They have formed the subject of international agreements and international conventions, including the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) of 6 December 1951 concluded at the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and its new revised text approved by the Food and Agriculture Organisation Conference in November 1997 at its 29th session as well as the International Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) of 29 December 1993 .

They have formed the subject of international agreements and international conventions, including the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) of 6 December 1951 concluded at the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and its new revised text approved by the Food and Agriculture Organisation Conference in November 1997 at its 29th session.

The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 98, amending Section 1 of Annex IV on measures to manage the risks of quarantine pests, as regards the measures targeting prevention and elimination of infestation of cultivated and wild plants, measures targeting consignments of plants, plant products and other objects, measures targeting other pathways for quarantine pests, and amending Section 2 of that Annex on principles for the management of the risks of pests, as regards principles for the management of the risks of pests, taking into account the developments of technical and scientific knowledge as well as International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs), agreed under the ...[+++]International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) .

The Seventh Review Conference encouraged the States Parties, in the context of Article X of the BTWC, to continue strengthening existing international organisations and networks, in particular those of the WHO, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC).

Reference to international health and plant health standards and disciplines, in particular those laid down by the Codex Alimentarius, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC);

10. Reaffirms the important role to be played by the Codex alimentarius, the International Plant Protection Convention ( IPPC ) and the International Office of Epizootics (OIE) in providing effective, science-based, internationally-accepted standards of food safety, plant and animal health, as well as to facilitate international food and agricultural trade in accordance with their roles in the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures;