Good Plant Protection Practice- Status and future

EPPO have since 1987 had an activity on creating guidelines for Good Plant Protection Practise with the overall aim of helping to minimze the risk from using pesticides. This has so fare lead to the creation of 18 specific guidelines on crops of major importance in the EPPO region. The wish is that these guidelines should be used to guide national authorities and advisory services on questions regarding crop protection. Each guideline addresses all major plant protection elements for a given crop this includes using cultural control measures, thresholds, best application technics, minimum necessary dose, etc. EPPO has recognized the need for Good Plant Protection Practise (GPPP) in the context of sustainable agriculture but recognize also the fact that more specific and detailed national or regional guidelines are often needed as the GPP-guidelines are to general to be used for local recommendation. An example of GPP for winter wheat production in Denmark is given in the paper.