20.04.2018
Plant health: Harmonizing global phytosanitary measures, paperless trade 

This week the IGTC attended the IPPC’s annual “Committee on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM)” which brought together 183 governments at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome.

The IGTC was able to signal the grain trade’s ongoing commitment to engagement with the IPPC at the event. Contact was made with a number of governments including the African Union, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, UK, Ukraine and USA.

Critical to the IGTC’s mission to achieve a market and regulatory environment supportive of the international trade of grain, oilseeds, pulses and derived products, there was debate on:

1. The International Standard for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPM) on grain and principles for commodity and pathway standards more generally.
2. The progress of the ePhyto initiative (latest updates here).

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26.03.2018
Call for participation: World Bank Enabling the Business of Agriculture

IGTC members and Corporate Stakeholders have been invited to contribute their knowledge and expertise to the 2019 report of the World Bank Group’s Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project (eba.worldbank.org).

The report will analyze and monitor regulations that impact the functioning of agribusiness and agricultural markets in 82 countries around the world. The resulting EBA data will be a useful tool when advocating for regulatory reforms to enable market access.

Chosen from the private sector, the public sector and civil society, respondents include firms, academia, financial institutions, professional associations, farmer organizations and government ministries and agencies.

If you are a grain trade leader and you wish to be involved, please contact secretariat@igtcglobal.org.