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The 3 FOOT tools: FOOT-FS, FOOT-CRS & FOOT-NES

The 3 tools which will be developed within the context of the FOOTPRINT project have different objectives and remits as they are intended to be used by 3 communities of end-users having different requirements with regard to pesticides:
1) Farmers and extension advisers at the Farm Scale (FS)
2) Water managers and those in charge of implementing the WFD at the Catchment and Regional Scales (CRS)
3) EU and member states policy- and decision-makers, and pesticide registration authorities at the National and EU Scales (NES)

Although the 3 tools will be working at different scales and will be very different in their presentation, they will share the same overall philosophy and underlying science and will therefore provide a coherent and integrated solution to pesticide risk assessment and risk reduction from the scale of the farm to the EU scale.

FOOT-FS FOOT-CRS FOOT-NES

Target end-users and stakeholders Farmers and extension advisers Local authorities and water managers Policy and decision makers

Scale Farm scale

Catchment and Regional Scales

National and EU Scales

The 3 tools will each allow:
- the identification of those areas in the agricultural landscape that most contribute to the contamination of water resources by pesticides
- estimates of the levels of pesticide contamination in water resources to be made

In addition, they will provide site-specific recommendations on how to reduce the transfer of pesticides to water resources.

The 3 tools will be evaluated within the context of the project through a programme of piloting and evaluation tests at the field, farm and samm catchment scales.

The software applications will be designed to meet the expectations of stakeholders and future users and will therefore integrate different approaches to risk assessment and modelling depending on the target user community. The relevance of the tools developed to the expectations of the target end-user communities will be ascertained through the feedback provided by the members of the Advisory Committee.

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08/08/08: Annual meeting 2008 to take place on 6 & 7 Nov.
31/07/08: Major upgrade of the FOOTPRINT PPDB
01/07/08: FOOT-FS piloting workshops held in 7 EU countries
09/06/08: Stakeholder seminar held in France
26/03/08: Release of FOOTPRINT SUGAR
18/01/08: New paper accepted in PMS
18/12/07: New paper on bound residues accepted in ES&T
15/12/07: New document for policy- and decision-makers
23/11/07: PPTs of the FOOTPRINT annual meeting in Italy available for download
07/09/07: FOOTPRINT special session at Piacenza conference
14/08/07: 2 new papers
24/06/07: French web site
02/04/07: Release of the first project newsletter
29/11/06: Posters available for download
26/09/06: Presentation at the AgChemForum 2006
02/07/06: FOOTPRINT reviews for download
17/05/06: New FOOTPRINT database released
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