Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecotoxicology and Risk Management

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1 DIE AKADEMIE FRESENIUS Where Experts Meet! 17 th International Fresenius ECOTOX Conference Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecotoxicology and Risk Management 7 and 8 December 2017 in Mainz/Germany Highlights Regulatory developments EFSA: Current and future challenges for environmental risk assessment of plant protection products New developments in environmental risk assessments in Brazil NGO CARI on regulatory developments New development trends in European Regulations Amphibians in agricultural landscapes: threats, pesticides and conservation EFSA: Amphibian and reptile risk assessment Biopesticides Ecological risk assessment for microbial pesticides Are the current study guidelines fit for purpose? Environmental Risk Assessment of Biopesticides challenges with the current guidance Aquatics Problems and approaches in selecting the ecological recovery option when using semi-field experiments in prospective ERA ANSES: Use and acceptability of aquatic refinement options provided in the Aquatic Guidance Document Modelling and Mitigation Simulation modelling in ERA to support SPG definition The MAgPie project environmental risk mitigation in the EU The Experts Anne Alix Dow AgroSciences Yannick Bayona French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (ANSES) Paul J. Van den Brink Wageningen University and Research Centre Theo Brock Wageningen University and Research Centre Mark A. Clook British Health and Safety Executive, Chemicals Regulation Directorate (CRD, HSE) Peter Dohmen BASF Achim Gathmann German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) Mick Hamer Syngenta Phil Jarvis Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Deborah Maximo Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) Deborah Meier Andermatt Biocontrol Petter Melin RISE Research Institutes of Sweden Benedikt Schmidt Swiss Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Programme (KARCH) Noa Simón Delso Centre Apicole de Recherche et Information (CARI) Franz Streissl European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Christopher John Topping Aarhus University Mark Whittaker Applied Insect Science (APIS) Christian Wolf tier3 solutions

2 The Programme 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 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 Coffee break Challenges for regulatory developments: A German perspective Achim Gathmann, Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL), Germany The contribution of NGOs to European pesticide regulation the case of bees Noa Simón Delso, Centre Apicole de Recherche et Information (CARI), Belgium 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 Panel discussion Lunch New Development Trends in European Regulations 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 Amphibian and reptile risk assessment Coverage by fish, birds and mammals Protection goals Recommendations for risk assessment and research Franz Streissl, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Italy 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 Panel discussion Coffee break Biopesticides 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 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

3 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 Panel discussion End of the first day 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 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 Bird and mammal risk assessment: A regulatory view Representative of the HSE, Health and Safety Executive, Chemicals Regulation Directorate (CRD, HSE), United Kingdom 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 Panel discussion Coffee break Modelling and Mitigation 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 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 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 Panel discussion Lunch and end of the conference Information available online at:

