Pesticide free sensitive areas: Spreading pesticides to sensitive areas - consequences and protective measures

Hosted by PAN Europe and The Greens/EFA.

Where: European Parliament  Room: ASP5E1 + Online Webstreaming

When: 26 October 2022, 15:00-17:00 CET

Language: DE, EN

Programme: The meeting will be chaired by Martin Dermine, Executive Director of PAN Europe.

15.00-15.10: Welcome

• Sarah Wiener

15.10-15.30: Keynotes speeches

• Professor Richardson, Katherine leader of the Sustainability Science Center, Copenhagen University Denmark (online presentation)

15.30-16.00: Session 1: Consequences of spreading pesticides in sensitive areas

• Pesticides on insects in German Natura 2000 areas and consequences for protection by Carsten Brühl, University of Landau, Germany (online)
• Biodiversity and pesticides – a bad mix by Beate Strandberg, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Pesticide drift mitigation measures reduce contamination of non-agricultural areas, but hazards to humans and the environment remain by Koen Hertoge, president of PAN Europe

16.00-16.10: Question and Answer

16.10-16.30: Session 2: Pesticide free as a business model

• European Protected Areas and farmers in partnership for the reduction and the elimination of pesticides” by Baptiste Hottekiet, Director of Pays des Collines Nature Park Representing the Wallonie Federation of Nature Parks and member of the EUROPARC Federation
• Drinking water supply - can best practices show a way to protect drinking water or do we need the SUR banning chemical pesticides in sensitive areas? by Wolfgang Deinlein, IAWR Managing Director, ERM Coalition of European Drinking Water Suppliers

16.30-17.00: Debate

• MEPs Sarah Wiener debating with: speakers in earlier sessions, Organics Europe and the audience.

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