EU Environmental scenarios for ERA of non-target organisms

The environmental risk assessment connected with the plant protection product authorisation process needs to predict risks over large geographical areas like the entire EU. However, environmental risks are strongly influenced by several biotic and abiotic factors, which vary in space and time. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop scenarios representaing the diversity of environmental conditions, landscape structure, agricultural practices, and species distributions in EU. The main task of the Institute of Plant Protection at BOKU is the development of a protocol for the vegetation survey which builds the base for the implementation of the coordinated plant surveys in crops and nearby semi-natural habitats in Europe.