The Working Group ICOC is one of 19 Working Groups of the West Palaeartic Regional Section (WPRS) of the International Organisation for Biological and Integrated Control of Noixious Animals and Plants (IOBC).
IOBC/WPRS encourages collaboration in promoting feasible and environmentally safe methods of pest and pathogen control. IOBC/WPRS fosters research and practical application, organises meetings, symposia, offers training and information, especially of biological methods of control, but also of all methods, including chemicals, within an integrated pest management context. Major activities include development and standardisation of testing methods for effects of pesticides on beneficial species, pest and disease damage assessment, modelling in relation to pest and disease management, and the practical implementation of biological and integrated controls for pests and diseases of particular crops.

These 19 working groups are:

• Pesticides and beneficial organisms
• Integrated protection of fruit crops
• Insect pathogens and entomoparasitic nematodes
• Integrated control in oilseed crops
• Pheromones and other semio-chemicals in integrated production
• Integrated control of plant pathogens
• Breeding for plant resistance to pests and diseases
• Integrated control in protected crops, temperate climate
• Integrated control in protected crops, mediterranean climate
• Multitrophic interactions in soil
• Integrated protection of stored products
• Integrated protection of field vegetables
• Integrated protection in viticulture
• Integrated protection in oak forest
• Integrated protection of olive crops
• Integrated protection of citrus crops
• Induced resistance in plants against insects and diseases
• GMO's in integrated plant production
• Landscape management for functional biodiversity