Benefits

1. Benefits and conditions Group A countries:

- Free, individual membership
- Free access to specific IOBC website information (agenda of biocontrol related meetings, IOBC internet book of Biological Control, IOBC Global and Regional Newsletters, etc.)
- Free access to IOBC Publications on website (e.g. WG Quality Control bulletins, proceedings of WGs)
- Free participation in Writing Partnership (see form IOBC Writing Partnership on website)
- Lowest fee for bulletins of IOBC workshops that you have attended in your Regional Section or of IOBC Global (non-members have to pay about 30 Euro for the bulletin with proceedings of the meeting)
- Lowest registration fee at IOBC meetings (non-members pay an extra fee)
- Reduced subscription fee for IOBC Journal of BioControl (25% of normal price)
- Reduced subscription fee for Biocontrol, Science and Technology
- (To be negociated by Executive Committee IOBC Global: free electronic access to biological control journals via Agora system)

Conditions free membership
- To provide information about the history, current situation and biological control/IPM projects in home country
- To assist in IOBC Biological Control Information Service when questions about home country are asked

2. Benefits Group B countries:

- Reduced fee individual membership
- See under 1, except last point (Agora)
- (To be negotiated by Executive Committee IOBC Global: reduced fee for electronic access to biological control journals via Agora system)

3. Benefits for full fee Group C countries:

- See under 1, except last point (Agora)
- Free bulletins of IOBC workshops that you have attended in your Regional Section or of IOBC Global (non-members have to pay about 30 Euro for the bulletin with proceedings of the meeting)

4. General conditions for free and reduced fee individual membership

- Free and reduced membership is available only for those with the nationality of group A and B countries, respectively. Those, whose income allows for a normal membership are asked not to apply for free or reduced fee membership.

*See file IOBC Country Grouping with group A, B and C countries