Day 01 - 10 June
- 12.00
Registration & Snacks
- 13.00
Welcome
Olivier de Matos
Director General, CropLife Europe
Session 1: Regulation 396/2005 and the routine MRL setting process
- 13.10
EU MRL setting – the routine process
· Description of different routine MRL setting processes i.e. art. 6 including timelines · Steps where stakeholders can get information and access documents · What changed since March 2021 by introducing transparency regulation and IUCLID · Default MRL policy · How to streamline MRL setting process? · ALARA principle · Rules for applicability of new MRLs
Dave Parker
Technical Expert - Consumer Risk Assessment, Syngenta
- 13.30
Regulation 396/2005 – open items after 20 years
· Annex I category feed and fish· Annex VI – processing factors · Dual use and triple use a.s. · Former a.s. still falling under 396/2005 · Annex IV and biopesticides · Footnote 1 to Annex I · Multiple source substances
Dave Parker
Technical Expert - Consumer Risk Assessment, Syngenta
- 14.10
Relevance of MRLs and other SPS topics for FVC
· Sanitary and phytosanitary topics of relevance
Dave Parker
Technical Expert - Consumer Risk Assessment, Syngenta
- 14.30
Q+A
- 14.50
Coffee Break
Session 2: MRL changes
- 15.35
Non-renewed and expired substances in the EU and their consequences on MRLs
· Reasons for MRL changes, especially lowering of MRLs, e.g. expiry, non-renewals, targeted reviews, art. 12 · Process and rules · Deferral period and transitional measures · WTO SPS obligations · Steps where stakeholders can learn about upcoming MRL changes · New wording for transitional measures and consequences for EU and non-EU produced food and feed · Consideration of aspects like consumer safety and “formal” MRL changes
- 16.05
When politics comes into a technical process
· Current observations like no opinion in SCoPAFF and objections by EP · How to deal with current pressure from different angles · Environmental concerns of global dimension · Consequences of losing MRLs for trade · Level playing field argument · Mirror measure discussions and potential impacts · WTO SPS obligations · Why using the MRL process to address 1107/2009 issues · Current Specific trade concern discussion at WTO on MRLs
- 16.30
Q+A
- 16.50
Impact of MRL changes to Value Chain partners
· How to keep EU market attractive enough for third country operators? · Dependency of EU agriculture on import and export · Discrepancies between EFSA conclusions on MRL reviews and actual food sector's conditions. · Consequences like food waste, recalls · Economic damage · Examples of various shelf-lifes · Examples of cases where produce could not be sold · Suggestion for a trade friendly and consumer safe approach · Reduction of MRLs due to lower LOQs · Lack of MRL harmonization and consequences
- 17.50
Q+A
- 18.10
Summary of day 1 + housekeeping
- 18.20
Reception
- 18.45
Conversation starter Benefit - Hazard - Risk communication
- 19.00
Walking dinner
- 21.00
End of day 1
Day 02 - 11 June
- 08.30
Registration & Snacks
- 9.00
Welcome to day 2 and housekeeping
Session 3: Why crop protection? Why different needs?
- 9.10
Crop protection needs in the EU and around the world
· What are the challenges in the different countries, Different pests, weeds and fungi in general and due to climate change · Perception of CP in different countries · Challenges for good CP due to loss of various a.s. in the EU · Consequences of loss of a.s. in the EU · Resistance management · What’s coming in addition to chemical CP? Biopesticides, precision ag,… · Benefit – hazard – risk · Importance of minor uses to stakeholders · Consequences of missing MRLs on minor uses
- 10.00
Q+A
Session 4: MRLs outside the EU-27
- 10.15
GB MRL setting process, timelines and stakeholder
· Process, timelines, stakeholders · Transparency · Diverging EU and GB MRLs! · Adoption process of historical CXLs!
- 13.10
Draft sampling regulation and Increased control measures
· What is coming in the sampling regulation· Rules to increase frequency regulation · New monthly agri-fraud publications · What role plays RASFF?
- 10.40
Q+A
- 10.50
Coffee break
- 11.35
Codex MRLs
· Observation of changes in CXL adoption rates by EU and GB · Potential reasons in different requirements · General adoption rates of countries and how to increase them · How to enhance Codex output
- 12.00
· How do other jurisdictions handle MRL changes, deferral periods and transitional measures · Different data requirements leading to diverging MRLs · Numerical MRL changes confuse FVC
- 12.15
Q+A
- 12.25
Light Lunch
Session 5: Monitoring and enforcement
- 13.10
Draft sampling regulation and Increased control measures
· What is coming in the sampling regulation· Rules to increase frequency regulation · New monthly agri-fraud publications · What role plays RASFF?
- 13.30
Official monitoring
· Most recent pesticide residue monitoring data · Monitoring of processed products · How to apply the best processing factor · Use of monitoring data for cumulative assessment · Measurement uncertainty
- 13.50
Private monitoring
· Most recent data · How to enforce low MRLs like 0.005 mg/kg in a daily routine · How to decide which a.s. to analyze? · Challenges in sampling · Challenges for processed commodities · Complex residue definitions · Private standards · Measurement uncertainty · Reacting to alerts
- 14.10
Q+A
- 14.30
Summary of workshop and close
- 14.50
