Behaviour of Pesticides in Air, Soil and Water K a D E

DIE AKADEMIE FRESENIUS

8th AGRO Conference: fate, exposure and regulatory issues Behaviour of Pesticides in Air, Soil and Water k a d e

A m Visit us at www.akademie-fresenius.de i e for m ore 21 to 22 June 2006 tha n 10 yea F rs Frankfurt-Mörfelden/ r e s Germany e n i u s Highlights:

• Revision of Council 91/414/EEC • Thematic Strategy on Sustainable Use of Pesticides • Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection • River basin management strategies • Zonal approach to fate and exposure assessment • Role of lysimeter studies • Modelling the fate and behaviour of Speakers: pesticides David Arnold Cambridge Envrionmental Assessments • • Non-agricultural uses of herbicides Renate Becker-Arnold BASF • Csaba Szentes Plant • GIS assessments in FOCUS ground Protection and Soil Conservation Service • Anne-Cécile water Cotillon European Commission • Andrew Craven (formerly) • Probabilistic approaches to aquatic Pesticides Safety Directorate • Herman Fontier Federal exposure assessment Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment • Peter Heininger Federal Institute of Hydrology • John • GeoPERA – a new German approach Hollis National Soil Resources Institute • Chris Holmes • Surface water as drinking water – Waterborne Environmental • Andreas Huber DuPont de new FOCUS Group Nemours • Christopher Leake Bayer CropScience • Mark • National approaches, e.g. view from Montforts RIVM • Michael Neumann Federal Hungary, Spain, The Netherlands, Environmental Agency • Stephen Nortcliff University of France Reading • Brigitte Remy INRA • Carine Saison INRA-IRD • Juliane Scharf BASF • Andreas Stork Bayer CropScience uthorities, d fee for a Reduce n and • Matthias Trapp RLP AgroScience • Joop Vegter (for- er educatio public furth merly) Technical Soil Protection Committee • Harry stitutes research in Vereecken Forschungszentrum Jülich • and others Thursday, 22 June 2006

8.30 Introduction by the chairman, 10.50 Using spatial approaches to examine 12.10 Panel discussion natural variation in the agricultural Harry Vereecken 13.00 Lunch landscape for aquatic exposure assessment Advances in exposure/risk assessment – 8.40 Modelling the fate and behaviour of • Spatial relationships between cropped areas post annex 1 – national approaches pesticides applied to Hard Surfaces - and surfacewater The HardSPEC model • Generating landscape-level distributions for 14.15 Development of French scenarios to • Experimental background to the model: un- selected end-points or probabilistic inputs assess the risk of groundwater con- derstanding the factors affecting fate on • Placing detailed site information into a tamination by pesticides used on an- hard surfaces broader context of regional, national or nual crops (a first approach) • Scenario development for regulatory pur- European exposure potential poses: developing realistic worst-cases Brigitte Remy, Environmental Fate and • Key dissipation processes taken into Chris Holmes, Manager, Spatial Technologies Behaviour and Risk Assessment of Pesticides, account in the model: knows and unknows Group, Waterborne Environmental Inc., Unit of Scientific Support for the Assessment Leesburg/USA John Hollis, Principal Research Scientist, Soil of Pesticides Risks (INRA), Versailles/France Systems Group, National Soil Resources Institute (NSRI), Cranfield University, Silsoe/UK 11.10 Probabilistic exposure and risk as- 14.35 Attempts and limits in scenario de- sessment with GIS – geoPERA -, a velopment - view from Hungary new German approach in the frame- 9.10 Non-agricultural uses of herbicides – work of the authorisation of Csaba Szentes, Ecotoxicological Laboratory, fate and exposure issues for soil, pesticides Plant Protection and Soil Conservation Service, surfacewater and groundwater Fácánkert/Hungary • Georeferenced Probabilistic Exposure and Thomas Pütz, Scenior Scientist, Agrosphere Risk Assessment using GIS Institute, ICG, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH • Digital landscape analysis based on the 14.55 Exposure assessments under Germany classification of very high resolution geodata Mediterranean agro-environmental like orthoimages and satellite images conditions • Calculation of georeferenced realistic PECsw 9.40 Panel discussion Elena Alonso-Prados, Environmental in representative regions Technologist, Spanish National Institute for 10.00 Coffee break Matthias Trapp, Head of Working Group Agriculture and Food Research and Technology Environmental Information Systems, Institute (INIA), Madrid/Spain Chairman: for AgroEcology, RLP AgroScience GmbH, Christopher Leake, Global Product Safety Neustadt/Germany 15.15 Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection Manager, Bayer CropScience AG, Monheim/Germany Stephen Nortcliff, Head of Department of Soil 11.30 Surfacewater as drinking water – Sience, University of Reading/UK new FOCUS Group Advances in exposure/risk assessment – landscape exposure assessments for • Possible approaches to take into account the 15.35 Panel discussion ground and surfacewater drinking water criterion in the registration process of plant protection products under 16.05 Summary of the second conference 10.30 A method to derive crop specific Directive 91/414 in the EU day leaching scenarios – GIS assess- • Possible approaches to protect surface- Approx. 16.15 End of the conference ments in FOCUS Groundwater waters intended for the abstraction of drin- • Role of GIS assessments in the tiered king water decision tree of FOCUS Groundwater • Relationship between Directive 91/414 and • Identification of Tier 2 leaching scenarios the WFD tailored to the use of a product Andrew Craven, independent consultant, for- • Quality of available GIS data bases and im- merly at Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD), plications for higher-tier leaching assess- York/UK ments

