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16 October  2020 
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
 
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND COOPERATION:  
INFORMATION FROM MEMBERS  
COMMUNICATION FROM BELIZE  
The following communication, received on 13 October  2020, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Belize . 
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1.  The Delegation of Belize would like to report participation of several officers of the Belize 
Agricultural Health Authority in a tutored virtual training on Pest Risk Analysis that took place from 
1 July 2020 and made available until 28 A ugust 2020.  
2.  This online training was organized by the International Regional Organization for Agricultural 
Health (OIRSA) and was tutored by a Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) expert from Mexico who is presently 
the regional Coordinator of OIRSA 's Regional Committ ee for Pest Risk Analysis.  
3.  The course was aimed at personnel assigned to the National PRA Units of the Departments and 
Sub-Departments of Plant Health within the Agricultural Health Services; official personnel of 
Epidemiological Surveillance, Quarantine S ervices; as well as technicians and workers of different 
fields of agricultural productions systems who are agronomists or of related careers, and who have 
experience in the fields of PRA, phytosanitary surveillance, plant health regulation, or plant 
quara ntine.  
4.  The online training consisted of five modules and saw the participation of about 800 professionals 
from the OIRSA region as well as from South America.  
5.  Belize would like to thank OIRSA for organizing the event and for being able to participate in 
such an important and relevant training.  
 
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