Get-together on Wednesday, 6 December 2017

Will you arrive on Wednesday?
Come to the hotel bar at 8 p.m. and meet other participants and experts in a relaxed atmosphere.

Thursday, 7 December 2017

8.30 Registration and coffee

9.00 Welcome address by Akademie Fresenius and introduction by the Chair

Peter Dohmen, BASF, Germany

Regulatory Developments

9.10 New developments in environmental risk assessments in Brazil

• Recent discussions on aquatic risk assessment of pesticides
• First regulation on risk assessment of pesticides for bees

Deborah Maximo, Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA), Brazil

9.35 Questions and answers

9.55 Current and future challenges for environmental risk assessment of pesticides

• Landscape based risk assessment
• The status of the EFSA 2020 strategy
• Overview of the DEV activities in ecotox

Franz Streissl, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Italy

10.20 Coffee break

10.50 Challenges for regulatory developments: A German perspective

Achim Gathmann, Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL), Germany

11.15 The contribution of NGOs to European pesticide regulation – the case of bees

Noa Simón Delso, Centre Apicole de Recherche et Information (CARI), Belgium

11.40 A Farmer‘s perspective on regulatory developments

• Practical examples of dealing with regulation from the Allerton Project
• Good and bad regulation and win-win scenarios

Phil Jarvis, Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, United Kingdom

12.05 Panel discussion
12.35 Lunch

New Development Trends in European Regulations

13.40 Amphibians in agricultural landscapes: Threats, pesticides and conservation

• Amphibians : Threats in agricultural landscapes
• Exposition to pesticides in aquatic and terrestrial environment
• Avoiding stressor effects on populations
• effects mitigation of pesticides and other threats

Benedikt Schmidt, Swiss Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Programme (KARCH), Switzerland

14.05 Amphibian and reptile risk assessment

• Coverage by fish, birds and mammals
• Protection goals
• Recommendations for risk assessment and research

Franz Streissl

14.30 Some of the risk assessment challenges facing Industry

• Addressing new guidance and increasing complexity
• Increasing precaution and political decision making

Mick Hamer, Syngenta, United Kingdom

14.55 Panel discussion
15.25 Coffee break

Biopesticides

15.55 Environmental risk assessment of biopesticides

• Legislation, guidance, future perspective and challenges
• Fate and behaviour of biocontrol strains
• The big issue of relevant metabolites

Petter Melin, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sweden

16.20 Ecological risk assessment for microbial pesticides: Are the current study guidelines fit for purpose?

• Parasitic wasps (Aphidius rhopalosiphi)
• Honeybees

Mark Whittaker, Applied Insect Science (APIS), United Kingdom

16.45 Environmental risk assessment of biopesticides: Challenges and experiences from the perspective of an SME

• Biopesticides as niche products
• Consequence of non-appropriate study requirements on the registration of microbial PPPs
• Future prospects

Deborah Meier, Andermatt Biocontrol, Switzerland

17.10 Panel discussion

17.40 End of the first day

18.50 Departure time for the evening event
As always you are most welcome to attend our evening event, which will take us to Mainz for a dinner visit at the beautiful “Heilig Geist” restaurant this time. We will also have the opportunity to visit the local Christmas market. Please join us to continue the day’s interesting discussions in a relaxed and leisurely atmosphere.

Friday, 8 December 2017

8.30 Welcome address by the Chair

Mark A. Clook, Health and Safety Executive, Chemicals Regulation Directorate (CRD, HSE), United Kingdom

Aquatics

8.40 Problems and approaches in selecting the ecological recovery option when using semi-field experiments in prospective ERA

• Specific protection goals and interpreting recovery in micro-/mesocosm tests
• Species traits affecting recovery and vulnerable taxa
• Internal and external recovery
• Spatial-temporal extrapolation

Theo Brock, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands

9.05 Use and acceptability of aquatic refinement options provided in the Aquatic Guidance Document

Yannick Bayona, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES), France

9.30 Panel discussion
9.50 Coffee break

Birds and Mammals

10.20 Bird and mammal risk assessment: A regulatory view

Representative of the HSE, Health and Safety Executive, Chemicals Regulation Directorate (CRD, HSE), United Kingdom

10.55 Field effect studies for vertebrate risk assessment

• Study types for bird and wild mammal effect studies in the field
• Modern field techniques for different studies
• Statistical methods for data analysis

Christian Wolf, Tier 3 solutions, Germany

11.20 Panel discussion
11.40 Coffee break

Modelling and Mitigation

12.10 The development of ecological scenarios for the application of effect models in ERA for pesticides

• Development of environmental scenarios which include exposure and effect scenarios
• Species selection for ecological modelling based on vulnerability assessment

Paul J. Van den Brink, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands

12.35 Simulation modelling in ERA to support the definition of specific protection goals

• Definition of the problem in setting SPGs for population-level landscape scale ERA
• Examples from birds and amphibians for evaluating biological relevance and identification of critical life-stages

Christopher John Topping, Aarhus University, Denmark

13.00 The MAgPie project – environmental risk mitigation in the EU

• Overview of the toolbox content
• How can the tools be used in the risk assessment and decision making
• Example of implementation in Member States

Anne Alix, Dow AgroSciences, United Kingdom

13.25 Panel discussion

13.55 Lunch and end of the conference

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