Digital Agriculture: Regulatory and Scientific Aspects of Precision Application - Conference

Technological developments in agriculture equipment, including digital science have seen a fast acceleration over the past few years, driven by sustainability policies but also economical motivations. The rapid diversification of precision applications (PA) of crop protection products triggered a consensus among stakeholders to investigate the implications from a regulatory point of view and more particularly, on how to define a precision use in terms of risk assessment and product labelling, so that to better reflect the implementation of those application techniques as part of risk reduction objective. The digital Agriculutre conference ties into this discussion and offers a platform to all stakeholders.

Highlights of the last edition

• Regulatory Status
• The Commission on the status of precision applications in the regulatory system
• EFSA: Ideas on how to include precision uses in risk assessment
• Relevant Developments & Regulatory Challenges
• Implications of precision farming for risk assessment
• BVL and Syngenta: How to express precision uses of pesticides in the GAP-table
• Technology & Research
• The British HSE on drone technology and assessing the risks from pesticide applications
• Julius Kühn Institute on the power of system integration and the role of research in new technologies

Professionals working in the fields of:

• Technical Experts from Research & development
• Agricultural Technology Experts
• Producers, distributors and downstream users of Plant Protection Products
• Risk assessors
• Toxicologists
• Ecotoxicologists
• Product Stewards
• Regulators

Sectors that should take part:

• Agrochemical industry
• Agrotechnological industry
• Biotech Industry
• Research institutes
• Authorities
• Professional associations
• Contract laboratories/consultancies