Behaviour of Pesticides in Air, Soil and Water

For many years now, this conference has been a major event in the plant protection industry. Listen to the various viewpoints represented by the authorities, the industry, and the research sector. This event is of interest to anyone involved in the assessment of pesticides in air, soil and water.

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27.06. — 28.06.2023
Novotel Düsseldorf City West
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Overview

About the 25th AGRO Conference:

Plant protection products (PPP) are strictly regulated within the European Union. The risk management and environmental assessment of PPPs, essential to produce compliant products, poses challenges across the entire plant protection industry.

The conference brings together representatives from regulatory and industry backgrounds, as well as political decision-makers to discuss the latest regulatory developments. It keeps track of scientific progress, advances in environmental fate and exposure as well as recent developments in risk assessment and risk mitigation.

Highlights

Regulatory issues

  • Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 update and ongoing activities
  • A feedback from France on risk assessment in the Southern zone
  • Harmonisation in the Central zone and interzonal developments
  • News from the Northern zone view, recent results from the Danish monitoring programme PLAP
  • Update on new hazard classes: PMT/vPvM substances

Environmental fate

  • Long-range atmospheric transport of pesticides over Europe – a snapshot
  • Persistence and mobility (defined as organic-carbon partitioning) do not correlate to the detection of substances found in surface and groundwater: Criticism of the regulatory concept of persistent and mobile substances
  • Use of EFSA’s aged sorption guidance, experience from applicants
  • Field leaching study-inverse estimation of degradation and sorption parameters for a mobile soil metabolite and its pesticide parent

Exposure, risk assessment and risk mitigation

  • Update on latest developments from Brazil on surface water assessment
  • Higher-tier leaching assessment of groundwater in Europe (EFSA and SETAC SDLM)
  • Management of runoff
  • Stewardship tools in the market and in development, including industry examples

Who should attend this conference?

Professionals working in the fields of:

  • Environmental behaviour
  • Field inspection
  • Research & development
  • Legal & regulatory affairs
  • Registration
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Exposure & risk assessment
  • Monitoring & computer modelling

Sectors taking part:

  • Agrochemical industry
  • Research institutes from the area of agriculture, soil, hydrology and air
  • Authorities (agricultural inspection offices, registration and control authorities)
  • Water supply enterprises
  • Professional associations

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Would you instead prefer to follow this conference digitally via our Live Stream? Then you can find further information here!

 

Programme

Tuesday, 27 June 2023

Timings are in Central European Summer Time CEST.



Morning Session | 9:30 – 13:35
9:00
On-site registration & opening of the virtual meeting room
9:30
Welcome address by the organisers and the Chairs

Colin Brown, University of York, UK
Dieter Schäfer, Bayer Crop Science Division, Germany
Harry Vereecken, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

Regulatory issues
9:40
Feedback from France on risk assessment in the Southern zone

Emilie Farama, Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES), France

10:15
Harmonisation in the Central zone and interzonal developments

Joachim Dayteg, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Austria

10:50
Update on the latest report from the Danish monitoring program PLAP (2023)

Leaching of metabolites DMS and DMSA from cyazofamid to groundwater – Are we overlooking metabolites in active substance evaluations?

Nicolas Givaudan, Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA), Denmark

11:25
Coffee break
11:50
GB adoption of EFSA guidance on stereoisomers

James Hingston, HSE Chemicals Regulation Division (CRD), UK

12:25
Update on new hazard classes: PMT/vPvM (persistent, mobile and toxic and very persistent and very mobile) substances

Bernhard Jene, BASF, Germany

13:00
Lunch break


Afternoon Session | 14:30 – 17:20
Exposure, risk assessment and risk mitigation
14:30
Update on latest developments and results from Brazil on surface water assessment

Rômulo Penna Scorza Júnior, Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation), Brazil (virtual presentation)

Environmental fate
15:05
Long-range atmospheric transport of pesticides over Europe – a snapshot
  • The fate of pesticides in the atmosphere
  • The PESPAT (Pan European Study of Pesticides long-range Atmospheric Transport) project
  • Highlights from this study – identification of new pesticides prone to long-range atmospheric transport

Ludovic Mayer, RECETOX, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

15:40
Coffee break
16:10
Pesticide risk assessment in Canada – update on the National Water Monitoring Programme for Pesticides

Alice Dove, Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), Health Canada, Canada (virtual presentation)

16:45
Stewardship tools in the market and in development, including industry examples

Volker Laabs, BASF, Germany

17:20
End of the first conference day
18:30
Joint evening event

After the first conference day you are most welcome to attend our evening event for an unhurried evening of good food and leisure time. Please join us to continue the day’s interesting discussions in a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere.



Wednesday, 28 June 2023

Timings are in Central European Summer Time CEST.



