Assessment of the impact on crop protection by the 'cut-off criteria' in a new regulation for authorisation of plant protection products.

摘要

In January 2009, European Parliament agreed a draft Regulation to replace Council Directive 91/414/EEC. This Regulation, originally proposed in July 2006, maintained risk assessment but also introduced the concept of hazard assessment or 'cut-off criteria' for the approval of active substances. Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD) conducted a series of three impact assessments of the potential effects on active substance availability and agronomy of the initial proposals for the Regulation and of the text agreed in January 2009. Since publication of the first assessment (May 2008) and through the second reading, therehas been a substantive amelioration of many of the proposals. An assessment by PSD of the agreed (but not yet adopted) Regulation (PSD, 2009) indicated that between 26 and 50 active substances are considered most likely to be lost as a result. This paper briefly identifies the potential impact of the original proposals for a new Regulation and of the final Regulation as agreed in January 2009.