IBMA News

27.01.2010:
Announcing the Appointment of the IBMA Executive Director
At the request of a majority of IBMA members during the General Assembly in October 2008 it was decided that IBMA needed to employ an Executive Director to help in the management and promotion of our Association.
At the General Assembly in October 2009, the Triumvirate was able to announce that a suitable candidate has been found for this position. We are now in a position to confirm that the David Cary has been appointed as Executive Director.
David Cary is an entomologist, coming to us from a member company where as Market Development Manager he had a wide experience in managing and promoting the use of biocontrol products, liaising and lobbying with regulators, supermarkets and other stakeholders.
He is currently employed on a fixed contract basis for one year, until further funding can be obtained to ensure that this position can be retained.
David will work on a number of projects with the assistance of Ulf Heilig (Regulatory Consultant to IBMA), Sara Chatham (General Secretary), and Members of the Executive Committee under the guidance of the President and Triumvirate on projects that have been proposed and approved by the Executive Committee.

07 December 2009:
Five new OECD publications have been recently published and put on the OECD website at:
www.oecd.org/env/pesticides (under What’s new).

These five publications are:

• OECD Guidance Document on Defining Minor Uses of Pesticides [ENV/JM/MONO(2009)39]
• OECD Strategic Approach in Pesticide Risk Reduction [ENV/JM/MONO(2009)38]
• OECD Survey on Countries’ Approaches to the Collection and Use of Agricultural Pesticide Sales and Usage Data: Survey Results [ENV/JM/MONO(2009)37]
• Report of the Seminar on Pesticide Risk Reduction through Spray Drift Reduction Strategies as Part of National Risk Management [ENV/JM/MONO(2009)36]
• Report of the Seminar on Pesticide Risk Reduction through Education / Training the Trainers [ENV/JM/MONO(2009)35]

19/20 October 2009:
ABIM-Lucerne 09, the Annual Meeting of the Biocontrol Industry, Lucerne, Switzerland.
ABIM presentations are available at: http://www.abim.ch/archive/conference2009.html