Chris Hartfield is moving from the NFU horticulture team to take up a new role within the union’s plant health unit.
In his new position as senior regulatory affairs adviser, Hartfield will be focusing on the regulatory processes and their implications for availability and use of plant protection products, as well as the associated relationships with UK regulatory authorities, EU institutions and international regimes.
Hartfield will be working alongside senior plant health adviser Emma Hamer, whose focus is on the NFU member-facing and on-farm aspects of crop protection and plant health policy. He will also continue to be the NFU’s lead around bee health and pollinators.
Hartfield, who has spent 12 years within the horticulture team, explained: “The way in which plant protection products are used and regulated has become more and more significant to NFU members’ businesses and the workload and importance of this policy area has increased greatly.
“Recognising this, the NFU has boosted its resource in the area of crop protection and plant health policy by creating a Plant Health Unit in its Science and Regulatory Affairs team. My new role is part of that increased resource.”
Hayley Campbell-Gibbons has returned from maternity leave to continue in her role as chief horticulture adviser, which Hartfield had been covering in her absence.
The other key members of the NFU horticulture and potatoes team remain Lee Abbey, adviser for field veg and potatoes, and Amy Gray, adviser for fruit, protected crops and ornamentals.
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