1) The document outlines EFSA's work on developing guidance documents for estimating soil degradation rates, soil exposure concentrations, emissions from protected crop systems, and groundwater exposure assessments. 2) EFSA has published opinions and supporting documents on estimating soil degradation rates and soil exposure and is developing guidance documents on these topics for 2013-2014. 3) EFSA is also developing a new guidance document on estimating emissions from protected crop systems based on published opinions and reports, with the guidance foreseen for 2013. 4) EFSA received mandates from the European Commission for two opinions on the FOCUS groundwater report to evaluate lower and higher tier assessment recommendations, with opinions planned for adoption in 2013.

1. Activities on Environmental fate
Pesticide Unit
Mark Egsmose
ECPA-IBMA workshop with EFSA
26th April 2012, Parma Italy 1

2. Outline
• Soil degradation rate GD
• Exposure in soil (PECsoil) GD
• Protected crops GD
• FOCUS ground water opinions
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3. Soil degradation and exposure GD
• Revision of the GD on
persistence in soil
 Requested to be revised based on MS
consultation through the SCFCAH
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4. Soil degradation rate GD
• Opinion for estimating DegT50 in soil
(published)
• Stakeholder consultation report (published)
• GD on DegT50 (cookbook) (Foreseen for 2013
depending on mandate from the Commission)
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5. Soil exposure GD
• Opinion on estimating PECs in soil for annual
crops (published)
• Grant on revision of crop interception values for
FOCUS crops (Foreseen for May 2013)
• Tender for software tools in support of PECs in
soil GD launched. Closing date 18 June 2012
• GD on PECs in soil (cookbook) (Foreseen for
2014)
• Depending on timing for arrival of mandate from the
Commission
• Related to availability of software tools
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6. Soil exposure GD
Background reports
– Two JRC reports on soil weather data (SLA) (published)
– EFSA report on scenario selection (published)
– External report on validation of the guidance (published)
– External report on crop methodology for estimating interception
factors for cereals (published)
– EFSA report on scenario parameterization (published)
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7. Protected crops GD
• Development of a new GD on
emissions from protected crop
systems
 Request for guidance based on MS
consultation through the SCFCAH
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8. Protected crops GD
• Stakeholder report on project plan and
Opinion on clustering and ranking
(published)
• PROTEA stakeholder workshop
(published)
• Outline Opinion on guidance for
emissions from protected crops
(published)
• Opinion on clustering and ranking of
emissions (published) 8

9. Protected crops GD
• Supporting documents on data-collection
– For EU East and South (published)
– For EU North(published)
– Second data-collection Central zone (published)
– Second data-collection Southern zone (published)
– Data-base on protected crop systems (Available – may be published)
• Supporting documents on emissions
– Two external reports on methodology for estimating emissions from
protected crops (published)
– External report on ranking/estimating emissions from protected crop
systems (published)
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10. Protected crops GD
• Preparation of EFSA GD based on Opinion on
clustering and ranking of emissions from
protected crops
– GD (cookbook) (Foreseen for 2013 depending on
mandate from the Commission)
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11. FOCUS Groundwater Opinions
FOCUS Groundwater report (2009) (SANCO/321/2000
rev 2)
• Working document for use released on:
http://focus.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
• Mandate for two Opinions
on the FOCUS report
received from Commission
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12. FOCUS GW Opinion A (Lower tiers)
• For Opinion A it is requested whether:
• the recommendations are consistent with the state of the art of
science in this field for the elementary (tier 1) assessment;
• the proposed procedures for elementary assessments are
scientifically robust enough for the intended use;
• the proposed changes in elementary assessment scenarios and
model parameterisations for elementary assessment are adequate;
• the shells and tools that have been released via the agreed version
control procedure deliver the intended elementary assessment.
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13. FOCUS GW Opinion B (Higher tiers)
• For Opinion B it is requested whether:
• the recommendations are consistent with the state of the art of
science in this field for the tiered approaches and higher tier
assessments;
• the proposed procedures for including higher tier experimental
results in the assessment procedure are scientifically robust and
consistent with a tiered approach;
• the report is presented in a way that facilitates communication of the
methodology for exposure assessment of groundwater;
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14. Timing
• Opinion A on lower tier assessment foreseen for
adoption in February 2013
• Opinion B on higher tier assessment foreseen
for adoption in June 2013
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15. Location of EFSA science
Published scientific documents from EFSA
available on:
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/publications.htm
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16. Thank you
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