2pm BST / 3pm CEST / 9am EDT

Description: 

• Feedback on Active Renewals
• Current concerns with Article 43
• The impact on Brexit to the approval workloads
• Current timelines with applications and renewals
• Understanding the workload of upcoming submissions

Speaker:

Christian Prohaska
Head of Department for Residue Behaviour
AGES - Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Austria

2:30pm BST / 3:30pm CEST / 9:30am EDT

Description: 

• Regulatory points
• Current concerns with Article 43
• Conclusion and regulatory needs

Speaker:

Karin Lauber
Senior Manager Regulatory Affairs Agrochemicals & Biorationals
Head of GLP & Regulatory Archives
SCC

3pm BST / 4pm CEST / 10am EDT

Description: 

• Update of the MRL requirements for imports using unapproved actives in Europe
• Understanding this MRL approach
• Assessing if there will be further updates to MRLs on approved actives list

Speaker:

Karsten Hohgardt
Deputy Head of Plant Protection Products Department
Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL)

3:30pm BST / 4:30pm CEST / 10:30am EDT

Description: 

• Low risk substances and products - status quo
  • Overview NAS and AIR
  • Criteria, data requirements, guidelines and guidance
• Registration of low risk substances and products
  • Regulatory handling: case studies
  • Incentives and disincentives
• Perspective and regulatory needs

Speaker:

Bernd Brielbeck
Head of Agrochemicals & Biorationals
SCC GmbH

• Legal outlook on data protection when discussing generic authorisations: recent wins and experience with Member States
• Data sharing requirements and limitations: interplay between art 59-60 and art 33-34 of Regulation 1107
• Discussing the options with purchased studies

Speaker:

Claudio Mereu
Joint-Managing Partner – Brussels
Fieldfisher

• Understanding ECHA’s grouping approach

Speaker:

Bjorn Hansen
Executive Director
European Chemicals Agency

3pm BST / 4pm CEST / 10am EDT

• Future of substance evaluation strategy in Europe
• Update regarding compliance checks for REACH dossiers
• The order of substance types that will be screened

Speaker:

WIM DE COEN
Head of Unit Hazard Assessment I
European Chemicals Agency

ED assessment of agrochemicals and biocides: Two years in and the bumpy ride continues

3:30pm BST / 4:30pm CEST / 10:30am EDT

• Assessment of ED properties for active substances and products
• Difficulties in satisfying testing requirements
• Market impacts of ED classification
• Effective substitution and phase out

Speaker:

ILSE TONK, PHD ERT
Regulatory Toxicologist
Charles River

• Recent legal cases before the board of appeal

Speaker:

Claudio Mereu
Joint-Managing Partner – Brussels
Fieldfisher

Increasing demands of sustainability require a reliable level of transparency. Join this session to learn how to master the challenge of monitoring the status of raw materials, manufacturing details and regulatory compliance of your products.  

Speaker:

Shawn Steuer
Director Strategy Regulatory
Veeva, Germany

• Overview and Timeline
• Understanding where your vulnerabilities are in the in-supply chains
• Marketing in the UK post-Brexit
• UK companies marketing in the EU post-Brexit
• Highlighting preparations needed to prepare for Brexit

Speaker:

Mike Potts
HM Inspector of Health and Safety, CRD Enforcement Team
Health & Safety Executive

• The UK's BREXIT Transition Period - PPP Regulation under the Withdrawal Agreement
• The Northern Ireland Protocol - Implications for PPP regulation in Northern Ireland
• The GB Future Stand Alone PPP Regime - What will things look like from 1 January 2021?

Speaker:

Iain Watt
Head of Plant Protection
TSG Consulting

• The BPR: protection of humans against viruses, or against biocides?
• Lessons learned from six months of corona-crisis
• Practical problems at the EU and Member State level
• How can industry maneuver between claims, borderlines and increased enforcement?

Speaker:

Koen van Maldegem
Partner, EU Regulatory, Competition, and Trade
FieldFisher

Speaker:

Sebastian Kraußlach
Public Affairs Manager, European Council of the Paint
Printing Ink and Artists' Colours Industry

• Impacts on the supply chain
• Understanding how companies have managed to combine health protection with business continuity
• Industry response to COVID19 – Lessons learnt

Speakers:

Fabio Stratta
Technical Director
Faravelli

Isabelle Demoment
Product Stewardship & Regulatory Director
Kersia Group

Bjorn Hansen
Executive Director
European Chemicals Agency

Industry view on proposed microplastics restriction
3pm BST / 4pm CEST / 10am EDT

• Principles for substance restriction under REACH
• Proposed definition of microplastics
• Relevant derogations
• Impact on co-formulants in plant protection products

Speaker:

Markus Fiess
Regulatory Product & Process Management
BASF

Challenges in Isotopic Labelling of Pesticides: Increase Time & Cost Efficiency
3:30pm BST / 4:30pm CEST / 10:30am EDT

• Short introduction of C-13 and C-14 labelling and their role in the agrochemical industry.
• Changes in the Agrochemical Market – Future challenges of the Isotopic labelling business.
• What factors influence the price of the labelled material? How can we decrease cost & timeline?

Speaker:

László ORHA
Custom Synthesis Program Manager
IZOTOP

Description: 

New smart formulation and studies to support registration of biopesticides and biostimulants

• Formulation development of biopesticide products based on microorganisms (e.g. WDG, G and OD).
• New analytical approach to determine the spore in the technical and formulated products.
• OMICS science to understand Biospesticides and Biostimulants mechanism of actions.

Speaker:

Giorgio Freschi
Business Development Manager
LabAnalysis

4:30pm BST / 5:30pm CEST / 11:30am EDT

Case history of GLP studies related to innovative products based on microorganism and plant extracts

• Practical phase development of five batch analysis on innovative products as microbiological and natural extract

Speakers:

Mercedes Pardo Martinez
Senior GLP Analytical Study Director
Chemservice

Silvia Colombo
Senior GLP Microbiology Study Director
Chemservice