March 12th

Open Farm Sunday
Sunday 13th June 2010, 12pm-4pm Details

March 2nd

HDC/STC Second Spring Conference April 19th 2010

November 27th

New EU Commissioner for Agriculture
Romania's Dacian Cioloş will replace Mariann Fischer Boel as EU Commissioner for Agriculture, pending approval from the European Parliament, sources in Brussels have confirmed.   Romania is a very agricultural country of course and Mr Ciolas has much agricultural experience.   There are several bureaucratic stages yet but unlikely to derail this preliminary agreement between the king makers.

July 9th

New School Projects

April 23rd

Spring 2009 Newsletter added

April 22nd

EAST MALLING RESEARCH AND STC RESEARCH FOUNDATION
to work in partnership.

April 14th
Pesticides in food and drink: Pesticide Residues Committee Open Event 2009

New procedures for establishing EC Maximum Residue Levels and Import Tolerances

April 8th
CEO of the Schools Food Trust defends new School meals specifications

April 6th
PSD becomes officially part of the new HSE Chemicals Regulatory Directorate as from April 1st.
The new grouping has a much wider portfolio and will bring together industrial, domestic and agricultural chemical regulatory issues.

DG Sanco have revamped their website and started a reference index of registrations to implement the new regulations.
http://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/protection/evaluation/index_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/sanco_pesticides/public/index.cfm

The HGCA have produced a review of 91/414 implications for cereals and oilseed rape.
Of course the same crop protection products are used in Horticulture. A number of Hort authors are working to try to get similar GAP assessments for Hort crops but as you can imagine it is a very much more complicated task.

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