3. Soil degradation and exposure GD
• Revision of the GD on
persistence in soil
Requested to be revised based on MS
consultation through the SCFCAH
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4. Soil degradation rate GD
• Opinion for estimating DegT50 in soil
(published)
• Stakeholder consultation report (published)
• GD on DegT50 (cookbook) (Foreseen for 2013
depending on mandate from the Commission)
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5. Soil exposure GD
• Opinion on estimating PECs in soil for annual
crops (published)
• Grant on revision of crop interception values for
FOCUS crops (Foreseen for May 2013)
• Tender for software tools in support of PECs in
soil GD launched. Closing date 18 June 2012
• GD on PECs in soil (cookbook) (Foreseen for
2014)
• Depending on timing for arrival of mandate from the
Commission
• Related to availability of software tools
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6. Soil exposure GD
Background reports
– Two JRC reports on soil weather data (SLA) (published)
– EFSA report on scenario selection (published)
– External report on validation of the guidance (published)
– External report on crop methodology for estimating interception
factors for cereals (published)
– EFSA report on scenario parameterization (published)
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7. Protected crops GD
• Development of a new GD on
emissions from protected crop
systems
Request for guidance based on MS
consultation through the SCFCAH
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8. Protected crops GD
• Stakeholder report on project plan and
Opinion on clustering and ranking
(published)
• PROTEA stakeholder workshop
(published)
• Outline Opinion on guidance for
emissions from protected crops
(published)
• Opinion on clustering and ranking of
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9. Protected crops GD
• Supporting documents on data-collection
– For EU East and South (published)
– For EU North(published)
– Second data-collection Central zone (published)
– Second data-collection Southern zone (published)
– Data-base on protected crop systems (Available – may be published)
• Supporting documents on emissions
– Two external reports on methodology for estimating emissions from
protected crops (published)
– External report on ranking/estimating emissions from protected crop
systems (published)
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10. Protected crops GD
• Preparation of EFSA GD based on Opinion on
clustering and ranking of emissions from
protected crops
– GD (cookbook) (Foreseen for 2013 depending on
mandate from the Commission)
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11. FOCUS Groundwater Opinions
FOCUS Groundwater report (2009) (SANCO/321/2000
rev 2)
• Working document for use released on:
http://focus.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
• Mandate for two Opinions
on the FOCUS report
received from Commission
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12. FOCUS GW Opinion A (Lower tiers)
• For Opinion A it is requested whether:
• the recommendations are consistent with the state of the art of
science in this field for the elementary (tier 1) assessment;
• the proposed procedures for elementary assessments are
scientifically robust enough for the intended use;
• the proposed changes in elementary assessment scenarios and
model parameterisations for elementary assessment are adequate;
• the shells and tools that have been released via the agreed version
control procedure deliver the intended elementary assessment.
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13. FOCUS GW Opinion B (Higher tiers)
• For Opinion B it is requested whether:
• the recommendations are consistent with the state of the art of
science in this field for the tiered approaches and higher tier
assessments;
• the proposed procedures for including higher tier experimental
results in the assessment procedure are scientifically robust and
consistent with a tiered approach;
• the report is presented in a way that facilitates communication of the
methodology for exposure assessment of groundwater;
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14. Timing
• Opinion A on lower tier assessment foreseen for
adoption in February 2013
• Opinion B on higher tier assessment foreseen
for adoption in June 2013
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15. Location of EFSA science
Published scientific documents from EFSA
available on:
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/publications.htm
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