IBMA and Microbial PPPs Task Force Seminar Invitation

The EU Farm to Fork Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation Proposal (SUR) finally focuses on biological control. But how to achieve fast-track biocontrol authorisation including microbials?

Invitation for 13th October 2022:
Seminar on fast-track Biocontrol authorisation – in the European Parliament and online

Dear Madam, dear Sir,

We have the pleasure to invite you to the hybrid High-Level Seminar/Webinar

The EU Farm to Fork Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation Proposal (SUR) finally focuses on biological control. But how to achieve fast-track biocontrol authorisation including microbials?

The seminar will take place on Thursday 13 October 2022 at 14:00-16:00 CET in the European Parliament (Room SPAAK 5B1) and online. Thanks to the contributions of H.E. Ing. Zdenĕk Nekula, Minister of Agriculture (confirmed), representing the Czech EU Presidency, and European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Dr Stella Kyriakides (invited), regulatory measures can be identified to establish the fast-track biocontrol authorisation procedures that the European Parliament has called for.

The event will be opened by Mr Martin Hlaváček, MEP (Czech Republic, Renew Europe), chaired by Belgian Minister of State and former Prime Minister Prof Mark Eyskens, and addressed by Maria Arena (Belgium, S&D), Martin Hojsík (Slovakia, RE), Tilly Metz (Luxembourg, Greens), an EPP Member of Parliament, and science and industry representatives. Co-organisers are the International Biocontrol Manufacturers Association (IBMA) and the Microbial Plant Protection Products Task Force.

The speakers will address the steps towards a greener European agriculture through the proposed Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation and the four Implementing Regulations on micro-organisms. Speakers are invited to address how today fast-track authorisation for biological control including microbial plant protection products can be realised. Fast-track authorisation of biological control will offer more certainty for farmers, green deal ambition and farm to fork resilience.

Your involvement and insights count. So please register for this Seminar/Webinar through the online registration form by 5th October 2022 noon if you wish to guarantee your presence in the European Parliament, or before 10th October 2022 if you choose to join online.

Yours sincerely,

Please find online the program for this 13th October 2022 High-Level Seminar/Webinar

and 

REGISTER HERE

For further information please contact:

– IBMA Advocacy and Communication Manager Isabelle Pinzauti Babrzynski, isabelle.pinzauti@ibma-global.org, +32 497695842

– Microbial Plant Protection Products Task Force, info@MicrobialPPPTaskForce.eu, +32 2 735 83 96