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Temporary Dataset Download: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Data & PERSAM software tool

Dataset Access Expires on

20-October-2021

Notifications

  1. The data produced in EFSA Project are made available for research and development purposes. Preparation of applications for regulatory purposes are considered as a development purposes.
  2. The data released, produced in EFSA Project, were elaborated by Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) and by the experts of EFSA PPR FATE Working Group(WG), through the processing of data available at the European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC), Harmonized World Soil Database, Worldclim database, Capri database. The data are the result of a JRC internal research activity and of the PPR WG experts activity; the underlying model and resulting data still need to be validated and verified; no formal quality check on the data has been made yet. The JRC, on behalf of the Commission, does not accept any liability whatsoever for any error, missing data or omissions in the data, or for any loss or damage arising from its use. The JRC, on behalf of the Commission, agrees to provide the data free of charge but is not bound to justify the content and values contained in the databases.
  3. The permission to use the data specified above is granted on condition that, under no circumstances are these data passed to third parties. An exception to this is when the data is use for preparation of applications for regulatory purposes where the data may be submitted to EFSA and competent regulatory bodies.
  4. The user agrees to:
       a) Make proper reference to the source of the data when disseminating the results to which this agreement relates;
       b) Participate in the verification of the data (e.g. by noting and reporting any errors or omissions discovered to the JRC).

Notification regarding the PERSAM tool:

  1. By downloading and using all or any portion of the PERSAM software tool, you accept the terms and conditions of the PERSAM Version 1.0 License Agreement .

Download the data:

Version 1.1 (New version), Published: November 2012 , Size: 200 MB
Version 1.0 (Old Version), Published: May 2011, Size: 136 MB

Data in relation to "Scenario Selection and Scenario Parameterisation for Permanent Crops and Row Crops on Ridges in Support of Predicting Environmental Concentrations of Plant Protection Products and Their Transformation Products in Soil" (includes the readme file), Published 26 August 2015, Size ca 308MB

(new 24 January 2018) The new data set on 'permanent crops' was made available by the EFSA working group on PECs in soil in alignment with the EFSA guidance document for predicting environmental concentrations of active substances of plant protection products and transformation products of these active substances in soil. See documentation. Data: zipped-file PermanentCrops_EFSA_data_2017_12_12_final

 

Download the PERSAM software tool and User Manual:

(new 04 May 2021) New version v3.0.6 of the PERSAM tool  PERSAM v3.0.6 (only executable): The new release PERSAM v3.0.6 contains a bug fix: there were problems with starting the calculation for projects imported using the ‘Import project(s)’ functionality. In PERSAM v3.0.6 this is solved and the issue does not occur anymore. The User Manual remains unchanged, so the one for version v3.0.5 applies.

(new 09 March 2021): PERSAM v3.0.5 (executable + User manual). The new features of PERSAM v 3.0.5 are found in section 1.2.2 on page 9 of the updated PERSAM user manual (version 3.0.5) that comes with the tool. Updates of previous versions of the PERSAM tool incorporated into v3.0.5 can be found in section 1.2. from page 6 to 9 of the user manual(v.3.0.5).

(new 27 April 2020): PERSAM v3.0.1 (executable + User manual). The new features of PERSAM v 3.0.1 are found in section 1.2.2 on page 8 of the updated PERSAM user manual (version 3.0.1), that comes with the tool.

(new 18 December 2019): PERSAM v3.0.0 (executable + User manual). The new features of PERSAM v 3.0.0 are found in section 1.2 on page 7 of the updated PERSAM user manual, that comes with the tool.

(new 31 January 2017) : PERSAM v2.0.1 + PERSAM User Manual 2.0.1. A minor revision of the PERSAM tool and manual: from version 2.0.0 to 2.01. What is new is documented in section 1.3 on page 8 of the updated PERSAM user manual version 2.0.1:

 

  • A shortcut to PERSAM after installation
  • In the 'Configure custom calculations' window, the following items are changed:
    • Use custom calculation is changed into 'Use Kom custom calculation' and 'Use DegT50 custom calculation'
    • The text on the buttons are changed into 'Set Kom' and 'Set DegT50'
  • Extra info about the automatic report generation available in the help file

 

PERSAM v2.0.0 + PERSAM User Manual 2.0.0 (12 July 2016) New tool developed in the following context: EFSA is launching a public consultation starting in July 2016 on an update of the draft EFSA Guidance Document for predicting environmental concentrations of active substances of plant protection products and transformation products of these active substances in soil.  The guidance published in April 2016 has been updated with additional approaches in particular for exposure assessment in soil for permanent crops. The PERSAM software tool has also been updated following the public consultation last year. The new features of PERSAM v 2.0.0 are found in section 1.3 on page 8 of the updated draft PERSAM user manual (version 2.0.0), that comes with the tool.) Published: 12 July 2016, Size: 220 MB,

