Highlights:

Regulatory issues

• Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 update
• EFSA update on developments on EU guidance
• Update on aged sorption
• Update from the Northern, Central and Southern zones
• Sustainable Use Directive 2009/128/EG and the Dutch policy

Environmental fate

• Meta-analysis of pesticide sorption in subsoils
• New laboratory study on soil column leaching in Canada
• The new OECD Guidance Document for Terrestrial Field Dissipation Studies
• Screening of French groundwater for regulated and emerging contaminants
• Plant uptake in regulatory environmental fate modelling

Exposure, risk assessment and mitigation

• Non-relevant metabolites in drinking water in Germany
• Pesticide exposure for aquatic risk assessment in Brazil
• Outcome from the SETAC Pellston workshop “Simplifying environmental mixtures”
• Greenhouse Emission Model, Dutch scenarios and EU Guidance Document on covered crops
• Update on spray drift

Who do you meet?

Groups that should take part:

Managing directors, boards of directors, members of supervisory boards, managers and scientists in the field of:

• Environmental behaviour
• Field inspection
• Research & development
• Legal & regulatory affairs
• Registration
• Ecotoxicology
• Exposure & risk assessment
• Monitoring & computer modelling

Sectors that should take part:

• Agrochemical industry
• Research institutes from the area of agriculture, soil, hydrology and air
• Authorities (agricultural inspection offices, registration and control authorities)
• Water supply enterprises
• Professional associations