4 The Experts Anne Alix has been the European Risk Management Leader at Dow AgroSciences since She has 17 years of experience in risk assessment of PPPs and has previously led the environmental fate and ecotoxicology unit at ANSES. Yannick Bayona is an Ecotoxicological Risk Assessor in the Regulated Products Department at ANSES in France. After his PhD on the effects of chemicals at the aquatic communities scale in mesocosms, he joined ANSES in Paul J. Van den Brink is a Professor of Chemical Stress Ecology and works at the Research Institute Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra) and the Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group of Wageningen University, both belonging to the Wageningen University and Research. Paul van den Brink is presently an Associate Fellow of the Canadian River Institute, honorary visiting professor at the University of York and visiting professor at the South China Normal University. Theo Brock is employed at Wageningen University and Research to scientifically underpin the prospective environmental risk assessment procedures for pesticides and other contaminants in freshwater ecosystems. Currently he is the Vice-Chair of the PPR Panel of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). He actively participated in the working groups that drafted the EFSA PPR Aquatic Guidance Document and the EFSA PPR Opinion on sediment ERA, the EFSA SC Opinion on covering recovery in ERA and the EFSA FA Guidance Document on ERA of feed additives. Mark A. Clook has worked for CRD-HSE and its predecessor (PSD) for over 25 years and has in that time been involved in many activities related to ecotoxicological risk assessment. His latest involvement was in contributing to the EFSA Guidance Document on bees. Peter Dohmen is a Senior Ecotoxicologist at the Agricultural Research Centre of BASF in Limburgerhof/ Germany. Achim Gathmann is the Head of the Unit Environment in the Department of Plant Protection Products at The German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL). He holds a Ph.D. in Biology and his key qualifications are agroecology, plant protection, biological control and risk assessment of PPPs and GMOs. Mick Hamer has almost 40 years experience working for Syngenta and its legacy companies in the field of ecotoxicology, environmental fate and risk assessment. Phil Jarvis is currently the Head of Farming at the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust s Allerton Project, where he has worked since 1992, originally concentrating on managing the farm. In 2002 Phil took a more active role in the Allerton Project s research and education activities. Deborah Maximo is an Environmental Analyst and has been working at IBAMA s Unit for ERA of pesticides since She has also been a steady member of IBAMA s stakeholder working group for the discussion of proposals and procedures for aquatic risk assessment for pesticides in Brazil. Deborah Meier is currently the Head of Regulatory Affairs at Andermatt Biocontrol AG in Switzerland. Coming from a scientific background in agronomy she has previously held a position as Technical and Regulatory Affairs Manager. Petter Melin has a background as Researcher and Associate Professor in Microbiology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. From 2013 to 2017 he has been working at the Swedish Chemicals Agency working all aspects of risk assessments of biopesticides. Benedikt Schmidt is a Research Group Leader at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a Scientific Collaborator at Info Fauna Karch, the Swiss Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Programme. He works on conservation biology and population ecology of amphibians. Noa Simón Delso is a Veterinarian and Researcher and has been working at the Belgian CARI (Centre Apicole de Recherche et Information) since She provides scientifictechnical advice to the association Bee Life European Beekeeping Coordination. Franz Streissl is a Senior Scientific Officer in the Pesticide Unit of the European Food Safety Agency. The focus of his work is on developing Guidance Documents for pesticide risk assessments (e.g. the Guidance Document on the risk assessment for bees). In the past he was responsible for assessment of environmental risks of pesticides at national and at the European level. He has contributed to a large number of governmental reports, presentations at conferences and workshops. He has an in-depth knowledge of the regulatory framework and risk assessment procedures of pesticides. Christopher John Topping is a Professor of Ecological Modelling at the Department of Bioscience at Aarhus University and a member of EFSA s PPR panel and various EFSA workgroups, and is the developer of the forthcoming EFSA honey bee model ApisRAM. Mark Whittaker has a PhD in entomology and is an established expert on the registration of biopesticides. He is the Managing Director of APIS, a specialist contract research lab for microbial safety testing. Christian Wolf is a Biologist and has been working in the area of ecotoxicology for over 20 years. He is the CEO of tier3 solutions.

5 About Who do you meet? Groups that should take part: Managing directors, boards of directors, managers, consultants and scientists in the fields of Research & development Human exposure & risk assessment Toxicology Registration Marketing & distribution Product stewardship & responsible care Human & consumer safety Sectors that should take part: Agrochemical industry Research institutes Authorities Professional associations Contract laboratories 18 and 19 June 2018 in Mainz Trade Exhibition Our conference provides you with the opportunity of presenting your company in a trade display. Present your products and services and reach out to your specific target groups. We would be happy to provide you with information on all the various options available from displaying product information to an exhibition stand with no further obligation on your part. Use the attached fax reply sheet to request our information material. Or simply call us. We would be more than pleased to assist you personally. Semsigül Yalcin phone: syalcin@akademie-fresenius.de 20 th International Fresenius AGRO Conference Behaviour of Pesticides in Air, Soil and Water info@akademie-fresenius.com The Organiser For over 20 years, Akademie Fresenius has been your partner for practice-orientated training on all the latest topics surrounding the safety and quality of food, consumer goods and chemical products along the whole production chain. Our portfolio not only includes international conferences but also offers national trade meetings, intensive practical seminars and training in small work groups. Our events are designed to promote an active exchange amongst our participants and offer the perfect platform for bringing the industry, the scientific sector, the authorities and the consulting field together. Excellent service, all-inclusive. Our wide-ranging advanced training opportunities contribute to giving our customers the competitive edge in all quality assurance, risk assessment, legal, production and technical questions. Akademie Fresenius is a joint venture between Cognos, one of the largest private and independent education groups in Germany, and SGS Institut Fresenius, one of the leading German providers of chemical laboratory analysis. You can find details on upcoming and new events at Do you have any questions? Programme and conceptual design Anne Möller phone: amoeller@akademie-fresenius.de Organisation and participant management Analisa Mills phone: amills@akademie-fresenius.de

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