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Members' Update 19/09
Dear members,
In this Update:
- IAS LEGISLATION USA
- BILINGUAL SPANISH-ENGLISH EU CERTIFICATE
- IMPORT HEALTHSTANDARDS NEW ZEALAND
- OFI DINNER ON SATURDAY 30 MAY
- FISH HEALTH SEMINAR
- OFI ACTIVITIES DURING AQUARAMA
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IAS LEGISLATION USA
In Members' Update 13/09 we informed you about the United States House subcommittee hearing on a draft act on Invasive Alien Species in the USA. This hearing took place on 23 April. According to Marshall Meyers of PIJAC USA the act is "heavily injured as a result of the hearing but not dead". It is now an open question what will happen. The act is too controversial to be sent to the relevant committee without many amendments, but it could also happen that the whole process of development of dedicated legislation will start over again.
Marshall Meyers is one of the speakers in the OFI Conference on Invasive Alien Speakers on 30 May in Singapore. If you want to ask him for more details on this process in the USA, this is the place to be. Register now!
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BILINGUAL SPANISH-ENGLISH EU CERTIFICAT
Our colleagues of AEDPAC in Spain have developed a bilingual EU health certificate Spanish English. This documents is now included in the Documents Archive in the OFI website.
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IMPORT HEALTH STANDARDS NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand is currently developing new import health legislation for ornamental aquatic animals. The draft (can be downloaded here), provides a long list of species eligible for imports, which does NOT include koi and goldfish! Comments to the draft can be sent to MAF New Zealand until 5 June 2009 , to richard.soons@maf.govt.nz.
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OFI DINNER ON SATURDAY 30 MAY
In the past two Aquarama's OFI organized a dinner that took place immediately after the Annual General Meeting. This year it will be different. The OFI dinner will take place after the OFI Conference on Invasive Alien Species on Saturday 30 May at 18:15-21:00 at Suntec Singapore, Blue Pacific Lounge.
Access is open to all participants in the OFI IAS Conference and to all OFI members. Access for OFI members is free for two persons per membership. If you want to come with more persons, please contribute 50 S$ per additional person.
To be able to estimate the number of participants and to organize access tickets, we require you to please register for the dinner by sending an email to the Secretariat or sign up at the latest on Thursday 28th at the OFI booth 810.
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FISH HEALTH SEMINAR
The OFI Fish Health Seminar takes place on Friday 29 May at 16:00 in room 307 of Suntec Singapore. During this event the new OFI Book on Biosecurity will be launched and introduced by Shane Willis (Aquarium Industries, Australia). Kris Willems will give an update on the results of the DNA Multiscan project.
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OFI ACTIVITIES DURING AQUARAMA
Thursday 28 May: 9:00-10:00: Official opening of Aquarama, including presentation of OFI-Award.
Friday 29 May, 16:00-17:00: OFI Fish Health Seminar on Biosecurity.
Friday 29 May 17:30-19:30: OFI Annual General Meeting 2009.
Saturday 30 May, 9:00- 17:15: OFI conference on Invasive Alien Species (Register now!)
Saturday 30 May, 18:15-21:00: OFI Conference dinner, OFI members are welcome.
Sunday 31 May, 12:00-13:15: Meeting of the Board of Advisors
Sunday 31 May, 13:15-14:15: Meeting of the Executive Board
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With kind regards,
Alex Ploeg
OFI Secretary General
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