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For many years, the Akademie Fresenius International AGRO Conference "Behaviour of Pesticides in Air, Soil and Water" has been the perfect platform for bringing together the regulatory, industrial and consulting communities. With the COVID-19 crisis, it has become difficult to gather physically. However, since we all need to continue to learn from one another, we have decided to keep up our dialogue in the virtual space. We therefore cordially invite you to join this year’s Online Conference. Plenty exciting presentations are awaiting you! And they will all be accessible from the comfort of your home or your office, thus reducing travel on the one hand and increasing accessibility on the other hand. We are looking forward to meeting you!

Highlights

Regulatory issues

• European Commission update on Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009
• EFSA update on developments
• Harmonisation updates in the Northern, Central and Southern zones
• FOCUS degradation kinetics guidance
• Plant protection regulation update from Health Canada
• KEMI’s dialogue-based multi stakeholder approach

Environmental fate

• Non-extractable residues (NER) in
• degradation assessment
• Field dissipation studies in the Netherlands
• Lipophilicity of (non-)ionised chemicals and root uptake
• TFA in a long-term semi-field study
• Aquatic exposure assessment of pesticides in Latin America

Exposure, risk assessment and mitigation

• Pesticide monitoring in the Netherlands
• Spatial modelling for groundwater: Use for registration, design, interpretation of monitoring
• Risk assessment measures aimed at
• preventing pesticide contamination in small catchments
• Guidance document on treated seeds
• Drift modelling and landscape assessment

Who do you meet?

Groups that should take part:

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