Forest Protection & Forest Health Section

Section responsibilities

• Biotic risks (harmful organisms, incl. plant protection at customs)
• Abiotic risks (incl. storms, forest fires)
• Forest health (incl. nutrient cycles)
• Impacts of climate change on forests

Topic:

Topic Forest and timber

Personnel

Therese Plüss
Position: head of section
Responsibilities: Co-director of the Swiss Federal Plant Protection Service (SPPS)
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Stefan Beyeler
Position: Deputy Section Head
Responsibilities: Forest fires, plant health enforcement strategy
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Sabine Augustin
Responsibilities: Climate change: impacts and action for the forest, pollutant impacts and nutrient balance in the forest, reporting on forest to the Geneva Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Andrea De Boni
Responsibilities: International wood packaging ISPM 15, forest reproductive material
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Aline Knoblauch
Responsibilities: Harmful organisms: insects and nematodes affecting forests, programme objective forest protection
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Joana Meyer
Responsibilities: Harmful organisms: plant pathogens and neophytes affecting forests, forest protection and climate changeaffecting forests
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E-mail: [e-mail]

Michael Sautter
Responsibilities: Storm events, Specialist technical support for forest fire warning systems, management of damage to forests of national significance
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E-mail: [e-mail]

Antonello Speroni
Responsibilities: Issue of import permits for forest reproductive material.Generation of plant health certificates and plant passports.Official follow-up inspections of nurseries. 
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E-Mail: [e-mail]

Miriam Widmer
Responsibilities: Implementation of the Plant Health Ordinance (legal basis, communication, international representation), assistance in enforcing forest protection
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E-mail: [e-mail]

 

Last modification 26.07.2021