Ad hoc Panel on Resistance Risk Assessment
Basel, CH, 2006-02-02/03
The 8th meeting of the Ad hoc Panel on Resistance Risk Assessment was organized in response to recommendations made by the Working Party on Plant Protection Products (Skopje, 2005) and by the Workshop on the Interpretation and Use of the EPPO Standard on Resistance Risk Analysis (Bologna, IT, 2004). The aim was to decide whether there is a need to create a permanent EPPO Panel on Resistance and what its tasks would be.
The meeting took place at the Syngenta site in Basel and thanks are due to Mr Leadbeater for hosting the meeting and for making all the local arrangements. Thanks are also due to him and his colleagues for organizing a very interesting and informative visit to Syngenta’s research facilities in Stein.
The following important topics were addressed: work of Resistance Action Committees, role of national or regional expert resistance action groups, databases on resistance, role of EPPO in collecting and disseminating information on the management of resistance and in agreeing regional resistance management strategies, possibilities for issuing more advisory information on the presentation and use of sensitivity data, susceptibility test methods. The ad hoc Panel determined that there was a need for EPPO to be actively involved in resistance issues and recommended the creation of a permanent EPPO Panel on Resistance to Plant Protection Products. Terms of reference of the future Panel were drafted and its tasks defined. The creation of a new Panel and its terms of reference need to be approved by the Working Party on Plant Protection Products, Executive Committee and Council.
Participants
Udo Heimbach (Mr)
BBA Institut für Pflanzenszchutz in Ackerbau und Grünland, Messeweg 11/12, BRAUNSCHWEIG (DE) - 49/5312994510 - 49/5312993008 - U.Heimbach@bba.de
Andy LEADBEATER (Mr)
SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG, Schwarzwaldallee 215, 4058 BASEL (CH) - 41/ 61 3234190 – 41/ 61 3236127 – andy.leadbeater@syngenta.com
Annie Micoud (Mrs)
Service Régional de la Protection des Végétaux, 165 rue de Garibaldi, B.P. 3202, 69401 LYON (FR) - 33/ 4 78 63 13 78 - 33/ 4 78 63 34 29 - Annie.Micoud@agriculture.gouv.fr
Oliver Macdonald (Mr)
Pesticides Safety Directorate Mallard House, 3, Peasholme Green , Y01 7PX YORK (GB) - 44/ 1904 455864 - 44/ 1904 455711 - oliver.macdonald@psd.defra.gsi.gov.uk
Colin Mills (Mr)
SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG, Schwarzwaldallee 215, 4058 BASEL (CH) - colin.mills@syngenta.com
Ton Rotteveel (Mr)
Plant Protection Service, PO Box 9102, 6700 HC WAGENINGEN (NL) - 31/ 317 496875 - 31/ 317 421701 - a.j.w.rotteveel@minlnv.nl
Antony Straszewski (Mr)
DowAgroSciences, 2nd Floor, 3 Milton Park, Abingdon , OX14 4RN OXFORDSHIRE (GB) - 44/ 1235 437944 - 44/ 1235 437998 - astraszewski@dow.com
Vlasta Zlof ( Mrs) (chairman)
OEPP/EPPO, 1 rue Le Nôtre, 75016 PARIS (FR) - 33/ 1 45 20 77 94 - 33/ 1 42 24 89 43 - hq@eppo.fr