1. IAPPS was established as a non-profit corporation in the State of North Carolina, USA. And it has been approved by the United States Internal Revenue Service (under an advance ruling) as a tax-exempt, publicly supported organization described in Section 501(c)(3).

2. The IAPPS Governing Board has been established comprising 16 voting members and one Ex Officio non-voting member. They are:
   1. Dr. Hans R. Herren, President
      [Director General, ICIPE, Nairobi, Kenya]
   2. Dr. J. Lawrence Apple, Secretary General
      [Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology/Genetics N. C. State University, USA]
   3. Dr. Baruch Rubin, Vice President
      [Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel]
   4. Dr. Yoram Rossler, Past President
      [Cohen Institute for Biol. Control, Israel]
   5. Dr. Pierre Urech, Industry Representative
      [Executive Director, European Crop Protection Assn. Brussels, Belgium]
   6. Dr. Nancy Ragsdale, News Editor
      [ARS/USDA, Beltsville, Md., USA]
   7. Prof. Graham Matthews, Journal Liaison
      [Imperial College at Silkwood, UK]
   8. Dr. Zhou Darong, Rep. From IPPC Host Country
      [President, China Society of Plant Protection, PRC]

3. The eight Regional Network Centers have been sited and the eight Regional Coordinators (also members of the IAPPS Governing Board) have been designated as follows:

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   Region	Host Institution	Coordinator
   Europe -- I	British Crop Protection Council	Dr. Keith Brent
   Africa/MiddleE ast -- II	Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine	Dr. Mohamed Besri
   Sub-Saharan Africa -- III	International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria	Dr. Braima James
   South Asia -- IV	Indian Council of Agricultural Research	Dr. S. Nagarajan
   East/Southeast Asia -- V	Plant Protection Societies of Japan (A Consortium)	Dr. Izuru Yamamoto
   North America VII	Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences, Univ. of Florida	Dr. Waldy Klassen
   South America and the Caribbean -- VIII	International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)	Dr. Anthony Bellotti

4. A contract has been signed with Elsevier Science B. V. (of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) under which the journal Crop Protection is designated as the Official Journal of IAPPS. Access to the electronic edition Crop Protection is included with a basic individual membership in IAPPS, and a subscription to the print edition of the journal is available to individual IAPPS members at a highly discounted rate.

5. The Regional Coordinators are in process of identifying associations/societies in their regions that should be invited to affiliate memberships.

6. The IAPPS Website has been established () and will become an important communications mechanism for plant protection through content and links. A bulletin board and discussion groups have been established for the exchange of information and ideas among members. Affiliate and associate members will be listed (and websites cross linked) along with their representative to the Affiliate Member Advisory Council.

7. Country Representatives in each country within in each region are being recruited by Regional Coordinators and the Secretary General. These individuals will comprise the Regional Councils which will be advisory to the Regional Coordinators in developing regional programs.

8. A Global Pest Surveillance System (GPSS) is being organized utilizing as volunteers the Country Representatives who will report unusual plant pest occurrences ('invasive species' events, unusually intense pest events, etc.) to the Regional Coordinators and to the Secretary General on a timely basis. These reports will be posted in the IAPPS Website as appropriate and included in IAPPS Annual Reports. These observational reports of pest occurrences will be unique and of great assistance to the global plant protection and plant quarantine community.

9. Recruitment of members under the four IAPPS membership classes (individual, affiliate, associate, and corporate) will be intensified through advertising. The recruitment of international individual members had been limited by currency transfer problems; however, that constraint has now been reduced by contracting for a credit card service. This service permits individuals to apply and pay for an individual membership through the IAPPS Website. Memberships by category are now: Individual--146 (of which 37 receive the print edition of Crop Protection); Affiliate--14; and Associate--13.

10. The first "IAPPS White Paper" has been commissioned to Drs. Oerke and Dehne at the University of Bonn (senior authors of Oerke, et al., 1994, Elsevier). This paper addresses the critical need for increased emphasis on global plant protection as a priority option to provide the food/fiber needs for a rapidly growing world population. It will be published in Crop Protection at an early date, and reprints will be distributed widely by IAPPS.

11. The IAPPS Newsletter is published in each issue of the print edition of CROP PROTECTION (up to 4 pages of text) and also posted in the IAPPS Website with cross-links to the Elsevier Science Home Page.

12. A contract has been signed with an individual to provide membership management services for IAPPS. The Membership Management Contractor maintains records and serves as the main contact in providing membership services for IAPPS members in close liaison with the Secretary General.

13. IAPPS is the administrative umbrella organization for the International Plant Protection Congresses (IPPC). The next (15th) IPPC is scheduled for Beijing, China during the period 6-11 July 2003. The Congress Organizing Committee will distribute soon the Second Circular describing the Congress Program. The 15th IPPC is expected to attract 3,000 participants representing all the plant protection disciplines. Current social and scientific issues as well as the latest research innovations and application technologies will be treated in depth at the Congress. Persons seeking additional information should log onto http://www.ipmchina.cn.net/ippc/.

    Submitted by: J. Lawrence Apple, IAPPS Secretary General

PUBLICATION ON PEST RISK ANALYSIS

INTERNATIONAL COURSE ON BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF PLANT PATHOGENS IN APRIL 2002

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
AGADIR, MOROCCO, OCTOBER 7_10 2001

For additional information, please contact:
Prof.Mohamed Besri
Département de Phytopathologie
Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II
B.P. 6202 Rabat_ Instituts
Maroc
Tel: 212 3 7 778364
Fax: 212 3 7 778364 / 778135
E.mail: m.besri@iav.ac.ma

The IAPPS Newsletter is published by the International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences and distributed in Crop Protection to members and other subscribers. Crop Protection, published by Elsevier, is the Official Journal of IAPPS.

IAAPS Mission: to provide a global forum for the purpose of identifying, evaluating, integrating, and promoting plant protection concepts, technologies, and policies that are economically, environmentally, and socially acceptable.

It seeks to provide a global umbrella for the plant protection sciences to facilitate and promote the application of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach to a the world's crop and forest ecosystems.

The IAPPS Newsletter welcomes news, letters, and other items of interest from individuals and organizations. Address correspondence and information to:

Dr. Nancy N. Ragsdale, Editor
IAPPS Newsletter
ARS/USDA
5601 Sunnyside Ave.
Beltsville, MD 20705-5140 USA
E-mail: nnr@ars.usda.gov