EPPO Panel for the Efficacy Evaluation of Herbicides and Plant Growth Regulators
Composition (last updated May 2024)
| ATES Erdal (Mr) | Diyarbakir Plant Protection Research Institute, Diyarbakir (TR) |
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CHACHALIS Demosthenis (Mr) |
Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Athens (GR) |
| CORDINGLEY Matthew (Mr) | CropLife Europe – Cambridge |
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DEWALQUE Adrien (Mr) |
Federal Public Service of Public Health DG4 Animals, Plants and Food, Service Plant Protection Products and Fertilizers , Brussels (BE) |
| HAMBRUSCH Sabine (Ms) | AGES, Division for Food Security, Vienna (AT) |
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JüTTNER Tomas (Mr) |
Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture, Dept of Plant Protection Products, Brno (CZ) |
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LOCATELLI Aurore (Ms) |
ANSES, Maisons Alfort (FR) |
| McNEILAGE Sean (Mr) | HSE, York (GB) |
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MOL Erwin (Mr) |
National Plant Protection Organization, Wageningen (NL) |
| NOVAK Maja (Ms) | National Plant Protection Organization, Wageningen (NL) |
| SÖCHTING Hans-Peter (Mr) | JKI, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Plant Protection in Field Crops and Grassland, Braunschweig (DE) |
| SØNDERSKOV Mette (Ms) | Aarhus University, Dept. of Agroecology, Slagelse (DK) |
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TØRRESEN Kirsten Semb (Ms) |
NIBIO, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Ås (NO) |
| VAŠKOVÁ Alexandra (Ms) | Central Controlling and Testing Institute in Agriculture, Bratislava (SK) |
Terms of Reference (as agreed by the Executive Committee in 2018)
Introduction
The idea of the joint EWRC (European Weed Research Council)/EPPO Panel on herbicides was proposed at the first meeting of the Working Party on (Pesticides) Plant Protection Products in 1971. However, only in 1976 a joint EWRS/EPPO Panel for the Biological Evaluation of Herbicides was established and first meeting took place in 1978. In 1987 and 1988 the work expanded to plant growth regulators. After these meetings, any matter on herbicides was dealt with by correspondence. From 1989 to 1992, the Panel on Growth Regulators had its own meetings and nearly completed the work on guidelines. In 1995, there was another meeting of the Panel for Herbicides and Growth Regulators, this time together with the Panel on Fungicides and Insecticides. The Panel(s) was then dormant before being reactivated in 2003.
Scope
The Panel on Efficacy Evaluation of Herbicides and Plant Growth Regulators considers all aspects of data requirements for efficacy evaluation of herbicides and Plant Growth Regulators 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
- to prepare specific Standards for conducting field trials to evaluate the efficacy of herbicides and plant growth regulators (series PP 1)
- advise the Working Party on Plant Protection Products in regard to harmonization of data requirements for efficacy evaluation, including on EPPO Codes for herbicide and PGR uses
- 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 herbicides and plant growth regulators
- prepare examples of zonal efficacy evaluation
- prepare 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 up to two experts (if needed). 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 face to face 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.