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For more information see: Notes This presentation is based on the graphics and data from the Pesticides Forum Annual Report It provides users with all the information in one easily accessible place and in a format which reflects the structure of the UK National Action Plan. For the full context, please see the supporting text in the 2013 annual report which is published online at this link:  forum/Focus/pesticides-forum-annual-reports forum/Focus/pesticides-forum-annual-reports Some graphs may be updated with more recent data as this becomes available during the year.

For more information see: Pesticides in the UK Pesticides Forum annual report Impacts and sustainable use PPT of data available

For more information see: Contents About the Pesticides Forum Indicators of Sustainable Use Summary and future plans Other links – Protecting Human Health Protecting Human Health – Availability of Products and Techniques Availability of Products and Techniques – Protecting Water Protecting Water – Protecting Biodiversity Protecting Biodiversity – Best Practice in Amenity Use Best Practice in Amenity Use – Best Practice in Amateur (Home and Garden) Use Best Practice in Amateur (Home and Garden) Use To return to this page at any point click on Pesticides Forum logo

For more information see: About the Pesticides Forum Members, objectives and topics covered

For more information see: Pesticides Forum Membership Organisations Users, Advisors, Manufacturers, Environment, Consumers ADAS The Organic Sector Advisory Committee on Pesticides (ACP) Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA) Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) The Amenity Forum BASIS (Registration) Ltd Farmcare Country Land & Business Association (CLA) Crop Protection Association (CPA) Environment Agency (EA) Fresh Produce Consortium/British Retail Consortium The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) Linking the Environment & Farming (LEAF) National Farmers’ Union (NFU) National Farmers’ Union Scotland (NFUS) Pesticide Action Network (PAN-UK) Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) SUSTAIN Unite Voluntary Initiative (VI) Wildlife & Countryside LINK (WCL) Women’s Food & Farming Union (WFU)

For more information see: Pesticides Forum Observers Health & Safety Executive (HSE) Department of Agriculture & Rural Development Northern Ireland (DARDNI) Department of Health (DoH) Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) Food Standards Agency (FSA) Natural England (NE) Scottish Government Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division The Welsh Government (WG) Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

For more information see: Aims and Objectives Aims: To oversee work under the UK National Action PlanUK National Action Plan To monitor the effects of policies, laws and other initiatives that affect or are affected by the use of pesticides, and To offer advice to Ministers and stakeholders To provide a forum for exchanging views, and where possible to allow our stakeholders to come to a general agreement Specific Objectives: Communications Monitoring impacts Knowledge transfer

For more information see: Objectives: Communications To promote effective ways of helping all those involved in selling, supplying, storing, using and disposing of pesticides and pesticide waste products to use technologies and techniques which: – limit the need to use these products (and the risks that can arise from using them) in a way which is consistent with sustainable production and the control of pests, weeds and diseases; and – share best practice between all farming systems, whether organic systems using pesticides or other control options To monitor, review and improve the quality and relevance of information available to all those involved in selling, supplying, storing, using and disposing of pesticides and pesticide waste products To prepare and publish an annual report of our activities and maintain a close working relationship with the Advisory Committee on Pesticidesannual reportAdvisory Committee on Pesticides

For more information see: Objectives: Impacts and KT Monitoring impacts To consider how to most effectively monitor all impacts arising from the use of pesticides (including using indicators), and communicate these findings to Ministers, our stakeholders and the public Knowledge transfer To monitor pesticide-related research and development and aim to inform funding organisations of any significant gaps in the programme To promote the most effective and practical ways for sharing best practice in technology and research and development, by encouraging discussions between researchers and research funders, and between all those involved in selling, supplying, storing, using and disposing of pesticides

For more information see: Objectives: Impacts and KT Monitoring impacts To consider how to most effectively monitor all impacts arising from the use of pesticides (including using indicators), and communicate these findings to Ministers, our stakeholders and the public Knowledge transfer To monitor pesticide-related research and development and aim to inform funding organisations of any significant gaps in the programme To promote the most effective and practical ways for sharing best practice in technology and research and development, by encouraging discussions between researchers and research funders, and between all those involved in selling, supplying, storing, using and disposing of pesticides

