirmed) of Meloidogyne chitwoodi in SWITZERLAND (Bern) |
11 | Title: Presence (confirmed) of Eotetranychus lewisi in SWITZERLAND (Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera) |