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FOOTPRINT :: creating tools for pesticide risk assessment and management in Europe | |
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> Home > FOOTPRINT for policy makers FOOTPRINT for policy makers Click here for a summary document which provides you with useful information regarding how the FOOTPRINT tools can be used for policy- and decision-making. The aim of this section is to present policy makers with the main results of the FOOTPRINT project in a digested and ready-to-use form that can directly be integrated into the policy making process. FOOTPRINT is a research project in the 6th Framework Programme (Priority 8, SSP-Scientific Support to Policies) which aims at developing a suite of three pesticide risk prediction and management tools, for use by three different end-user communities:
EXPECTED RESULT #1: A set of coherent tools for pesticide risk assessment and management, from the large to the local scale For the first time, policy makers and operationals will benefit from a set of tools working at different scales which will share the same overall philosophy and underlying science. This means that the transposition of policies from the European and national scales to the regional and local scales will be made easier and will be coherent across the scales. This is a major breakthrough compared to the current situation where tools which are largely unrelated are being used at different scales. EXPECTED RESULT #2: A set of environmental indicators of pesticide exposure The three tools will adopt a scoring system that enables environmental performance to be assessed and 'hot spots' in the landscape to be identified. EXPECTED RESULT #3: A consensus around the tools The tools at the farm scale will use a combination of existing diagnostic methodologies which have been widely used in Member States. Also, the tools will rely on predictions of state-of-the-art pesticide fate models which have been used in pesticide risk assessment for years. |
        
> FOOTPRINT is a research project in the 6th Framework Programme which aims at... More>Access FOOTPRINT SUGAR 
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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 More news |
