1st Meeting of the Resistance Panel on Plant Protection Products
PSD, York, 2006-11-06/07
The Working Party on Plant Protection Products has recognized a need for EPPO to develop and expand its activities on resistance to plant protection products. The ad hoc Panel on Resistance Risk Assessment was reconstituted and became a permanent Resistance Panel on Plant Protection Products with a terms of reference and new tasks to accomplish.
The 1st meeting of the Resistance Panel took place at the Pesticide Safety Directorate in York, on 2006-11-06/07. A brief overview of the resistance regulation in the UK, outlining the British approach to resistance management opened the meeting, followed by several presentations on current resistance issues in the UK. Thanks are due to Mrs Hoy, Mrs Mattock, Mr Richardson and Mr Macdonald for giving these presentations.
The aim of this first meeting was to set some clear goals and priorities for future work. The Panel saw several roles for this new EPPO Panel: as an important forum for the exchange and interpretation of information on resistance, to give warnings where resistance is developing, and to provide a good opportunity to develop effective management strategies and harmonize them where possible. The Panel also recognized the excellent work on resistance produced by various RACs (Resistance Action Committees) and emphasized the importance of avoiding any duplication of work.To obtain an inventory of the resistance expertise in the EPPO region, the Panel drafted the principle outline of the questionnnaire to be filled in by EPPO member countries on-line. The Secretariat will create EPPO webpage dedicated to resistance with the results of questionnaire and all the links possible.
It was decided that, among other things, EPPO should start organizing a series of small ad hoc workshops targeting current specific resistance cases in the EPPO region. The aim of these workshops will be to develop a collaborative approach to resistance management, to share knowledge, to identify gaps in knowledge and research needs, to avoid unnecessary duplication of work (e.g. resistance monitoring efforts) and to develop recommendations on resistance management for EPPO member countries. The pollen beetle, Meligethes spp., has been chosen for the first workshop to be organized in September.
A number of interesting projects are under study and will be developed further at the next meeting, which will take place in Sankt Petersburg (RU) 2007-09-19/21.
PARTICIPANTS
Gottfried Besenhofer (Mr)
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety(AGES), Institute for Plant Protection Products Evaluation and Authorization, Spargelfeldstrasse 191, A-1226 VIENNA (AT) - 43/5055533442 - 43/5055533404 - gottfried.besenhofer@ages.at
Viktor Dolzhenko (Mr)
State Scientific Institution, All Russia Institute for Plant Protection of Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 3 Podbelsky shosse, 196608 St.PETERSBURG-PUSHKIN (RU) - 7/812 476 01 76 - 7/812 470 43 84 - vizrspb@mail333.com
Terézia Dula Bencene (Mrs)
Plant Protection and Soil Conservation Service of Country Heves, Szövetkezet u. 6, 3300 EGER (HU) - 36/ 36 510 955 - 36/ 36 510 970 - dula.bencene@ontsz.hu
Udo Heimbach (Mr)
BBA Institut for Field Crops and Grassland, Messeweg 11/12, 38104 BRAUNSCHWEIG (DE) - 49/5312994510 - 49/5312993008 - U.Heimbach@bba.de
Urs W. Hilber (Mr)
Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil Research Station ACW, 8820 WÄDENSWIL (CH) - 41/ 44 783 62 02 - 41/ 44 783 62 11 - urs.hilber@acw.admin.ch
Nina Svae Johansen (Mrs)
Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, Plant Health and Plant Protection Division, Department of Entomology and Nematology, Hogskoleveien 7, N-1432 AAS (NO) - 47/ 64 94 93 05 - 47/ 64 94 92 26 - nina.johansen@bioforsk.no
Lise Nistrup Jorgensen (Mrs)
Danish Institute of agricultural Science, Research centre, Flakkebjerg, 4200 SLAGELSE (DK) - 45/89993500 - 49/89993501 - lisen.jorgensen@agrsci.dk
Karl-Heinz Kuck (Mr)
BAYER Cropscience, Alfred-Nobel-Str. 50, 40789 MONHEIM (DE) - 49/2173383662 - 49/2173384869 - karl-heinz.kuck@bayercropscience.com
Andy Leadbeater (Mr)
SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG, Schwarzwaldallee 215, CH 4002 BASEL (CH) - 41/613234190 - 41/613236127 - andy.leadbeater@syngenta.com
Oliver Macdonald (Mr)
Pesticides Safety Directorate Mallard House, 3 Peasholme Green, Y01 7PX YORK (GB) - oliver.macdonald@psd.defra.gsi.gov.uk
Alan McCaffery (Mr)
SYNGENTA, Jealotts Hill International Research Station, Bracknell, RG42 6EY BERKSHIRE (GB) - 44/1344414352 - 44/1344413737 - alan.mccaffery@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
Anders Nilsson (Mr)
Swedish Board of Agriculture, Plant Protection Centre, Box 12, SE-230 53 ALNARP (SE) - 46/ 404 152 70 - 46/ 404 607 82 - anders.nilsson@sjv.se
Ton Rotteveel (Mr)
Plant Protection Service, P.O.Box 9102, 6700 HC WAGENINGEN (NL) - 31/317496875 - 31/317421701 - a.j.w.Rotteveel@minlnv.nl
Anne Thompson (Mrs)
Dow AgroSciences, Latchmore Court, Brand Street, Hitchin, SG5 1NH HERTS (GB) - 44/1462426649 - anthompson@dow.com
EPPO
Andrei Orlinski (Mr)
Vlasta Zlof (Mrs)
OEPP/EPPO, 1 rue Le Nôtre, 75016 PARIS (FR) - 33/ 1 45 20 77 94 - 33/ 1 42 24 89 43 - hq@eppo.fr