EPPO Global Database

In EPPO RS 96/059, it was explained how the EPPO Secretariat stored information on the geographical distribution of pests in the Russian Federation. At that time six large units had been agreed with the Russian NPPO for reporting purposes: Northern, Central and Southern Russia; Western and Eastern Siberia; Far East. For each of these large regions, the federal administrative units (regions, territories and republics) covered were listed. In the new PQR version, the same system of six large regions has been kept (without any change in their ‘borders’). But because new administrative units have been created since 1996, the EPPO Secretariat considered that it was necessary to update the list of federal units that are covered by each of these six large regions. For practical reasons, many of the Russian names have been simplified to keep geographical distribution lists short, but full names in English are also presented in the table below (last column).