Plant health section

EDUCATION, TESTING app. equip.

PARS

REGISTERS and RECORDS

PUBLICATIONS

CONFERENCES

PHYTOSANITARY INSPECTION

MAFF

Plant Health Section

Dunajska 22
SI-1000 Ljubljana

Vlasta Knapič, Head of the Section

Tel: +386 5 9152 930

Fax: +386 5 9152 959

e-mail: furs.mkgp@gov.si

Plant health section provides for the continued establishment of an appropriate plant health protection system in the common market of the European Union also after dismantling the frontiers between the Republic of Slovenia and EU Member States, and for the reduction of obstacles to trade by means of implementation of equal standards governing plant health.

Staff: see the list of employees

Vlasta Knapič, Secretary

Mojca Celar, Senior Adviser I

mag. Simona Mavsar, Senior Adviser II

mag. Erika Orešek, Undersecretary

Primož Pajk, Senior Adviser III

Tasks:

The Plant Health Section may provide the information in relation to the:

Establishment of symptoms on plants
Plant passport
PHYTO register
Production of planting, seeds and propagating material
Import of planting or other material of plant origin, which must be issued plant passport
Export of plants, plant products (grains, wood), soil, etc.
Studies of plant pests

Plant health is one of the fields within the phytosanitary section, which covers also the quality of seeds and propagating material of plants, the protection and registration of varieties of plants, plant protection products and pesticide residues. In the broad sense, the phytosanitary field covers the matters concerning the production, processing and trade in plants and plant products, so as to ensure plant, animal, human and environmental health, and provides for equal conditions to be respected in international commercial trade in such goods.

In the Republic of Slovenia, the plant health field is governed by the Plant Health Act [ZZVR-1 (OJ RS, No 45/01, 52/02 - ZDU-1 and 45/04 - ZdZPKG), as amended by ZZVR-1A (OJ RS, No 86/04)]. The act provides inter alia for the protection of plants, plant products and regulated articles against pests, the measures for the prevention of occurrence and the suppression of pests, the plant health control in the common market and the control of consignments upon import, export or in transit, the compensations to holders of plants for destroyed plants, the fees for plant health checks, the authorities responsible for the implementation of the act and for the supervision of the same.

The authority responsible for the implementation of the act is the MAFF-PARS. Administrative, legislative and international matters and the related professional functions are performed by the Plant health section (administrative part). Inspection and the related technical expertise tasks are performed by the Phytosanitary inspection service at the Slovenian Inspectorate for agriculture, forestry and food (inspection part). Expert and technical support to the Plant health section and the phytosanitary inspection are provided by authorised institutions and laboratories (technical part) – see Slovenian planth health organisation.

Protection of forests in terms of the monitoring and strenghtening the biological balance and ensuring the carrying out of measures aiming at preventing and suppressing plant diseases and overpopulated insects, which pose a threat of biological imbalance in forests, is governed by the Forest Act (OJ RS, No 30/93). Protection of forests is performed by the: Forestry Section at the Ministry of agriculture, forestry and food (furtheron as: „MAFF“), public forestry service and forestry inspection within the Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia for agriculture, forestry, hunting and fisheries (furtheron as: „IRSAFF“), which is the body within the MAFF.

Plant health in Slovenia is governed by the Plant health act and 35 detailed implementing regulations, governing certain provisions of sector-specific instruments, and international agreements and conventions from the field concerned, adopted by the Republic of Slovenia (International Plant Protection Convention - IPPC), Convention for the Establishment of the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organisation (EPPO), WTO Agreement on the application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS).

SLO catalogue of varieties 2011

EU Common catalogue of varieties

OECD - varieties

ISTA

CPVO