PEST Hearing on Environmental impacts of pesticides and stakeholders’ recommendations, Brussels - Main contents

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date	September 6, 2018 14:00 - 18:00
city	Brussels, Italy
location	József Antall building (JAN) i
room	4Q2
attending	(Eric) Andrieu i et al.
organisation	Committee on EU authorisation procedure for pesticides (PEST) i

On Thursday 6 September, the PEST Committee will organise a public hearing with two expert panels. In the first part environmental impacts of pesticides and possible mitigation measures at Member State level will be presented and discussed. Invited experts are Mr Jeroen VAN DER SLUIJS (University of Bergen), Ms Noa SIMÓN-DELSO (Belgian Bee Keeping Center for Research and Information) and Mr Ettore CAPRI (Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Piacenza).

The second panel will treat stakeholders' recommendations on the current EU Regulation on the approval of plant protection products. The invited speakers for this panel are Ms Franziska ACHTERBERG (Greenpeace Europe), Mr Martin PIGEON (Corporate Europe Observatory) and Mr John CHINN (Crop Health and Protection).

Location: József Antall 4Q2

Last updated: 06-09-2018

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  Directorate General for Internal Policies of the Union

  Directorate for Structural and Cohesion Policies

  Special Committee on the Union’s authorisation procedure for pesticides

  SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE UNION’S AUTHORISATION PROCEDURE FOR PESTICIDES (PEST)

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    PUBLIC HEARING -

  “Environmental impacts of pesticides, including mitigation measures

  at Member State level”

  &

  “Stakeholders’ recommendations on the current EU regulation on the approval of plant protection products”

  Thursday, 6 September 2018, 14.00 - 18.00 József Antall Building - Room 4Q2

  Draft Programme

  14.00 - 14.05

  Welcome by Mr Eric ANDRIEU, Chair

  PANEL 1:

  Environmental impacts of pesticides, including mitigation measures at Member State level

  14.05 - 14.15

  Presentation by Mr Jeroen P. VAN DER SLUIJS

  Professor, University of Bergen & Utrecht University

  14.15 - 14.25

  Presentation by Ms Noa SIMÓN-DELSO

  Belgian Bee Keeping Center for Research and Information (CARI)

  14.25 - 14.35

  Presentation by Mr Ettore CAPRI

  (European Observatory on Sustainable Agriculture (OPERA), Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Piacenza)

  14.35 - 16.00

  Q&A session with Members

  pest-secretariat@europarl.europa.eu - www.europarl.europa.eu

  Stakeholders recommendations on the current EU regulation of the approval of plant protection products

  PANEL 2:

  16.00 - 16.10

  16.10 - 16.20

  16.20 - 16.30

  16.30 - 17.55 17.55 -18.00

  Presentation by Ms Franziska ACHTERBERG

  Greenpeace Europe

  Presentation by Mr Martin PIGEON

  CEO, Corporate Europe Observatory

  Presentation by Mr John CHINN

  Chair of the Board, Crop Health and Protection

  Q&A session with Members

  Closure of the public hearing by Mr Eric ANDRIEU, Chair

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  Other documents

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    Presentation Jeroen van der Sluijs, University of Bergen & Utrecht University
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    Presentation Noa Simón-Delso, Belgian Bee Keeping Center for Research and Information
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    Presentation Franziska Achterberg, Greenpeace Europe
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    Presentation Martin Pigoen, Corporate Europe Observatory
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    Written statement by John Chinn, Crop Health and Protection
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    CV Jeroen P. van der Sluijs
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    CV Noa Simón-Delso
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    CV Franziska Achterberg
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    CV John Chinn
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    CV Martin Pigeon
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    CV Ettore Capri

The Special Committee on EU authorisation procedure for pesticdes (PEST) has the responsibility of investigating how pesticides are admitted to the European market.

The special committee is a response to concerns raised about the risk posed by the herbicide substance glyphosate. The herbicide had its marketing licence renewed by EU member states for five years in November 2017.