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ECPA-IBMA workshop with EFSA 26th April 2012, Parma Italy

Activities on Environmental fate

Pesticide Unit Mark Egsmose

Outline

• Soil degradation rate GD • Exposure in soil (PECsoil) GD • Protected crops GD

• FOCUS ground water opinions

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Soil degradation and exposure GD

• Revision of the GD on persistence in soil Requested to be revised based on MS consultation through the SCFCAH

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Soil degradation rate GD

• Opinion for estimating DegT50 in soil (published)

• Stakeholder consultation report (published) • GD on DegT50 (cookbook) (Foreseen for 2013

depending on mandate from the Commission)

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Soil exposure GD

• Opinion on estimating PECs in soil for annual crops (published)

• Grant on revision of crop interception values for FOCUS crops (Foreseen for May 2013)

• Tender for software tools in support of PECs in soil GD launched. Closing date 18 June 2012

• GD on PECs in soil (cookbook) (Foreseen for 2014) • Depending on timing for arrival of mandate from the

Commission • Related to availability of software tools

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Soil exposure GD

Background reports

– Two JRC reports on soil weather data (SLA) (published) – EFSA report on scenario selection (published) – External report on validation of the guidance (published) – External report on crop methodology for estimating interception

factors for cereals (published) – EFSA report on scenario parameterization (published)

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Protected crops GD

• Development of a new GD on

emissions from protected crop systems Request for guidance based on MS consultation through the SCFCAH

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Protected crops GD

• Stakeholder report on project plan and Opinion on clustering and ranking

(published) • PROTEA stakeholder workshop

(published) • Outline Opinion on guidance for emissions from protected crops

(published) • Opinion on clustering and ranking of

emissions (published)

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Protected crops GD

• Supporting documents on data-collection – For EU East and South (published) – For EU North(published) – Second data-collection Central zone (published) – Second data-collection Southern zone (published) – Data-base on protected crop systems (Available – may be published)

• Supporting documents on emissions – Two external reports on methodology for estimating emissions from

protected crops (published) – External report on ranking/estimating emissions from protected crop

systems (published)

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Protected crops GD

• Preparation of EFSA GD based on Opinion on clustering and ranking of emissions from protected crops – GD (cookbook) (Foreseen for 2013 depending on

mandate from the Commission)

FOCUS Groundwater Opinions

FOCUS Groundwater report (2009) (SANCO/321/2000 rev 2)

• Working document for use released on: http://focus.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

• Mandate for two Opinions on the FOCUS report received from Commission

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FOCUS GW Opinion A (Lower tiers)

• For Opinion A it is requested whether: • the recommendations are consistent with the state of the art of

science in this field for the elementary (tier 1) assessment; • the proposed procedures for elementary assessments are

scientifically robust enough for the intended use; • the proposed changes in elementary assessment scenarios and

model parameterisations for elementary assessment are adequate; • the shells and tools that have been released via the agreed version

control procedure deliver the intended elementary assessment.

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FOCUS GW Opinion B (Higher tiers)

• For Opinion B it is requested whether: • the recommendations are consistent with the state of the art of

science in this field for the tiered approaches and higher tier assessments;

• the proposed procedures for including higher tier experimental results in the assessment procedure are scientifically robust and consistent with a tiered approach;

• the report is presented in a way that facilitates communication of the methodology for exposure assessment of groundwater;

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Timing

• Opinion A on lower tier assessment foreseen for adoption in February 2013

• Opinion B on higher tier assessment foreseen

for adoption in June 2013

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Location of EFSA science

Published scientific documents from EFSA available on:

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/publications.htm

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Thank you