31/07/2017 (Agence Europe) – The European Commission’s annual report on the operation of the Europhyt rapid alert system for plant health, published on 19 July and covering the member states of the EU and Switzerland, reveals that the number of interceptions made at the external borders due to the presence of harmful organisms in 2016 was 1,815, a 15% decrease on 2015 and down 25% on 2014. The Commission attributes this fall to a range of measures taken with countries exporting to the...