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Sustainable Use of Pesticides

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Thematic Strategy - Development - 1st step

Stakeholders' Conference - 4 November 2002

A Stakeholders' Conference was held on 4 th November 2002. This has involved farmers and growers, NGOs, industry, social partners, public authorities and other interested groups with a view to discussing the communication and establishing a jointly approved priority-list to develop the thematic strategy.

The final version of the Conference Programme ( pdf ~25K) is available.

The Conference was officially opened by Mrs Margot WALLSTRÖM, European Commissioner for the Environment (click here for speech). 

Abstracts for the morning Plenary sessions are available (pdf):   

During the afternoon, work was organised in the following three breakout groups:

 Group 1: Water resources

 Group 2: Integrated Crop Management

 Group 3: National Plans for Hazard, Risk and Dependence Reduction

A Poster session also took place during the day (click here [~110KB] for the Poster Abstracts provided before the Conference).

New ! Complete Report of the Conference (click here for complete Report).