First European Workshop on Standardised Procedure for the Inspection of Sprayers in Europe - SPISE -
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Beschreibung
Plant protection is increasingly determined by sustainable management and consumers' expectations regarding the quality and reliability of our food. This plant protection is characterised amongst other things by high quality plant protection products, faultless and reliable plant protection equipment and experienced operators.
Plant protection equipment must be able to dose and distribute products exactly and continue to function faultlessly. In order to achieve this, plant protection equipment must be inspected regularly to identifyand eliminate technical defects.
Regularly inspected sprayers are essential to guarantee:
• Sufficient control of the pest/disease with the minimum possible input of plant protection product
• Lower potential risk of environmental contamination by plant protection products
• Operator safety
The Member States are now concentrating increasingly on securing the faultless and reliable operation of their plant protection equipment by introducing a sprayer inspection.
A European standard which defines technical requirements for sprayer inspections was published at the beginning of 2003 and is to be used as a basis for the inspection of sprayers in the EU.
The aim of this three-day workshop was to familiarise the experts responsible in the Member States with this standard, to become acquainted with and exchange experience concerning existing inspections in the Member States and candidate countries and to establish an approach based on EN 13790, the aim of which is to create a sprayer inspection in Europe of consistent quality.
The conference was attended by experts who are responsible in their countries for establishing, organising, planning and carrying out voluntary or mandatory sprayer inspections as well as those responsible for the approval of inspection workshops and equipment.
It was therefore surprising that about 80 experts from 20 Member States and candidate countries took part in the SPISE workshop. The European Commission was also represented and presented its ideas on possible future European regulations for plant protection equipment.
The presentations were complemented by posters, an exhibition at the BBA of test facilities from European manufacturers/distributors and visits to officially approved inspection workshops which have been granted permission to carry out inspections in accordance with the BBA guidelines. After the workshop, the presentations were made available to the participants in the form of Powerpoint-presentations. The long version of the presentations and the posters are published together with these workshop proceedings, which are distributed to all participants, and which can also be
acquired by any other experts.
The participants welcomed this European initiative of the BBA and spoke for a continuation of such harmonisation work in the area of plant protection equipment inspections.
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Heinz Ganzelmeier
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