 

PERSAM v1.0.3 + PERSAM User Manual 1.0.3 (Fixing bugs from version 1.0.2 documented in the download package) Published: 12 February 2015, Size: 211 MB,

PERSAM v1.0.2 + PERSAM User Manual 1.0 Published: July 2014, Size: 211 MB

 

More information

This webpage was prepared in the context of the collaboration agreement between JRC and EFSA. It contains soil, weather and crop data collected by JRC and organised by EFSA for the purpose of this website. The site also hosts the software tool PERSAM for Predicting Environmental Concentrations in soil in support of the: "EFSA Guidance Document for predicting environmental concentrations of active substances of plant protection products and transformation products of these active substances in soil". EFSA was asked by the European Commission to prepare this Guidance Document.

Common properties for the maps are:

Format: ESRI ARCRASTER ASCII
Reference system: ETRS 89 LAEA
Rows: 5900
Columns: 4600
Min. X 1500000.0
Max. X 7400000.0
Min. Y 900000.0
Max. Y 5500000.0
Resolution: 1000.0
Reference unit: meter

Documentation on the data:

Documentation in relation to the PERSAM software tool:

  • PERSAM User Manual (Version 1.0.3) (Belonging to PERSAM software tool 1.0.3; available from 12.2.2015)
  • PERSAM User Manual (Version 1.0) (Belonging to PERSAM software tool 1.0.2; available from July 2014)
  • The PERSAM tool is for the moment only intended for use in the context of the public consultation of the EFSA draft Guide Document on PECs in soil and is currently not intended for regulatory use in support of (EC) regulation 1107/2009

 

Helpdesk - Contacts

  • For additional information on the data, please contact Mark.EGSMOSE(at)efsa.europa.eu, European Food Safety Authority.
  • For any technical problem with the data, please contact EC ESDAC <EC-ESDAC@ec.europa.eu>, JRC.
  • For any problem or question related to the PERSAM tool, please contact marc.van-liedekerke(at)ec.europa.eu, JRC.

Reference of source (Citations) :

  1. Hiederer, R. EFSA Spatial Data Version 1.1 Data Properties and Processing. 2012. Publications Office of the European Union EUR 25546, ISBN 978-92-79-27004-8 , doi:10.2788/54453.
  2. Gardi, C., Panagos, P., Hiederer, R., Montanarella, L., Micale, F. Report on the Activities Realized in 2010 within the Service Level Agreement between JRC and EFSA, as a Support of the FATE and ECOREGION Working Groups of EFSA PPR. Publications Office of the European Union EUR 24744, ISBN: 978-92-79-19521-1 , DOI: 10.2788/61018

Technical Assistance about the Data

Users are recommended to use the “ASCII to RASTER” function in order to transform the datasets such as Bulk Density , water content etc. The output data type should be FLOAT. Find below some Print screens of the recommended operation:

STEP 2: ASCII to RASTER Function. The output data type should be FLOAT!

STEP 3: Results

  1. Hiederer, R. EFSA Spatial Data Version 1.1 Data Properties and Processing. 2012. Publications Office of the European Union EUR 25546, ISBN 978-92-79-27004-8 , doi:10.2788/54453.
  2. Gardi, C., Panagos, P., Hiederer, R., Montanarella, L., Micale, F. Report on the Activities Realized in 2010 within the Service Level Agreement between JRC and EFSA, as a Support of the FATE and ECOREGION Working Groups of EFSA PPR. Publications Office of the European Union EUR 24744, ISBN: 978-92-79-19521-1 , DOI: 10.2788/61018

More Information and Helpdesk: EC ESDAC <EC-ESDAC@ec.europa.eu>

Joint Research Centre - European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC)
ID 47681
Date - Time Wed, 10/06/2021 - 12:01
Name of User Viktorija Zagorska
Organization LLU
Type of Organization Research Organization
-- Other
E-mail viktorija.zagorska@llu.lv
Purpose I would like to calculate the teoretical ammount of residuals in soil after application of PPP per season
Notes

When making reference to the ESDAC

  • Panagos P., Van Liedekerke M., Jones A., Montanarella L., “European Soil Data Centre: Response to European policy support and public data requirements”; (2012) Land Use Policy, 29 (2), pp. 329-338. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.07.003
  • European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC), esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu, European Commission, Joint Research Centre