The European Association for Research and Experimentation in Tobacco, AERET, is a non-profit making organization, created in Krakow (Poland) on June 19^th, 2007. The main purposes of AERET are to share information concerning leaf tobacco production, to implement common research and experimentation, and to carry out any other action related to leaf tobacco production at the European level. The head office is situated in Bergerac, in the premises of ANITTA. As a result, the organization is answerable to French laws. Currently, sixteen members, from nine European countries, have joined AERET. More admissions are underway. The current areas of work are tobacco crop management (mechanization, irrigation, seedbed…), tobacco cultivars, European research programs on tobacco leaf production, and blue mould. Two working groups are working specifically on Integrated Pest Management: Plant Protection Products: the new EU regulation is expected to increase mutual recognition of PPP registrations between European countries. This regulatory aspect could be of great importance for product registration in the near future. Consequently, the members of AERET are working to gather and to share information on PPP (registered or under trial) to benefit from mutual recognition. Another expected benefit of this work is the identification and the registration of new PPP useful for IPM completion (better specificity, lower residues), comprising biological products.Integrated Pest Management: AERET members exchange information on IPM programs conducted in each European country. On this occasion, the types of traps implemented are discussed and treatment thresholds for each disease or pest monitored are advised. The topic of beneficial insects is also approached within this group. In the future, there might be an opportunity to achieve a monitoring network for tobacco pests and diseases in Europe.