Morning Session | 8:40 – 11:30
8:40
Brief welcome by the chairs
Environmental fate
8:50
Use of EFSA’s aged sorption guidance, experience from applicants
  • Evidence for the relevance of aged-sorption under field conditions
  • Planned revision of the Guidance Document to include the combination of field DegT50eq with laboratory aged-sorption parameters

Ian Hardy, Battelle, UK

9:25
Field leaching study-inverse estimation of degradation and sorption parameters for a mobile soil metabolite and its pesticide parent

Robin Sur, Bayer Crop Science Division, Germany

10:00
Coffee break
Regulatory issues
10:30
Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 update and ongoing activities

Mark Williams, European Commission, Belgium

11:30
Lunch break


Afternoon Session | 12:30 – 14:20
Exposure, risk assessment and risk mitigation
12:30
Higher-tier leaching assessment of groundwater in Europe (presentation on the two working groups)
  • EFSA on the higher-tier groundwater modelling studies
  • Update on the SETAC SDLM working group as an initiative to develop a harmonised framework for spatially distributed leaching modelling of pesticides

Aaldrik Tiktak, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, the Netherlands

13:05
Persistence and mobility (defined as organic-carbon partitioning) do not correlate to the detection of substances in surface and groundwater

Critical review of the PMT regulatory concept

Nathalie Vallotton, Dow Europe, Switzerland

13:40
Management of run-off

Balthasar Smith, German Federal Institute of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL), Germany

14:20
End of the conference

Speakers

Name

Company

Brown

Colin Brown

University of York, UK

Colin Brown is a Professor in Environmental Science at the University of York/UK. He has more than 20 years experience of research into the fate and effects of organic contaminants in the environment.

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Dayteg

Joachim Dayteg

Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Austria

Joachim Dayteg joined the Institute for Plant Protection Products of AGES Vienna in 2008 as an Environmental Fate and Behaviour Risk Assessor. He is the initiator of the harmonisation efforts in fate and behaviour in the Central zone.

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Dove

Alice Dove

Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), Health Canada, Canada

Alice Dove has been working with the Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency in the Environmental Assessment Directorate since 2022 and she has over 20 years of experience working in water quality monitoring for the Canadian federal government. She will discuss Health Canada’s new, national water monitoring program for pesticides, for which extensive engagement has been conducted with stakeholders, and the two year Pilot Program to sample and analyze currently used pesticides at sites across Canada.

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Farama

Emilie Farama

ANSES - French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, France

Emilie Farama has been the Deputy Head of the Ecotoxicology and E-Fate Risk Assessment Unit for Pesticides and Fertilisers at ANSES since 2018. She joined ANSES in 2006 as an Environmental Fate and Behaviour Risk Assessor for active substances and plant protection products.

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Givaudan

Nicolas Givaudan

Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA), Denmark

Nicolas Givaudan has a background as Agronomist and Ecotoxicologist and has worked as an Environmental Risk Assessor at the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA) for over 5 years. His emphasis is on environmental fate and behavior and ecotoxicology of pesticides.

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Hardy

Ian Hardy

Battelle, UK

Ian Hardy has worked as a Research Leader at Battelle UK for 21 years. His emphasis is on degradation kinetics, environmental exposure and risk assessment.

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Hingston

James Hingston

HSE Chemicals Regulation Division (CRD), UK

James Hingston leads a team of 26 regulatory environmental fate specialists at the Chemicals Regulation Division, part of the UK Health and Safety Executive. CRD is the national regulator for the whole of the UK, on behalf of the UK government and the devolved administrations, with responsibility for pesticides, biocides, detergents and general chemicals under REACH.

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Jene

Bernhard Jene

BASF, Germany

Bernhard Jene is an Environmental Scientist at BASF in Limburgerhof with a PhD in soil physics. He has more than 20 years of experience in the area of environmental fate and exposure modelling of pesticides.

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Laabs

Volker Laabs

BASF, Germany

Volker Laabs has been with BASF for 9 years and is currently leading the Global Product Stewardship Team. He has more than 15 years experience in the area of environmental fate of pesticides.

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Mayer

Ludovic Mayer

RECETOX, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Ludovic Mayer has been a PhD Student in Environment and Health at RECETOX (Masaryk University) in Brno, Czech Republic, since 2020. His PhD focuses on the atmospheric fate of currently used pesticides in the atmosphere, for which he is involved in multiples project and collaborations, most notably as the principal contributor of the PESPAT project. His other research are focusing on investigating and improving the current knowledge of atmospheric pesticides processes such as depositions, gas-particle partitioning and air-soil exchange.