Andreas Huber, Environmental Fate Modelling, 11.50 The exposure assessment of pestici- DuPont de Nemours Crop Protection Europe, des in the authorization process Middle East & Africa, Bad Homburg/Germany Michael Neumann, Department of Environmental Exposure through Substances and Environmental Monitoring, Federal Environmental Agency (UBA), Dessau/Germany Wednesday, 21 June 2006

8.15 Refreshments 12.10 Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Peter Heininger, Head of Division Qualitative Products – best practice and water Hydrology, Federal Institute of Hydrology 9.00 Welcoming speech by protection – an industry (BfG), Koblenz/Germany perspective Andreas Zumdick, Head of Competence Center Agro, SGS INSTITUT FRESENIUS • Responsible care 16.30 Panel discussion GmbH, Taunusstein/Germany • National and international product 17.00 Coffee break and the chairman, stewardship activities David Arnold, Cambridge Environmental • Plant protection products – point source Assessments (CEA), Boxworth, Cambridge/UK pollution Chairman: Harry Vereecken, Director, Agrosphere Renate Becker-Arnold, Manager Product European policy and practice Institute, Institute for Chemistry and Dyna- Stewardship, BASF AG, Agricultural Center mics of the Geosphere (ICG), Forschungszen- Limburgerhof/Germany 9.10 Progress towards amending the trum Jülich GmbH, Jülich/Germany Plant Protection Products Directive 91/414/EEC 12.40 Panel discussion Environmental fate

Herman Fontier, Head of Service Pesticides 13.00 Lunch 17.30 Is a zonal approach to fate and and Fertilizers, Federal Public Service Health, exposure assessment the way Food Chain Safety and Environment, 14.30 Towards an EU Soil Framework forward? Brussels/Belgium Directive Carine Saison, Soil and Hydrology Research Joop Vegter, independent consultant, former Group, French Institute for Agronomical 9.40 Revision of Council Directive General Secretary, Technical Soil Protection Research and Research Institute for Develop- 91/414/EEC concerning the placing Committee, Den Haag/The Netherlands ment (INRA-IRD), Montpellier/France of plant protection products on the market – Agrochemical Industry’s Perspective 15.00 Persistence of plant protection pro- 18.00 The present role of lysimeters in ducts in soil – a proposal for risk leaching assessments • Main topics of the proposal and relation to assessment overall European goals • Historical review • Impact of the proposal on various parts of • Background for a dedicated assessment of • Draft guidance of FOCUS Groundwater society persistent plant protection products Workgroup • Evaluation of the proposal • Protection goals and the principles of the • Further perspectives with regard to EU au- risk assessment approach thorization and registration on national level Juliane Scharf, European Governmental •The tiered approach both for exposure and Affairs – Agricultural Business, BASF AG, Andreas Stork, Manager Envrionmental Fate effect assessment Agricultural Center Limburgerhof/Germany Group, Bayer CropScience AG, Mark Montforts, Senior Risk Assessor, Monheim/Germany National Institute for Public Health and the 10.10 91/414 – are risk assessments of Environment, Expertise Centre for Substances pesticides from agricultural uses 18.30 Panel discussion (RIVM), Bilthoven/The Netherlands proportional? Approx. 19.00 End of the first day David Arnold 15.30 Water Framework Directive (WPD)

