Safe and Sustainable use of Pesticides

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Safe and Sustainable use of Pesticides

PR Newswire

BRUSSELS, June 12, 2012

BRUSSELS

,

June 12, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

Solutions to protect farmers and public health

Over the next two days, a delegation of over 50 crop protection industry and

authority representatives together with farmers from various European

countries gather in Sinaia,

Romania

, for a conference on the safe and

sustainable use of pesticides.

Each year the conference is organised in one of the countries implementing

ECPA's European crop protection industry-initiated Safe Use Initiative (SUI) - a

program designed to provide farmers and operators with an easy to use

toolbox to successfully increase crop protection user safety. This year the

conference has been organised by AIPROM (The Romanian Crop Protection

Association) together with the Romanian Ministry of Agriculture.

Participants will have the opportunity to learn and exchange views and

experiences on all aspects of applying plant protection products in a safe and

sustainable way. The conference also includes a farm visit in the region, where

participants will have the chance to see the practical implementation of the SUI

principles.

"SUI has enjoyed continued success over the past years. "In Romania, the SUI

training manual produced by the AIPROM was endorsed with the logo of the

Romanian Ministry of Agriculture and University of Agronomy in Bucharest. This

will increase SUI awareness and hopefully have an enormous impact on

farmer's uptake of the recommendations" -said Yves Picquet, President of

AIPROM.

In

Slovakia

, where the SUI program is also established, the Slovakian Crop

Protection's Association's video- guide comprising of 16 clips

[1]

on how to

properly use pesticides has been endorsed by the Slovakian Ministry of

Agriculture and is now the official video-manual from application techniques to

proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and disposal of the containers.

The SUI recommendations have not only been appreciated by European

authorities. In

France

, during the 2012 International Exhibition of Agriculture,

farmers awarded UIPP (The French Crop Protection Association) and partners

for its risk awareness campaign 'un tel outil de travail, ça se protège'

. "This

campaign highlights not only one of the key elements of basic Personal

Protective Equipment, i.e. the need of gloves when handling crop protection

products, but also risk management and prevention on farm. We are very

proud to have received this award and of being positively recognized by the

farming community" - commented Jean-Charles Bocquet, the Director General

of UIPP.

"In the ten years that our network has been running the Safe Use Initiative

project we have seen a great impact and uptake of the recommendations.

Today we are running SUI it in 12

[2]

countries and the intention is to share the

SUI principles with all Member States. Farmer and operator health is key, and

the easy to apply measures of the SUI contribute to a vibrant sustainable

agriculture sector"

- Friedhelm Schmider, Director General of the European

Crop Protection Association (ECPA) concluded.

To download the press release please follow the

link:

http://www.ecpa.eu/news-item/human-health/06-11-2012/672/safe-and-

sustainable-use-pesticides

The European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) represents the crop

protection industry interests at European level. Its members include all

major companies and national associations across Europe.

For more general information:

http://www.ecpa.eu - http://www.hungry4change.eu/ -

facebook.com/cropprotection - twitter.com/cropprotection

1. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFCBF7D8DC03E8880

2.

Portugal

,

Spain

,

France

,

Italy

,

Greece

,

Netherlands

,

Bulgaria

,

Poland

,

Lithuania

,

Cyprus

,

Slovakia

and

Romania