1. Phytosanitary administration RS Status of neonicotionid insecticides for seed treatment in other EU countries Dr. Jernej Drofenik

2. Phytosanitary administration RS Braunschweig meeting of MS related seed treatment and risk to bees. Outcome from the meeting: bee kills in 2008 in south-west of Germany and several other MS, critical public and political responses, suspension of authorisations for insecticidal seed treatment products in DE but different regulatory actions in other concerned MS, incidences und regulatory responses lead to a huge amount of scientific work, obviously access to new data and findings different for authorities,regulatory actions were different, full data exchange amongst regulators needed; harmonised regulatory actions needed under 1107/2009,

3. Phytosanitary administration RS 6-7 October 2010, 17 regulators from FR, SI, NL, CH, AT, EFSA was involved but could not attend, due to time constraints participation restricted to regulators from MS with reported incidences, NL took the lead for developing a GD on seed treatment products covering more areas like groundwater, human health etc., „Lunch to lunch“- meeting, some practical demonstrations on machinery and Heubach test by JKI.

4. Phytosanitary administration RS Meeting on environmental risk assessment and management including honeybees, summarising data about: measurements of dust drift, seed treatment quality, improving machinery for seeding relevance of guttation for regulatory action, Monitoring results. collecting information on risk management in those countries represented in the meeting, develop proposals for further actions for harmonised approaches.

5. Phytosanitary administration RS Treated seed; is an important exposure route for non-target organisms including honeybees, a considerable number of drift trials have been conducted by industry and research institutes; open points e.g. 2D-3D sampling, tox-tests with dust, seed quality of OSR and sugar beet are much better than cereals and maize; vegetables ?, drift reduction properties of seeders must be checked carefully; self-made devices often not effective.

6. Phytosanitary administration RS Treated seed; industry announced to submit quantitative data (90th percentiles for different crops) summarising results from these trials for exposure assessments soon, drift data for poor quality machinery/seed will not be used to avoid high PECs, regulatory actions are needed to preclude use of this bad stuff, otherwise data cannot be used for regulatory risk assessments, additional risk mitigation measures may be needed and must be enforcable especially for seeding operations.

7. Phytosanitary administration RS Guttation new exposure route, industry and research institutes have collected data in field trials; summary report will be made available to regulators, high concentrations of systemic actives were measured in guttation droplets, clear differences between crops, attractiveness for non-target organisms not clear, no clear scientific evidence of severe lasting effects on populations, but significant bee-kills were reported in very few cases, more research needed; preliminary mitigation measures were discussed, overall dust drift more important.

8. Phytosanitary administration RS Treated seed; monitoring studies were conducted in SI, FR, CH, DE, AT for honeybees; in FR for other groups too, no treatment related effects on hives in FR by dust drift, may be due to good quality of seed treatment with “Cruiser”, but bee-kills observed; bees at guttation droplets observed but no mortality; MELISSA-project in AT; reports by bee-keepers; bee-kills observed but no losses of hives; effectiveness of new risk mitigation measures not clear; few bees at guttation droplets were observed but no residues in bees; in DE no comparable effects with 2008 later on; no effects on hives but bee-kills were reported mostly due to dust drift, very few cases for guttation, situation in SI and CH comparable, no incidences in NL.

9. Phytosanitary administration RS Treated seed; currently use of maize seed treated with neonicotinoids allowed in FR, SI, AT, CH and NL; other crops too, risk mitigation measures for seed quality, machines and partly climatic conditions during seeding operations are imposed in all countries, in DE use of maize seed treated with neonicotinoids not allowed; authorisations for other crops; additional risk mitigation measures for insecticides authorised for seed treatment; nearly no new authorisations for seed treatment products at all due to lack of data for environmental risk assessment and legal problems with setting risk mitigation measures.

10. Phytosanitary administration RS Treated seed; more research e.g. on dust drift in different crops, relevance of guttation, effects on others than honeybees is needed, industry data must be made available (dust in April 2011 in DE, guttation not yet) and evaluated by regulatory bodies, urgent need to come to harmonised regulatory approaches in order to facilitate work under 1107/2009, need for a meeting with all MS, EFSA and Commission, GD on seed treatment an important mid term activity, fast information exchange amongst MS very important in any case.

11. Phytosanitary administration RS Actions taken by the Austrian: National seed treatment ordinance published in March 2010 implementation of - monitoring measures for producers of treated seed - control of labelling provisions - sampling and examination of abrasion „Good seed coating practice“ of seed producers was audited Restrictions of the use of insecticide treated seed in maize to Diabrotica and wire worm

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19. Phytosanitary administration RS Risk Mitigation Measures applied in Germany

20. Phytosanitary administration RS Risk Mitigation Measures applied in Germany

21. Phytosanitary administration RS Risk Mitigation Measures applied in Germany

22. Phytosanitary administration RS Risk Mitigation Measures applied in Germany

23. Phytosanitary administration RS Risk Mitigation Measures applied in Germany

24. Phytosanitary administration RS Risk management in France

25. Phytosanitary administration RS Risk management in France

26. Phytosanitary administration RS Risk management in NL No incidents in NL. Risk mitigation measures for seed: maize peas

27. Phytosanitary administration RS Risk management in NL MAIZE Measures to protect bees in Legal Instructions for Use … … on seed treatment product: Treated seed max. dust of 0.75 g dust per 100.000 seeds (Heubach-method). … on bags with treated seed: Before sowing: Do not transfer dust from bag into sowing machine During sowing: Do not sow during strong wind and sow the recommended amount of seed. When using a pneumatic sowing machine, deflectors must lead the air stream towards or into the ground.

28. Phytosanitary administration RS Risk management in NL MAIZE Measures to protect bees in Legal Instructions for Use … … on seed treatment product: Treated seed max. dust of 0.75 g dust per 100.000 seeds (Heubach-method). … on bags with treated seed: Before sowing: Do not transfer dust from bag into sowing machine During sowing: Do not sow during strong wind and sow the recommended amount of seed. When using a pneumatic sowing machine, deflectors must lead the air stream towards or into the ground.

29. Phytosanitary administration RS Conclusions; Similar risk mitigation measures by MS.