ÖAIP - Austrian Association for Integrated Plant Protection

The Austrian Association for Integrated Plant Protection is a national platform for discussion and information on integrated plant protection. Members are science, research, universities, agriculture, public services, manufacturer of any kind of plant protection component and special interest groups.

Out of international network and technical experience BLT Wieselburg is the platform contact for pesticide application equipment (PAE).

Tasks at ÖAIP for example get fulfilled by taking part in the managing-committee of ÖAIP and Managing it's team dealing with appplication equipment as e.g. sprayers (available in German only).

The biggest success of the team dealing with application equipment is the revision of the guideline “ÖAIP Gerätefibel” and shortly after publication as guideline "Leitlinie für die technische Ausstattung von Pflanzenschutzgeräten" (available in German only).

This guideline declares a standard for the technical layout of pesticide application equipment. It´s not compulsory to use only such layout of sprayers but this document should assist farmers in case of buying a new one. An appropriate sprayer is an important part in addition to the operator´s experience how to handle pesticides. In addition to international standards (e.g. ISO standards) for sprayers this guideline defines meaningful respectively up to date equipment which is basically optional. These policy should influence safety for the operator, protection of environment and the best biological efficacy. Manufacturers which produce according to the guideline and also got a positive approval of the corresponding type of sprayer can put the “ÖAIP-Gütezeichen”, a label to indicate sprayers, on it.

  • The label “ÖAIP-Gütezeichen” is an optional label of quality.
  • Farmers get benefit in case of considering because they buy sprayers which got evaluated by an independent institute. http://www.oeaip.at/fachinformation/geraetetechnik/ (available in German only)

A checklist assists to evaluate safety in case of take part at public traffic. Therefor following items have to be considered: "Checkliste für verkehrsrechtlich korrekte Pflanzenschutzgeräteausstattung" (available in German only)

Sprayers which offer the „ÖAIP-Gütezeichen“ get listed at http://www.oeaip.at/fachinformation/geraetetechnik-register/ (available in German only)