Member of Water Framework Directive 10.40 Panel discussion Team, Water & Marine Unit, DG Environment, 11.10 Coffee break European Commission, Brussels/Belgium (invited) After the first conference Regulatory issues – day has ended, Akademie Thematic Strategy and EU Directives 16.00 Towards river basin management Fresenius would like to strategies – first results from pilot invite the participants to 11.40 The Thematic Strategy on the studies in Germany a leisurely evening on the vineyard of Sustainable Use of Pesticides Joachim Flick – you can enjoy a delicious • Importance of the cross-cutting principles meal with wine from the Rheingau – a Anne-Cécile Cotillon, Policy Officer, Unit of the WFD for effective integrated river perfect opportunity for talks and discus- Biotechnology and Pesticides, DG Environ- basin management•Identification and sions with speakers and participants. ment, European Commission, Brussels/ agreement of key water management is- Belgium sues • Elements for river basin management plans Michael Neumann is working as Sientific Officer Experts for the UBA, Dessau/Germany, in the Department of Environmental Exposure through Substances Elena Alonso-Prados is working as Environ- and Environmental Monitoring. mental Technologist for INIA, Madrid/Spain Stephen Northcliff is Professor of Soil Science David Arnold has spent more than 25 and Head of the Department of Soil Science at years in the agrochemical industry fo- the University of Reading/UK focussing on stra- cusing on environmental fate and tegies to encourage the sustainable use of soils ecotoxicology. Since 2000 he has and the maintenance of soil quality. He is also been Head of CEA, Boxworth, Cambridge/UK. Secretary General of the International Union of Renate Becker-Arnold is responsi- Soil Sciences. ble for Product Stewardship in the Thomas Pütz is Head of the Research European Technical Marketing Group on Mass Fluxes in Services Unit of BASF, Limburger- Agroecosystems of the Institute for hof/Germany. She has been working at BASF for Agrosphere within the ICG at 18 years. Forschungszentrum Jülich/Germany. In 2000 he Anne-Cécile Cotillon joined DG became Senior Scientist. Environment at the European Com- Brigitte Remy is working at INRA, Versailles/ mission, Brussels/Belgium, in 2005. France, and has been involved in the evaluation She is in charge of the finalisation of of fate and behaviour and the assessment of en- the Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of vironmental risk of pesticides in the regulatory Pesticides. framework since 2001. She is member of the Andrew Craven has worked in the working group aiming at developing national sce- field of pesticide safety and regulation narios for evaluating the risk of groundwater con- since 1978. He worked at PSD, tamination. York/UK, from 1992 until 2005, since Carine Saison is working for the INRA-IRD, which time he has been busy establishing him- Montpellier/France, and has been member of the self as an independent consultant. Soil and Hydrology Research Group for one year. Herman Fontier is Head of Service Pesticides Juliane Scharf is responsible for the European and Fertilizers at the Federal Public Service governmental affairs of BASF’s Agrobusiness Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment in since 2004. She is working for BASF,Agricultural Brussels/Belgium Center Limburgerhof/Germany, since 1993. She Peter Heininger is Head of the is member of various ECPA groups. Division of Qualitative Hydrology at Andreas Stork has been Head of the the BfG, Koblenz/Germany. He is Environmental Fate Group of the func- Secretary of the International Com- tion metabolism and environmental mission on Water Quality of the IAHS. fate at Bayer CropScience AG, Mon- John Hollis is a Principle Scientist in heim/Germany, since 2002. He jointed Bayer the Soil Systems Group of the NSRI, Crop Protection in 1998. Cranfield University, Silsoe/UK. He Csaba Szentes has been working for was secretary of the FOCUS Surface the Ecotoxicological Laboratory of the Water Scenarios working group. Plant Protection and Soil Conser- Chris Holmes manages the Spatial vation Service/Hungary as an ecoto- Technologies Group at Waterborne xicologist study director for 13 years. Environmental Inc., Leesburg/USA. He Matthias Trapp is working at the has over 15 years experience in the Institute for AgroEcology of the GIS. Rheinland-Pfalz AgroScience GmbH, Andreas Huber is working as Neustadt/Germany, as Head of the European Regulatory Modelling working group Environmental Information Expert for DuPont de Nemours Crop System. Protection/Germany with focus on GIS Joop Vegter is an independent consultant in the based exposure assessments. He is member of field of management of soils and water resour- the FOCUS Groundwater group. ces and secretary of the COMMON FORUM Christopher Leake is Global Product Network on Contaminated Land in the EU. Safety Manager at Bayer CropScience Harry Vereecken is Director of the AG, Monheim/Germany. He was Institute for Agrosphere within the Global Expert Scientist in Lyon/France Department of Chemistry and and went to Monheim in 2003. Dynamics of the Geosphere at Mark Montforts is a Senior Risk Forschungszentrum Jülich/Germany. Assessor at the Expertise Centre for Substances of the RIVM, Bilthoven/ The Netherlands. 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