Productos Fitosanitarios y sus Residuos
La Comisión Técnica de Productos Fitosanitarios y sus Residuos (PPR) proporciona asesoramiento científico sobre la evaluación del riesgo de los plaguicidas para los operarios, los trabajadores, los consumidores y el medio ambiente. La Comisión Técnica elabora y revisa documentos de orientación en materia de evaluación del riesgo de los plaguicidas. Su labor contribuye a la evaluación de las sustancias activas utilizadas en los plaguicidas que corre a cargo de los Estados miembros ponentes y que revisa el personal de la EFSA.
Los miembros de la Comisión Técnica PPR son científicos procedentes de toda Europa con experiencia en:
- sustancias activas: químicas y microbiológicas (virus, bacterias, hongos, etc.)
- propiedades físicoquímicas (de los productos fitosanitarios y sus sustancias activas)
- métodos de análisis (de los productos fitosanitarios y sus residuos)
- toxicología y toxicología normativa
- exposición no alimentaria y evaluación del riesgo (de los productos fitosanitarios)
- exposición alimentaria y evaluación del riesgo (de los residuos de productos fitosanitarios en los alimentos y los piensos)
- destino y comportamiento ambiental (de los productos fitosanitarios)
- ecotoxicología
- ecología y dinámica de poblaciones
- exposición ecológica/ambiental y evaluación del riesgo.
Panel Members
Miembros de la Comisión Técnica PPR, 2018-2024
Plenary meetings
Pesticides peer-review experts meetings
The Pesticides Peer Review Unit holds expert consultations on scientific and technical issues related to the peer review of a substance. They involve scientific experts nominated by Member States. These experts represent the following organisations:
- Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (Austria)
- Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment (Belgium)
- Scientific Institute of Public Health (Belgium)
- Sciensano (Belgium)
- Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, Risk Assessment Center on Food Chain (Bulgaria)
- Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (Bulgaria)
- Croatian Agency for Agriculture and Food (Croatia)
- Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health (Croatia)
- Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment (Cyprus)
- Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture (Czech Republic)
- National Institute of Public Health (Czech Republic)
- Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark, Environmental Protection Agency (Denmark)
- Estonian Agricultural Board (Estonia)
- Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency (Finland)
- National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (France)
- French Ministry of Agriculture and Food (France)
- Federal Environmental Agency (Germany)
- Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (Germany)
- Julius Kühn-Institute (Germany)
- Federal Institute of Risk Assessment (Germany)
- Benaki Phytopathological Institute (Greece)
- Ministry of Rural Development and Food (Greece)
- National Food Chain Safety Office (Hungary)
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Pesticide Registration and Control Divisions (Ireland)
- Ministry of Health (Italy)
- Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italy)
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy)
- ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco (Italy)
- Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy)
- State Plant Protection Service (Latvia)
- State Plant Service under the Ministry of Agriculture (Lithuania)
- Administration des services techniques de l'agriculture (Luxembourg)
- Board for the Authorisation of Plant Protection Products and Biocides (Netherlands)
- Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (Netherlands)
- Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Norway)
- Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Poland)
- National Institute of Public Health - National Institute of Hygiene (Poland)
- Institute of Environmental Protection – National Research Institute (Poland)
- Direcção-Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária (Portugal)
- National Institute of Public Health (Romania)
- Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Romania)
- National Institute for Research and Development in Environmental Protection (Romania)
- Ministry of the Environment, National Agency for Environmental Protection (Romania)
- Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic, Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (Slovakia)
- Public Health Authority of the Slovak Republic (Slovakia)
- Central Controlling and Testing Institute in Agriculture (Slovakia)
- Water Research Institute (Slovakia)
- University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Kosice (Slovakia)
- Institute of Apiculture (Slovakia)
- Agricultural Institute of Slovenia (Slovenia)
- National Institute of Public Health (Slovenia)
- Slovenian Institute of Hop Research and Brewing (Slovenia)
- Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment, Administration of the Republic of Slovenia for food safety, veterinary sector and plant protection (Slovenia)
- Swedish Food Agency (Sweden)
- Swedish Chemicals Agency (Sweden)
In line with the Decision of the Executive Director of the European Food Safety Authority on Competing Interest Management the submission of an Annual Declaration of Interest (ADoI) is compulsory for Peer Review Governmental Experts.
Expert consultations are divided into the following groups (each consultation involves a selection of experts from the relevant list of members):
Physical & Chemical Properties
Mammalian Toxicology
For minutes related to the Endocrine Disruptors properties please refer also to the meeting minutes in the Ecotoxicology section.
