Organisations awarded an FPA may be entrusted with preparatory and/or developmental work with respect to below 6 areas of scientific competence:

• Area 1 – Toxicological and metabolism studies and related risk assessment, including the assessment of non-dietary exposure and studies related to investigation of endocrine disrupting properties;
• Area 2 – Residues in food and feed and related risk assessments;
• Area 3 – Chemistry, physico-chemical properties, analytical methods, fate and behaviour in the environment and related risk assessments;
• Area 4 – Ecotoxicological studies and related risk assessments, including studies related to investigation of endocrine disrupting properties;
• Area 5 – Assessment of product efficacy and activity of metabolites and active substances against target organisms.
• Area 6 – Scientific coordination and administrative support for project and processes falling within the scope of EFSA’s activities on plant protection products.

12 types of tasks will be conducted under specific agreements to be agreed between the Authority and the organisations:

• Task 1- Scientific contribution to the evaluation of active substances (excluding those covered by tasks 2 and 3), their related co-formulants, impurities, safeners and synergists and to the drafting of the respective part of the EFSA outputs (applicable to areas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
• Task 2 – Scientific contribution to the evaluation of biocontrol agents (e.g. microorganisms including viruses, novel active substances such as dsRNA/RNAi and peptides), their related coformulants, impurities, safeners and synergists and to the drafting of the respective part of the EFSA outputs. This task also includes the assessment of the identity, biological properties, secondary metabolites and product specifications (applicable to areas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
• Task 3 – Scientific contribution to the drafting of EFSA outputs related to pesticide residues in food and feed treated with plant protection products and to the respective risk assessments (applicable to areas 1, 2, 3, 6);
• Task 4 – Scientific contribution to data collections, data entries in databases and corresponding quality checks, data re-use, literature review, development of IT tools and databases (applicable to areas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);
• Task 5 – Scientific contribution to the drafting of EFSA guidance documents related to the risk assessment of plant protection products, and to related tasks (drafting and implementing protocols, preparation of case studies, feasibility check of draft guidance prior to finalisation) (applicable to areas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
• Task 6 – Scientific contribution to the implementation of prospective and retrospective8 cumulative risk assessments (applicable to areas 1, 2);
• Task 7 – Scientific contribution to assessments of negligible exposure and Art 4.7. Assessments and to assessments of emergency authorisations under Art 53. (applicable to areas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);
• Task 8 – Support in pre-submission and dossier intake activities, completeness checks of dossier and assessment reports, support to the preparation and review of documents (e.g. instructions, plans, reports and presentations), development of regulatory processes, coordination of pesticides-related activities ensuring that the applicable legal framework is applied correctly and that scientific consistency and quality within and between the different outputs is guaranteed (applicable to area 6);
• Task 9 – Contribution to further developments of IUCLID for pesticides applications in close collaboration with ECHA and EFSA (e.g. development and optimisation of automatically generated reports, manuals and tutorials, validation and filtering rules, improve and/or develop data formats, provide interoperability solutions, risk assessment flow from study submission to validated endpoint database) (applicable to areas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);
• Task 10 – Development and implementation of training activities and development of training materials (applicable to areas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);
• Task 11 – Scientific support to the preparation of a proposal for harmonised classification and labelling of a substance or a group of substances (or a proposal for revision thereof) (CLH report) upon request of European Commission as in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2024/2865 (applicable to areas 1, 3, 4);
• Task 12 – Scientific contribution to the evaluation of basic substances in the context of Art 23 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009; scientific assessment of basic substance applications including related data collection/literature search and appraisal for integration into the assessment, and drafting of the EFSA outputs; scientific support to address ad hoc requests for technical assistance concerning basic substances by the European Commission (applicable to areas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).