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:

• Alessandra Moccia (IBMA) – Update on biocontrol regulation
• Belén Guijarro Díaz-Otero (Nacional Institute for Agriculture and food technology – INIA) – Biocontrol in the EU: current regulatory landscape and future directions for SEU markets
• Professor Alberto Angioni (UNICA, Italy) – Perspective from an evaluating institute in Italy
• Claudio Mereu (Bird & Bird) – Regulation of safeners and synergists
• Carlos Palomar, Director General, AEPLA (CropLife Spain) – Current regulatory environment and upcoming developments for PPPs in Spain
• Paolo Marchesini, European Crop Care Association – 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) – Recent legal cases in the plant protection sector
• Elisa Capellan (Kaeltia) – Zonal Summary of Southern EU
• TEAM mastery S.r.l (Italy) -Drinking water treatment assessment