SPISE Working Group
Budget
€0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
6
1.5 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
The Directive 2009/128/EC obliged the Member States to ensure that all Pesticide Application Equipment (PAE) in professional use shall be subject to inspections at regular intervals from 26th November 2016. SPISE (Standardized Procedure for the Inspection of Sprayers in Europe) is a voluntary working group established during the first SPISE workshop in 2004. The participants welcomed the thought that a working group should work on further steps for the harmonization and mutual recognition of inspections of PAE. The goal in the meantime is to achieve a common procedure for risk assessment, quality management procedures, training courses for inspectors and supporting the implementation of a guideline for uniform interpretation/use of the related standards, inspection of brand new sprayers, development of guidelines where no harmonized standard are available at the moment and guideline for adjustment of PAE.
EU Legislative Interests
Especially article 8 of the Directive 2009/128/EC concerning the inspection of Pesticide application equipment; in connection with this also the Directive 2009/127/EC and Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 concerning the requirements to new Pesticides Appilcation Equipment.
Communication Activities
Up to now the SPISE Working Group organized 8 workshops (Braunschweig DE, Straelen DE, Brno CZ, Lana IT, Montpellier FR, Barcelona ES, Athens, GR, Den Haag, NL). Each time about 100 experts from inspection and research institutes, administration and private companies attended in the three-days-workshops. For each workshop conference proceedings have been published. These and further relevant documents are published also on the SPISE website: http://spise.julius-kuehn.de. Also SPISE is organizing smaller meetings with expert from different MS, also to discuss the urgent questing with represenatives from EC.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
SPISE WG is a voluntary initiative. SPISE WG is not a member of any other body.
Organisation Members
http://www.laboratorio-cpt.to.it http://www.cra.wallonie.be/fr https://www.julius-kuehn.de http://www.sklkeuring.com/en https://itap.irstea.fr/ https://www.globalgap.org https://keuringspuittoestellen.ilvo.vlaanderen.be http://piorin.gov.pl/srodki-ochrony-roslin/rejestry https://www.upc.edu/ca
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.