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Evaluation of the Community Plant Health Regime: Final Report
DG SANCO Evaluation Framework Contract Lot 3 (Food Chain)
Case study: Australian Emergency Plant Pest Response Deed (EPPRD)
The most extensively implemented contingency planning programme that includes stakeholders at world level is
the Emergency Plant Pest Response Deed (EPPRD) 293 developed in Australia. The EPPRD is a formal legally
binding agreement between Plant Health Australia, the Australian Government, all state and territory
governments and national plant industry body signatories. It formalises the role of plant industries' participation
in decision making as well as their contribution towards the costs related to Emergency Plant Pests (EPP)
responses. A list of categorized pests (78 high priority pests) are covered under the EPPRD; a mechanism is also
in place to cover EPP not listed but determined by a Categorisation Group to meet the criteria for classification.
It covers the management and funding of responses to Emergency Plant Pest incidents, including the potential
for owner reimbursement costs for growers (only the direct costs incurred by the owner in complying with the
response plan in assisting eradication efforts: therefore loss of crop destroyed, including stored produce, but not
income losses).
In particular, Government and Industry parties share the costs of the Response Plan based on four Emergency
Plant Pest categories. The EPPRD provide that EPP will be categorized based on potential impacts on public
health, environment or amenity values, regional and national economies, trade and market access, and control or
production costs. The four EPP categories determine the cost sharing arrangement between Industry and
Government Parties, as follows:
Category Funding Ratio Summary of category characteristics
Cat.one 100% government Large impact on the environment, human health or amenity flora values and
relatively little impact on commercial crops
Cat.two
Cat.three
Cat.four
80% government
20% industry
50% government
50% industry
20% government
80% industry
Significant impact on amenity flora and/or environmental values and/or
effects on households, or very severe regional and national economic
impacts
Minor adverse impact on public amenities, households or the environment,
and/or moderate trade implications and/or national and regional economic
implications
Primarily affects commercial cropping industries, with minor or no
economic, trade or environmental impacts
Underpinning the EPPRD is PLANTPLAN, the agreed technical response plan used by jurisdictions and
industry in responding to an EPP incident.
It provides nationally consistent guidelines for response procedures under the EPPRD, outlining the phases of an
incursion (investigation, alert, operational and stand down), as well as the key roles and responsibilities of
industry and government during each of these phases. It incorporates best practice in EPP responses is updated
regularly to incorporate new information or address gaps identified by the outcomes of EPP incident reviews.
293 http://www.planthealthaustralia.com.au/go/phau/epprd
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