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ECPA Water Projects –
the Umbrella concept
Stuart Rutherford
ECPA Director, Environmental Affairs
Renaissance Brussels Hotel
24.2.2011
Contents
EU Regulatory challenges and drivers:
1. PPP authorisation legislation 91/414 and replacing Reg
1107/2009
2. Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC
3. Sustainable Use of PPPs Directive 2009/128/EC
4. Legislative framework schematic
How to address legislative challenges?
Working with partners and stakeholders
Building on and continuing TOPPS project work: Bridge and
TOPPS-prowadis
Conclusions
1. EU Authorisation legislation
Stringent EU registration requirements (Dir
91/414/EEC + replacement Reg 1107/2009):
10 years from discovery to market
> 100 specific tests, cost approx € 200 million
1100 compounds in 1991, < 400 remaining on
Annex I in 2010
60% of PPPs require mitigation to pass aquatic
Risk Assessments
Concerns about CP toolbox for farmers/
resistance management
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Number of Pesticide actives available to farmers
There has been a dramatic reduction over the last 10 years due to the EU
Dir 91/414/EEC registration review programme...
Number
“Existing” Actives
New Actives
0
1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009
Source: European Commission
Year
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2. Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC
Includes the following key elements:
Programmes of Measures (PoMs); RBMPs
Control of Priority Substances (PSs)
Establishing Environmental Quality Standards (EQSs)
Requiring monitoring and reporting of findings
Feedback loop to authorisation legislation
Interaction with CAP and RDR needed
Com. EG WFD & Agriculture – “catalogue of measures”
3. Sustainable Use of PPPs Directive 2009/128
Integration of the SUD with other policies is key
Includes measures on:
National Action Plans, progress indicators
training and certification of PPP users
inspection of equipment
protection of aquatic environment – e.g. Buffer zones
conservation area protection
handling and storage/ remnants
4. Overview of the PPP/ Water EU legislative framework
Pesticide Framework
Authorisation Directive on
(placing on the sustainable use of
market 2009/1107 pesticides (SUD)
repl. Directive 91/414 2009/128
Revision of Water Framework
Machinery Directive Directive (WFD)
(Pesticide application 2000 / 60 / EC
equipment)
2009 / 127 TREND: INCREASING FOCUS ON USE PHASE OF PESTICIDES
Other legislation/ measures:
• Drinking Water Directive • OSPAR Convention
• Groundwater Directive • Soil legislation
• Marine Framework Directive • Etc.
How to Address These Legislative Challenges (1)?
Despite product authorisation losses, still concerns
about amounts of PPPs found in water at times
Need identified to work with partners & stakeholders
Improving stewardship, tackling use phase identified
as critical...TOPPS was launched late 2005
TOPPS focussed on point sources
Towards the end of TOPPS (2008), ECPA ExCo
mandated further mitigation investigation
comprehensive approach, all users and all aspects of use
considered
How to Address These Legislative Challenges (2)?
• TOPPS marked start of a logical step-wise multi-annual
stewardship programme:
Largest and quickest gains for point sources TOPPS
Next, technical approaches could be deepened AIM; EOS
Now, complex/challenging diffuse sources TOPPS-prowadis
• These various objectives have been/ are being pursued
over the last 6 or 7 years under the following projects:
TOPPS-Life
Bridge & AIM together known as the
TOPPS-prowadis “Umbrella concept”
Water Protection Umbrella concept
TOPPS-prowadis
- promote consistent
water protection
‘Bridge’
Point source: Point source:
Establishment of Maintain momentum,
agreed EU BMPs investigate all mitigation
Demonstrations and options
Trainings Diffuse source: AIM
Arable and perennial Runoff
crops Drift
Working with Partners and Stakeholders
Big improvements are possible, provided:
- Awareness building continues
- TOPPS and TOPPS-prowadis gain
increasing buy-in and acceptance –
ECPA plans to do its part, but we need
support and collaborators
- The regulatory framework supports, pushes, pulls and helps all players
to learn about and adopt practical and realistic best practices
- As awareness, behaviour, equipment and infrastructure change for the
better, so PPP findings in water will be brought down to the lowest
possible levels
- All parties need to play their role in ensuring sustainable use of PPPs
so helping safeguard authorisations for key tools for European farmers
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Bridge: the start of an integrated approach
Started November 2008, running until 1Q 2011
Key ECPA objectives:
– Recognising that the end of the TOPPS project did not mean the
end of the work
– Maintain positive TOPPS momentum and expert network to
address current and future water-related challenges
– Ensure sustainability of TOPPS achievements
– Integrate diffuse source BMPs (AIM)
– Progress EOS concept
– Lay foundations for TOPPS-prowadis; to be launched in: Spain,
Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Poland
Bridge project: the main elements
TOPPS Upscaling & Sprayer Develop TOPPS-prowadis Project
Sustainability initiative
South East North MW Develop AIM New TOPPS-
Env. Diffuse sources countries prowadis
- Demonstrations & Optimized -Runoff Project
-Drift Preparation
Trainings Sprayer
- Demo trailers (EOS)
- Identify new catchments
in existing TOPPS
Countries and link to
WFD-RBMPs
TOPPS Website continuation and development
TOPPS- prowadis : Building on the foundation
of TOPPS to address the needs for the future
Knowledge Network
AIM
TOPPS (point sources)
2008 –
Closed 2008
2010
TOPPS Point and Diffuse Source objectives
Point Sustainability of TOPPS project
Using established networks
sources Continuing work on the EOS project
Dissemination and demonstration of diffuse
source mitigation (run-off, spray-drift)
Diffuse Fit within regulatory environment
sources Demonstration/ implementation/ maintenance of
mitigation options e.g. vegetative buffer strips
Timelines for water protection stewardship projects
Efficient and implementable risk mitigation is the target
through multi-stakeholder activities
Mitigation
15 EU countries Point sources
Bridge
Mitigation
AIM
Diffuse sources
TOPPS-prowadis
Oct 2005 Nov 2008 Jan 2011 Jan 2014
CONCLUSIONS
Key ECPA motivations and aspirations for Bridge and the launch of
TOPPS-prowadis:
Keep the TOPPS concept going; lay the foundations for ongoing future
work
Focus on real-life solutions aimed at turning ambitious EU societal
and regulatory goals into reality
Avoid unnecessary disruption to efficient and productive European
farming
Maintain enthusiastic network (partners and stakeholders) across the
EU
Expand on TOPPS achievements in terms of mitigation options
addressed (e.g. range of technical options/ diffuse sources) and
geographical area
Incorporate demonstration and dissemination of mitigation of diffuse
sources
Launch multi-partner TOPPS-prowadis project to run 1Q 2011 to 1Q
2014
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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