Residues
Fate and Behaviour
Ecotoxicology
For minutes related to the Endocrine Disruptors properties please refer also to the meeting minutes in the Mammalian Toxicology section.
Micro-organisms
Dates and draft discussion points
Redes
¿Qué son las redes de la Autoridad Europea de Seguridad Alimentaria (EFSA)?
Las redes de la EFSA consisten en organizaciones de los Estados miembros de la UE, designadas a escala nacional, que cuentan con experiencia en los ámbitos cubiertos por la red. También se podrá invitar a participar en el trabajo de las redes de la EFSA a representantes de la Comisión y de otras organizaciones (incluso de terceros países) que poseen experiencia técnica específica.
Las redes están presididas por la EFSA y cuentan con el apoyo de las unidades correspondientes de la EFSA. Su objetivo constrabsiste en facilitar la cooperación científica en el ámbito cubierto por la misión de la EFSA mediante:
- la coordinación de actividades,
- el intercambio de información,
- el desarrollo y la ejecución de proyectos conjuntos,
- y el intercambio de conocimientos especializados y de buenas prácticas.
- Decisión relativa a la constitución y el funcionamiento de las redes europeas de organizaciones científicas que operan en el ámbito comprendido en el cometido de la Autoridad (35,46 KB)
Pesticide Steering Network (PSN)
In September 2008, EFSA set up the Pesticide Steering Network. It was established to manage and plan the overall pesticide risk assessment and consider ways to further streamline the process. The main goals of the network are to:
- plan and monitor the risk assessment process;
- integrate the risk assessment and MRL setting processes;
- coordinate with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA);
- give advice on the prioritisation in the development and the updating of risk assessment guidance documents.
- Terms of referencelast updated: 15 April 2025
- List of memberslast updated: 18 March 2025
Pesticide Steering Network – IUCLID sub-group
- Terms of referencelast updated: 15 April 2025
- network_and_subgroups_memberslast updated: 29 April 2025
Closed networks
Pesticide Steering Committee sub working group Bee Calculator
The members of the PSC sub working group Bee Calculator were nominated by the Member States participating in the PSC.
Pesticide Steering Committee sub working group MRL procedures
The members of the PSC sub working group MRL procedures were nominated by the Member States participating in the PSC.
Pesticide Steering Committee sub working group Risk Assessment on Bees
The members of the PSC sub working group Risk Assessment on Bees were nominated by the Member States participating in the PSC.
Pesticide Steering Network on consultation for the corrigendum of the Aquatic Guidance Document (EFSA PPR Panel, 2013)
The members of the Pesticide Steering Network on consultation for the corrigendum of the Aquatic Guidance Document (EFSA PPR Panel, 2013) were nominated by the Member States participating in the PSN, including two participants on behalf of EFSA PPR panel.
Pesticide Steering Network on consultation on Draft Guidance of the PPR Panel on Residue Definition for Dietary Risk Assessment
The members of the Pesticide Steering Network on consultation on Draft Guidance of the PPR Panel on Residue Definition for Dietary Risk Assessment were nominated by the Member States participating in the PSN, including a participant on behalf of EFSA PPR panel.
Pesticide Steering Network sub working group IUCLID HYPERCARE
The members of the PSN sub working group IUCLID HYPERCARE were nominated by the Member States participating in the PSN and by the applicants owners of the substances included within the scope of the EFSA IUCLID HYPERCARE programme.
- Terms of reference last updated: 8 October 2021
- List of members last updated: 21 May 2021
Grupos de trabajo
Common metabolites to several pyrazole active substances
Cumulative Risk Assessment (CRA) of pesticides
Effect models in environmental risk assessment
Endocrine Disruptors
Environmental Risk Assessment for terrestrial non-target organisms (ERA)
Methodologies in assessing long-term toxicity and carcinogenicity of plant protection products
Microbial pesticides
Neurotoxicity
QIVIVE DNT IVB
Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA)
Update of OPEX Guidance and calculator
Waiving dog studies
Grupos de trabajo cerrados
Acetamiprid and flupyradifurone
Adverse Outcome Pathways AOP
Aged Soil Adsorption
Amphibian reptile opinion
Aquatic ecotoxicology
Azole-resistant Aspergillus – risk factors, prevention and control
Bee Guidance Revision
Bee risk assessment
BEEHAVE evaluation
Chitosan
Consultation Group on endocrine disruption guidance
- EFSA has invited members of the Consultation Group to submit declarations of interest but, with the exception of stakeholder experts acting in a personal capacity, members are not obliged to do so.
For a full list of EFSA Member State and stakeholder experts taking part in the Consultation Group, please see here.