CropLife Europe is delighted to announce that, in 2025, we will host a series of webinars aimed at informing and contributing to the programme discussions for the CropLife Europe Conference in 2026.
Webinar 1 – Formulation analysis techniques in the fight against counterfeit pesticides
Format: Live Webinar || Duration: 2h
Date: 5 March 2025 || Time: 10:00 am CET
This webinar aims to discuss the most advanced formulation analysis techniques in the fight against counterfeit pesticides, followed by discussion between experts from public laboratories specialising in identifying counterfeit pesticides.
Speakers:
Helen Karasali, PhD – Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Greece
Dr. Christoph Czerwenka – Institute for Food Safety Vienna, Austria
Pierre Hucorne – Walloon Agricultural Research Centre, Belgium
Panellists:
Perdo A. López Giner – Environmental Protection Service (Seprona), Guardia Civil, Spain
Moderator: Philippe Baudoin – BASF
This webinar has passed
Webinar 2 – Dissecting the new packaging and packaging waste regulation 2025/40
Format: Live Webinar || Duration: 2h
Date: 3 April 2025 || Time: 09:00-11:00 am CET
Speakers
Mike Jefferson – Verde Research and Consulting Ltd
This webinar aims to present and discuss matters related to the implementation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, including legal pressures from the PPWR with new sustainability criteria for packaging, EPR & PRO obligations, recycling targets for 2030 and beyond.
Internal Webinar for CropLife Europe membership – via invitation
Webinar 3 – The EU’s Vision for a Sustainable Agriculture: Transitioning to a more Sustainable Food Production model whilst Ensuring a Fair Income for EU Farmers
Format: Live Webinar || Duration: Half a working day
Date: End May 2025 || Time: TBC
This webinar aims to discuss the European Commission’s Vision of EU Agriculture to be presented by President Von der Leyen in first 100 days of the new European Commission mandate. It will also highlight the key conclusions following the publication of the IPSOS Farmers Barometer Survey.
Link to register for Webinar 3 – Not available yet
Webinar 4 – Assessing the acceptability of pesticide environmental risks in the context of the agricultural system in which they are used
Format: Live Webinar || Duration: TBC
Date: June, 2025 || Time: TBC
This webinar aims to discuss the future of pesticide ecotoxicological assessment. With the recent European Commission mandates to EFSA to update the Terrestrial Ecotoxicology Guidance (SANCO/10329/2022) and develop a new Guidance to assess potential indirect effects on biodiversity, a fundamental discussion on the future of pesticide ecotoxicological assessment is warranted. The possibility of an increased precautionary approach could lead to significant challenges in how to risk assess and set specific protection goals for in-crop effects, in particular for non-target arthropods, as well as how to assess and set protection goals for indirect effects on biodiversity, for both non-target arthropods, non-target terrestrial plants, and soil organisms.
Link to register for Webinar 4 – Not available yet
Webinar 5 – Opportunities for regulatory streamlining of agricultural technologies in the EU
Format: Live Webinar || Duration: TBC
Date: Q3, 2025 || Time: TBC
This webinar aims to discuss with relevant stakeholders the current challenges of the risk assessment of innovative agricultural technologies and to explore opportunities for its streamlining to allow EU companies to bring products to the market fast and remain competitive.
Link to register for Webinar 5 – Not available yet
Webinar 6 – The protection of IP rights for crop protection technologies in the EU: Driving innovation and ensuring accessibility
Format: Live Webinar || Duration: TBC
Date: Q4, 2025 || Time: TBC
This webinar aims to discuss the protection of IP across agricultural technologies, zooming into specific sectors such as plant biotech. On NGTs, the webinar will be an opportunity to discuss the Commission’s study on IP and compare it with CLE’s report on the topic.
Link to register for Webinar 6 – Not available yet
Webinar 7 – Future of scientific assessment and data requirements – “k-ASCs” approach
Format: Live Webinar || Duration: 1 working day
Date: Q4, 2025 || Time: TBC
The experience with the current regulatory process for conventional/microbial pesticides and the need of introduction of new crop protection innovation in the farmers toolbox to improve Food security and EU agriculture requires sufficient flexibility in the risk assessment framework.
This webinar aims to introduce the Key Agronomic & Safety Characteristics (k-ASCs, pronounced “key asks” being a set of endpoints required to ensure regulatory approval and access to market of new and existing solutions. The k-ASCs can be defined upfront need to be accompanied by clear decision flowcharts on core and higher tier activities which may be addressed through existing data requirements and or/alternative approaches.
Scientifically, k-ASCs introduce sufficient flexibility to allow new agricultural technologies to be considered in existing regulatory frameworks as well as new safety assessment technologies and scientific progress to be accommodated for risk assessment purposes.
Procedurally, K-ASC may be used in an early assessment stage both for first approval or renewals of a variety of the crop protection solutions (Conventional, Precision & Digital, Biopesticide etc…).
Link to register for Webinar 7 – Not available yet