Sprayers inspection in Venetian Region: experiences, issues and future perspectives

Autor/innen

  • Christiano Baldoin Dept. TeSAF, University of Padua, Agripolis, viale dell’Universita’, 35020 Legnaro Italy

Abstract

Italy fully adopted the 2009 Directive on Sustainable Use of Pesticides (SUD) only in 2014 with the publication of the National Action Plan (NAP), but some regions had started to put the service on immediately after the enter into force of the Directive as well. Venetian Regional administration issued a deliberation early in 2011 in order to re-organise the existing voluntary-based service according to the new legislation, train inspectors and authorize appointed workshops. Between 2011 and 2014, four training coursed were set up and 132 inspectors were licensed; in the following years, 41 testing centres were acknowledged in the Region, in addition to 11 extra-regional centres by mutual acknowledgement.

On the deadline of 26th November 2016, over 25.000 inspection were performed. The present work reports the results of the activity of the inspection service, the Issues and criticalities that emerged about the application of the protocols established by the NAP.

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2018-09-11