Activities of Hiltrud BREYER related to 2006/0136(COD)
Reports (2)
REPORT Recommendation for second reading on the Council common position for adopting a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC PDF (592 KB) DOC (970 KB)
REPORT Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market PDF (1 MB) DOC (1 MB)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 220 #
Recital 27
(27) The principle of mutual recognition is one of the means of ensuring the free movement of goods within the Community. To avoid anunnecessary duplication of work, to reduce the administrative burden for industry and for Member States and to provide forfacilitate more harmonised availability of plant protection products, authorisations granted by one Member State should be acceptnotified byto other Member States where agricultural, plant health and environmental (including climatic) conditions are comparable. Therefore, the Community should be divided into zones with such comparable conditions in order to facilitate such mutual recognition. However, environmental or agricultural circumstances specific to the territory of a Member State might require that, on application, Member Statesin which the applicant wishes to put the product on the market. Those Member States should be entitled to recognise an authorisation issued by another Member State, amend it or refrain from authorising the plant protection product in their territory, if justified because of specific agricultural circumstancesor environmental circumstances, that may, but do not need to, be limited to that Member State, or if the high level of protection of both human andor animal health andor the environment set out in this Regulation can not be achieved, or to maintain a higher protection level in their territory in line with their National Pesticide Action Plan.
Amendment 231 #
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
For residues which are of toxicological, ecotoxicological, environmental orof all approved substances, there shall be standardised methods in general use for measuring them which are sufficiently sensitive with respect to any technically detectable levels that could be present in any environmental and biological media or be of drinking water relevance, t. The residues shall be methods in general use for measuring themdetectable with the common multi-residue methods as applied by Community reference laboratories. Analytical standards shall be commonly available.
Amendment 247 #
Article 12 – paragraph 2 - subparagraph 2
Within 120 days of the end of the period provided for the submission of written comments, the Authority shall adopt a conclusion in the light of current scientific and technical knowledge using guidance documents available at the time of application on whether the active substance can be expected to meet the approval criteria provided for in Article 4 and shall communicate it to the applicant, the Member States and the Commission and shall make it available to the public. Where a consultation as provided for in the first subparagraph is organised, the 120-day period shall be extended by 60 days.
Amendment 250 #
Article 24 – paragraph 1
1. An active substance complying with the criteria provided for in Article 4 shall be approved as a candidate for substitution if it meets one or more of the additional criteria laid down in point 4 of Annex II. By way of derogation from Article 14(2), the approval may be renewed once or more for a period not exceeding tenfive years.
Amendment 263 #
Article 31 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 265 #
Article 31 – paragraph 3 – point (e)
Amendment 266 #
Article 31 – paragraph 3 – point (f)
Amendment 267 #
Article 31 – paragraph 3 – point (h)
Amendment 318 #
Annex II - point 3.7.1. – 3.7.1.1. – 3.7.1.2.
3.7.1. An active substance, safener or synergist shall only be approved where it, and its transformation products or residues, are not considered to be a persistent organic pollutants (POPs). A substance that fulfils all three of the criteria of the sections below is a POP. 3.7.1.1. Persistence An active substance, safener or synergist fulfils the persistence criterion where there is: - evidence that the time it takes for a degradation of 50 % (DT50) in water is greater than two months, or that its DT50 in soil is greater than six months, or that its DT50 in sediment is greater than six months.; or - evidence that the active substance is otherwise sufficiently persistent to be considered in the context of the POPs Convention; 3.7.1.2. Bioaccumulation An active substance, safener or synergist fulfils the bioaccumulation criterion where there is: - evidence that its bio-concentration factor or bio accumulation factor in aquatic species is greater than 52 000 or, in the absence of such data, that the partition coefficient n-octanol/water (log Ko/w) or the partition coefficient n-octanol/air (log Ko/a) is greater than 5; or - evidence that the active substance, safener or synergist present other reasons for concern, such as high bioaccumulation in other non-target species, high toxicity or ecotoxicity. ; or - evidence based on monitoring data in biota indicating that the bio-accumulation potential of the active substance is sufficient for it to be considered under the POPs Convention.