Panel on General Standards on Efficacy Evaluation
Paris, 2008-03-06/07

The 8th meeting of the Panel on General Standards on Efficacy Evaluation took place at EPPO Headquarters, in Paris, on 2008-03-06/07. The emphasis was put on finalizing the extrapolation tables for effectiveness and crop safety of insecticides, fungicides and herbicides for vegetable brassicas and pome/stone fruit. To better understand these tables, an internal guidance document on the format and content of tables for extrapolation was prepared. This document is also to be consulted when new tables are drafted. A document listing all crops that should be encompassed by the tables for vegetable brassicas and pome/stone fruit was also developed. It should complement the tables. The extrapolation tables were considered as the best available tables at this point in time and as such they will be sent to countries for comments.

The Panel was informed about the research done so far regarding the project of drafting a standard on “comparable climates on a global level”.  Regarding the development of a standard on the subject of mutual recognition, the Panel will wait for the outcome of an EU working group dealing with the problem of mutual recognition and drafting a guidance document. A long discussion about the impact of draft EU legislation concerning plant protection products took place. The focus of the debate surrounded the modification of the Directive 91/414 to accommodate comparative assessment and the use of hazard based cut-off criteria as proposed by the EU Parliament, which may affect the range and diversity of plant protection products needed for a sustainable crop protection and effective resistance management. The Panel supported in general the views expressed by the Resistance Action Committees in a document presented at the meeting (about chemical diversity being a crucial element in effective resistance management), but recalled that it would need further study by the EPPO Resistance Panel and the Working Party on Plant Protection Products. 
The next meeting of the Panel on General Standards will take place in 2009-03-12/13, in Vienna at the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), at the kind invitation of Mr Kurtz.

Participants

       
Bouma Erno (Mr)
Ministry of Agriculture, Plant Protection Service, P.O.Box 9102, 6700 HC WAGENINGEN (NL) - 31/317496879 - 31/317421701 - e.bouma@minlnv.nl

Ciampitti Mariangela (Mrs) 
Servizio fitosanitario regionale, Via Pola, 12-14, 20124 MILANO (IT) - 39-0267658006 - 39-0267658019 - mariangela_ciampitti@regione.lombardia.it

Cors François (Mr)
Département de Phytopharmacie, rue du Bordia, 11, 5030 GEMBLOUX (BE) - 32/81625262 - 32/81625272 - cors@cra.wallonie.be

Del Corro Miguel (Mr)
Departamento de Protecion Vegetal, Inst. Nac. De Investigacion y Tecn. Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Ctra de la Coruna, Km. 7, 28040 MADRID (ES) - 91/3478710 - 91/3471479 - miguel.corro@inia.es

Heimbach Udo (Mr)
BBA Institut for Field Crops and Grassland, Messeweg 11/12, 38104 BRAUNSCHWEIG (DE) - 49/5312994510 - 49/5312993008 - udo.heimbach@jki.bund.de

Kudsk Per (Mr)
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences,  Dept. of Integrated Pest Management - University of Aarhus, Forsogsvej 1, Flakkebjerg, 4200 SLAGELSE (DK) - 45-89993500 - 45-89993501 - per.kudsk@agrsci.dk

Kurtz Edmund (Mr)
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Spargelfeldstrasse 191, 1226 VIENNA (AT) - 43/5055533441 - 43/5055533404 - edmund.kurtz@ages.at

Leadbeater Andy (Mr)
SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG, Schwarzwaldallee 215, CH 4002 BASEL (CH) - 41/613234190 - 41/613236127 - andy.leadbeater@syngenta.com

Malet Jean-Claude (Mr)
DGAL / SDQPV SRPV PACA, B.P. 95, 84143 MONTFAVET (FR) - 33/490811128 - 33/490811129 - jean-claude.malet@agriculture.gouv.fr
           
Richardson David (Mr)
Pesticides Safety Directorate, Room 126, Mallard House, Kings Pool 3, Peasholme Green, YO1 7PX YORK (UK) - 44/1904455869 - 44/1904455722 - david.richardson@psd.defra.gsi.gov.uk

Shaprut Ethel (Ms)
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Plant Protection and Inspection Services, P.O. Box 78, 50250 BET-DAGAN (IL) - 972-3-96881500 - 972-3-9681507 - ethels@moag.gov.il

van Opstal Nico (Mr)
Zlof Vlasta (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

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