For more information see: Key topics covered in 2012/2013 Updates on Sustainable Use Directive implementation and National Action Plan development; wider Defra initiatives Impacts of EU legislation Water: – Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF); Options for Water; Field visit – catchment management in action Amenity sector: – Amenity Forum update; the Amenity Assured Standard, the NASOR scheme; letter to Local Authority Chief Executives Amateur sector: – The Amateur Liaison Group’s key priorities; recycling home garden pesticides containers; the amateur user habits survey Integrated Pest Management (IPM): – IPM and decision trees; ENDURE and PURE; developing IPMPs; Biopesticides review Impact of reduced availability of pesticides Joint VI and Pesticides Forum working group on grassland farming

For more information see: National Action Plan R&D Assurance schemes Regulation

For more information see: Role of PF and NAP Ensure appropriate regulation and compliance Encourage current best practice Monitor progress (indicators) Identify and promote even better practice – Regulation – Industry initiatives – Research and Development Short-life working groups

For more information see: UK National Action Plan Objectives, targets, measures and timetables Objective: to ensure pesticides used sustainably, through promotion of risk reduction Priority areas: protection of water; better practice in amateur and amenity sectors, development and adoption of integrated approaches Targets include, maintaining current high levels of training and testing of application equipment and meeting objectives of Water Framework Directive Measures will include items listed in the National Action Plan

For more information see: NAP – main headings Training – Improving standards – Operators (R), advisers Sales – storekeeper certification Information and awareness raising – Consumer and health protection, wildlife protection Inspection of application equipment – Sprayer testing (R)- every 3 years from 2020; Annual (Assurance Schemes) Aerial application – very limited, permitted application only Protection of aquatic environment and drinking water Risk in specific areas – Protected areas, amenity Handling & storage, packaging – Sub-group & communication Integrated Pest Management (IPM) – encourage and support uptake – Baselines, sectoral needs, IPM Plans Indicators – Usage data (R), needs

For more information see: Indicators of Sustainable Use.

For more information see: Part 1: Training.

For more information see: Figure 1: User practice: National Register of Sprayer Operators (NRoSO) (number of members & % sprayed area) Source: NRoSO * no data on sprayed area

For more information see: Figure 2: User Practice: BASIS professional register (number of members) Source: BASIS * 2012 figure as at 31 Jan 2013

For more information see: Part 2: Sales.

For more information see: Figure 3: BASIS Nominated Storekeeper (NSK) / Amenity Storekeeper (Amenity NSK) training courses: number of passes Source: BASIS

For more information see: Figure 4: BASIS Guardian Certificate in Garden Care qualification: number of passes Source: BASIS

For more information see: Part 3: Information and awareness raising.

For more information see: Figure 5: Consumer protection: Maximum Residues Levels compliance % of fruit and vegetable samples tested and found with one or more residues above the MRL Source: Data from Pesticides Residues Committee (PRC) and Defra Expert Committee on Pesticides Residues in Food (PRiF) reports

For more information see: Figure 6: Indicator - Human health protection: PIAP investigations Source: HSE

For more information see: Figure 7: Pesticide poisoning incidents investigated by the Wildlife Incident Investigation Scheme (WIIS) Source: HSE

For more information see: Part 4: Inspection of application equipment.

For more information see: Figure 8: User practice: National Sprayer Testing Scheme (NSTS) (number of sprayer tests and % sprayed area) Source: NSTS/AEA

For more information see: Figure 9: Membership of crop assurance schemes on holdings sampled in the United Kingdom Pesticide Usage Survey Source: Fera Pesticide Usage Surveys

For more information see: Part 5: Aerial application Indicators: 352 permits issued in 2013.

For more information see: Part 6: Measures to protect the aquatic environment and drinking water.

For more information see: report data (Figure 10): Surface water Drinking Water Protected Areas (DrWPAs) in England and Wales where assessments indicate pesticides are putting WFD Article 7 compliance at risk Source: Environment Agency 15% at risk of non- compliance – metaldehyde – MCPA – chlorotoluron – mecoprop-P – carbetamide – 2,4-D – propyzamide

For more information see: Figure 10: Drinking Water Protection Areas (DrWPAs) in Scotland at risk of failing to meet Article 7 objectives for pesticides in 2013

For more information see: Figure 11. Pesticides causing EQS failures from Surface Water Monitoring in Northern Ireland Source: Northern Ireland Environment Agency

For more information see: Figure 12. Groundwater bodies in England and Wales failing Water Framework Directive (WFD) objectives due to pesticides Source: Environment Agency

For more information see: Figure 13. Groundwater sampling locations where one or more pesticides have been detected at levels which threaten to exceed 0.1 micrograms per litre

For more information see: Figure 14. Substantiated category 1 and 2 incidents involving agricultural and non-agricultural pesticides in England and Wales Source: Environment Agency

For more information see: Part 7: Reduction of risk in specific areas.

