EPPO Panel for the Efficacy Evaluation of Fungicides and Insecticides
Composition (last updated September 2024)
|
BUGIANI Riccardo (Mr) |
Servizio fitosanitario regionale, Bologna (IT) |
| DUBJAKOVA Timea (Ms) | Central Control and Testing Institute in Agriculture, Bratislava (SK) |
|
IVIĆ Dario (Mr) |
CCAFRA – Institute for Plant Protection, Zagreb (HR) |
| JILESEN Claudia (Ms) | National Plant Protection Organization, Wageningen (NL) |
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KARAMAOUNA Filitsa (Ms) |
Benaki Phytopathological Institute , Athens, Greece (GR) |
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Keslarova Hana (Ms) |
Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture, Plant Protection Products Section, Brno (CZ) |
| KOVACS Gergő (Mr) | National Food Chain Safety Office (NÉBIH), Budapest (HU) |
| LADURNER Edith (Ms) | BIOGARD Division, Cesena (IT) |
|
LUTZ Matthias (Mr) |
Agroscope, Wädenswil (CH) |
| MATZEN Niels (Mr) | Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology, Slagelse (DK) |
| McGILLOWAY David (Mr) | Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (IE) |
| POLYN Stefanie (Ms) | Federal Public Service of Public Health, Brussels (BE) |
| SITAVANC Lisa (Ms) | AGES – Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Wien (AT) |
| TEICHMANN Martin (Mr) | CropLife Europe – BASF (DE) |
| TOMBETTE Hélène (Ms) | ANSES, Maisons Alfort (FR) |
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TORNE RIFA Maria (Ms) |
CropLife Europe – Corteva Agriscience (ES) |
|
ZAMANI-NOOR Nazanin (Ms) |
Institute for Plant Protection in Arable Crops and Grassland, Braunschweig (DE) |
Terms of Reference
Introduction
Following the first meeting of the Working Party in 1971, two Panels were named: Panel for the Biological Evaluation of Fungicides and Panel for the Biological Evaluation of Insecticides, Acaricides and Nematicides. From 1972 until 1984, they held their meetings often jointly and immediately after the Working Party on Pesticides (since 1988 WP on Plant Protection Products). During the meeting in Madrid (1984), a new approach was put forward: the WP should only discuss the main issues, and the examination and discussion of guidelines should be left to the specific Panels. So in 1985, two Panels were merged into one on Biological Evaluation of Fungicides and Insecticides, Acaricides and Nematicides. In 1988, the Panel became the Panel for the Biological Evaluation of Fungicides and Insecticides. Only in 1989 was ‘biological evaluation’ changed to ‘efficacy evaluation’ and the Panel’s name remained the same ever since.
Scope
The Panel on Efficacy Evaluation of Fungicides and Insecticides considers all aspects of data requirements for efficacy evaluation of plant protection products and promotes harmonization to facilitate communication and regulatory data exchange on plant protection products between authorities in different countries and between industry (applicants) and regulators.
Tasks
- prepare specific Standards for conducting field trials to evaluate the efficacy of fungicides and insecticides (series PP 1)
- advise the Working Party on Plant Protection Products in regard to harmonization of data requirements for efficacy evaluation
- advise the Working Party on Plant Protection Products in regard to general policy on maintenance and revision of Standards to meet the needs of industry and regulators in the plant protection products sector;
- revise ‘standard text’ for Standards on fungicides and insecticides
- revise or develop general Standards in series PP 1 in conjunction with the Panel on General Standards on Efficacy
- prepare examples of zonal efficacy evaluation
- revise format for the extrapolation tables for minor uses
- carry out specific additional tasks requested by the Working Party on Plant Protection Products or the EPPO Secretariat;
- report to the Working Party on Plant Protection Products on its activities.
Way of Working
- The EPPO Secretariat provides or nominates the Chair and Secretary.
- Experts for the Panel are nominated by member countries and by the European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) and appointed by the Executive Committee. ECPA (via their EPPO contact point) may nominate two experts (fungicide & insecticide). Panel members should be selected on the basis of their expertise and should serve in an individual capacity.
- The Panel normally meets annually. In between annual meetings it may meet virtually by teleconference or other means, and may hold e-mail consultations to facilitate rapid decision making.
- Reports of meetings are circulated within four weeks in draft and participants are given two weeks in which to comment. After that the report is finalized.
- Proposal for revision of PP 1 Standards may come from Panel members, WP participants or any other user of these Standards.