Welcome

It is with pleasure that I welcome you to our second Southern European Plant Protection Conference. For 6 years Kerona has been organising virtual symposia which take place over 1 -2 mornings. while these symposia have been well received, our intention was always to have a physical conference  where delegates could meet and network and the feedback from many delegates has been that this would be their preference. Therefore, now you can have the best of both worlds – for those of you who prefer a short virtual symposium that you can fit into your regular day you have the option of the virtual Dublin PPP symposium which takes place online every November/ December. For others who prefer to meet physically, you can attend the SEU PPP Conference.

Of course, you can always attend both if you are very keen!

Irene 

Conference highlights will include:

• Pierre-Francois Chaton (Anses, France) – A feedback from France on the Zonal evaluation in Southern Zone
• Alessandra Moccia (IBMA, Spain) – Update on biocontrol regulation
• Belén Guijarro Díaz-Otero (Nacional Institute for Agriculture and food technology – INIA, Spain) – Risk assessment for Biocontrol Pesticides
• Manousos Foudoulakis (Corteva Agriscience, Greece) – Regulatory hurdles on implementation of the new EFSA B&M guidance
• Professor Alberto Angioni (UNICA, Italy) – Perspective from an evaluating institute in Italy
• Claudio Mereu (Bird & Bird, Belgium) – Regulation of safeners and synergists
• Carlos Palomar, Director General, AEPLA (CropLife Spain) – Current regulatory environment and upcoming developments for PPPs in Spain
• José Paulo Filipe Afonso de Sousa (University of Coimbra, Portugal) – Development of guidance documents For ecotoxicology) – Current regulatory environment and upcoming developments for PPPs in Spain
• Paolo Marchesini (European Crop Care Association, Belgium) – Post-patent industry perspective on the Food & Feed Safety Omnibus
• Ricardo Petersen (ERM, Portugal) – Challenges in soil ecotoxicological analytics and potential advances
• Adrián Parra García (Bird & Bird, Belgium) – Recent legal cases in the plant protection sector
• Dr Elisa Capellán Montoto (Kaeltia Consulting, Spain) – Current developments in the regulation of PPP’s in Spain
• Monica Locatelli (Team Mastery, Italy) -Drinking water treatment assessment
• Ferran Soldevila (Sun Chemicals, Spain) – Highlights of EU 2019/1009 commercial strategy
• Rovensa Next (Spain) – Experience in marketing biocontrol Product in the EU