For more information see: Figure 16. Tonnes of herbicides, fungicides and insecticides applied in major amenity sectors Figure 17. Relative weight of amenity pesticide applied in major amenity sectors in the UK in 2102 Source: Pesticides Usage Survey – Amenity Pesticides in the UK 2012

For more information see: Part 8: Handling and storage of pesticides and treatment of their packaging and remnants.

For more information see: Figure 18. Comparison of number of Cross Compliance (SMR 9 and SMR 11) breaches and breach severity Sources: Rural Payments Agency; Scottish Government; Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Northern Ireland; Rural Inspectorate Wales Note: 2012 information relating to SMR 11 covers more than just pesticides breaches and thus is not strictly comparable to the previous two years.

For more information see: Figure 19. Disposal of rinsings from empty amateur concentrate containers Source: Pesticides user habits survey (PS2817)

For more information see: Figure 20. Disposal of RTU and concentrates with pesticides still in the container Source: Pesticides user habits survey (PS2817)

For more information see: Part 9: Low pesticide input management, including Integrated Pest Management (IPM).

For more information see: Figure 21. Cumulative numbers of active substances and products approved as biopesticides in UK Source: CRD

For more information see: Figure 23. Area of organic land use in UK Figure 24. Total of in-conversion and organic land use in UK Source: Defra Organic Statistics 2012

For more information see: Figure 25. Populations of selected farmland bird species in the UK Source: Defra/RSPB/BTO/JNCC

For more information see: Figure 26. Populations of all bird species in the UK Source: Defra/RSPB/BTO/JNCC

For more information see: Figure 28. Areas of different agri-environment options used by farmers to provide valuable food wildlife resources and mitigate impacts of crop inputs on arable farmland Source: Natural England

For more information see: Part 10: Indicators.

For more information see: Figure 29. Estimated annual pesticide usage for all crops in Great Britain/UK Source: Fera Pesticide Usage Survey

For more information see: Figure 30. UK cropped areas Sources: Defra June Agricultural Survey; Welsh Government; Department for Agriculture and Rural Development, Northern Ireland

For more information see: Figure 31. UK pesticide average inputs per crop (including soil sterilants) Source: Fera Pesticide Usage Survey

For more information see: Figure 32. UK pesticide average inputs for wheat Source: Fera Pesticide Usage Survey

For more information see: Figure 33. UK herbicide use on wheat Source: Fera Pesticide Usage Survey

For more information see: Figure 34. UK fungicide use on wheat Source: Fera Pesticide Usage Survey

For more information see: Figure 35. UK insecticide use on wheat Source: Fera Pesticide Usage Survey

For more information see: Figure 36. UK molluscicide use on wheat Source: Fera Pesticide Usage Survey

For more information see: Summary and future plans.

For more information see: Summary - usage Use of pesticides not adversely impacting UK health or environment – statutory and voluntary controls effective, but – scope to reduce risks further (e.g. water pollution) Pesticide usage affected by season, product availability, resistance, commodity prices – wet weather conditions increased usage in 2012 – application technology continues to improve precision of application Training of pesticide users increasing – NRoSO, BASIS, Amenity Assured – improvements in Amenity and for garden centre staff

For more information see: Summary – focus for improvement Further reduce water bodies at risk from pesticides with added focus on grassland users Key bird species continue to decline More recycling of packaging Reduce misuse and/or abuse Improve users understanding of risk and risk mitigation in both the amenity and the home and garden sectors

For more information see: Summary – future plans Protecting water: - River Basin Management Plans (2 nd round in 2015); WFD Improving practice in amateur and amenity sectors: - new guidance anticipated Promotion of integrated pest management (IPM): - development of mechanisms and measures - promotion of IPM Plans Training and certification: - Grandfather rights end November 2015 Application equipment testing: - compulsory from November 2016 Monitoring and assessing - impacts of other events with implications for pesticides use and cropping

For more information see: Priorities for 2013/14 Protecting water – Metaldehyde, oilseed rape herbicides Improving standards in specific sectors – Amenity; home and garden; grassland/forage Promotion of IPM and IPM Plans Pesticides Forum will work with member organisations and other stakeholders to help further reduce the risk to human health and the environment

For more information see: Acknowledgements Member Organisations of the Pesticides Forum and many others – provide data and analysis used in Indicators