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Schäfer

Dieter Schäfer

Bayer Crop Science Division, Germany

Dieter Schäfer has a professional background in environmental sciences and 25 years of experience in the environmental fate and exposure assessment of pesticides. He was the Head of the E-fate Expert Group and the Environmental Exposure Modelling Team at Bayer Crop Science Division in Monheim/Germany and is currently the Head of Environmental Exposure leading a team of experimental, modelling and assessment experts.

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Scorza Júnior

Rômulo Penna Scorza Júnior

Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation), Brazil

Rômulo Penna Scorza Júnior is a senior researcher for 20 years at Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation) and has worked on pesticide fate and exposure modelling in Brazilian agricultural scenarios.

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Smith

Balthasar Smith

German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL), Germany

Balthasar Smith is working as an executive officer in the Department Plant Protection Products of the German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) since 2004. His tasks include risk management of fungicides within the authorisation procedures of plant protection products, but also the development of new risk mitigation measures and improvement of organisational processes.

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Robin Sur

Bayer Crop Science Division, Germany

Robin Sur is a Distinguished Science Fellow at Bayer Crop Science Division. He has been working for 23 years in the crop protection industry, e.g. as a Head of Laboratory, Environmental Modelling Expert, Global Lead Expert Water Quality, and currently Risk Mitigation Strategy Lead.

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Tiktak

Aaldrik Tiktak

PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Netherlands

Aaldrik Tiktak is working as a Senior Researcher Soil and Water at the Netherlands PBL Environmental Assessment Agency in Bilthoven and is member of the EFSA PPR Panel. He is involved in policy evaluation and environmental risk assessment of pesticides.

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Vallotton

Nathalie Vallotton

Dow Europe, Switzerland

Nathalie Vallotton is a Global Regulatory Environmental Science Manager at Dow Europe. She is member of the ECETOC task force on “Persistent chemicals and water resources protection” and is a member of the Cefic Persistence Issue Team.

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Vereecken

Harry Vereecken

Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

Harry Vereecken is a Professor and the Director of the Institute Agrosphere within the Department of Bio- and Geosciences at the Forschungszentrum Jülich.

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Williams

Mark Williams

European Commission, Belgium

Mark Williams has a background in biochemistry and biomedicine and is a Policy Officer in the Pesticides and Biocides Unit at DG SANTE. Mark is working primarily on the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, focused on topics related to the approval of active substances and the decision making process for new substances, renewal of approval and confirmatory information. In addition, Mark works on the development of new legislation and guidance, including most recently the new implementing rules for renewal of approval and the guidance on emergency authorisations. He is also involved in various activities related to groundwater and drinking water. Before joining the Commission in 2015 he worked at the Health and Safety Executive in the UK.

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Venue

Novotel Düsseldorf City West
Niederkasseler Lohweg 179
40547 Düsseldorf
Phone : +49 211 52060-0
Email: h3279@accor.com
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We have reserved a limited number of rooms for our participants at reduced rates at the hotel. These rooms can be booked up to 6 weeks prior to the start of the event. Please book early and directly through the hotel quoting „Akademie Fresenius“ as reference.

Prices & Services

Participation Fee: € 1,995.00 plus VAT.

The registration fee includes the following benefits:

  • Event participation
  • Event documentation
  • Lunch
  • Coffee breaks and event beverages
  • The evening event on the first day
  • Certificate of attendance

Representatives of an authority or a public university are therefore eligible for a reduced fee of € 895.00 plus VAT per person (please provide evidence). The reduced fee cannot be combined with other rebates.

Group Reductions
For joint bookings received from one company we grant a 15% discount from the third participant onwards.

Terms of Cancellation / Book without Risk
Written cancellations or transfers will be accepted free of charge up to four weeks prior to the start of the event. After this date and up to a week prior to the start of the event we will reimburse 50% of the registration fee. We cannot, unfortunately, provide refunds for later cancellations. However, in this case we will provide you with the event documentation after the event.
Please note that you can name a substitute free of charge at any time.

Sabine Mummenbrauer

Your Contact

Sabine Mummenbrauer
Programme and conceptual design

+49 231 75896-82
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Sabine Mummenbrauer

Your Contact

Sabine Mummenbrauer
Programme and conceptual design

+49 231 75896-82
smummenbrauer@akademie-fresenius.de

Sabine Mummenbrauer

Your Contact

Sabine Mummenbrauer
Programme and conceptual design

+49 231 75896-82
smummenbrauer@akademie-fresenius.de

Danielle Sörries

Your Contact

Danielle Sörries
Organisation and participant management

+49 231 75896-74
dsoerries@akademie-fresenius.de

Danielle Sörries

Your Contact

Danielle Sörries
Organisation and participant management

+49 231 75896-74
dsoerries@akademie-fresenius.de

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Monika Stratmann
Phone: +49 231 75896-48
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