We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
An approach to fulfill art 8 of directive 2009/128: procedure of risk assessment for pesticide application equipment.
- Authors
Stas, M.; Defays, G.; Nuyttens, D.; Mostade, O.; Declercq, J.; Zwertvaegher, I.; Dekeyser, D.; Huyghebaert, B.
- Abstract
The EU Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of pesticides requires that Member States (MS) shall ensure that all Pesticide Application Equipment (PAE) in professional use shall be subject to inspection at regular intervals. Article 8.3 of the Directive allows the MS to derogate from the mandatory inspection at regular intervals or to apply different timetables and inspection intervals for certain types of PAE based on a Risk Assessment (RA) for human health, food safety and environment and an assessment of the scale of use. In order to fulfill Article 8.3, a risk assessment protocol was developed in Belgium within the framework of the SIRA-APESTICON project. Risk is now evaluated for the human health and the environment on all Belgian equipment. It will offer guidelines about the necessity to carry out an inspection of every PAE in use. The protocol is based on technical parameters subject to inspections, their occurrences and severities, but also on national scale of use of the PAE types. Results are expressed at different scale levels: the defect, the machine and the country.
- Subjects
SPRAYING equipment; PESTICIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL risk assessment; RISK assessment; AGRICULTURAL equipment
- Publication
Berichte aus dem Julius Kühn-Institut, 2018, Issue 196, p80
- ISSN
1866-590X
- Publication type
Article