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The OECD Pesticide Risk Reduction Project was initiated in 1994 to promote pesticide risk reduction. The objectives of the project are:

• creating strategic opportunities that facilitate risk reduction,
• giving international credibility to risk reduction tools and measures,
• reaching out to other groups, and
• promoting communication on risk reduction.

The Project aims to promote pesticide risk reduction through various activities. It organises discussions, seminars or workshops on topics related to risk reduction so as to facilitate information exchange and to propose strategic options for risk reduction. The Project also creates opportunities for outreach to important stakeholders and fora, and works on ways to evaluate progress in risk reduction efforts.

To date, the Project has addressed the following issues that are closely related to pesticide risk reduction:

• Pesticide Risk Indicators (and underlying pesticide use/sales statistics);
• Integrated Pest Management ;
• Obsolete Pesticides ;
• Economics of Pesticide Risk reduction .

Risk Reduction Seminar Series

Since 2003, the Project has organised a Risk Reduction Seminar series in order to focus on key issues in pesticide risk reduction of concern to OECD governments. The Seminars are intended to provide an opportunity for discussion, learning and information sharing.  To date, seminars on the following topics have been organised.

• Compliance  (Paris, March, 2003)
       Annex 2, Part A
       Annex 2, Part B
• Minor Use (Canberra, November, 2003)
• Container Management (Bonn, June, 2004)
       Brazilian Presentation (João Rando, Instituto Nacional de Processamento de Embalagens Vzias, inpEV)
• Good Labelling (Paris, March, 2005)
• Better Application Technology (Wellington, 2005)
• Pesticide Spray Drift (Paris, 2008) 
       Main part of the report
       Complete report (including presentations - 15 MB)
• Education/Training the Trainers (Mexico, 2007)
       Main part of the report
       Complete report (including presentations - file size 20 MB)

Information Exchange

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