16 Amendments of Piernicola PEDICINI related to 2017/2128(INI)
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas transparency in all stages of the approval procedure is insufficient and leads to negative effects on health and the environment and provokes public mistrust in the system regulating pesticide substances; whereas the transparency of the authorisation related activities of competent authorities is also unsatisfactorydeeply unsatisfactory, with stakeholders generally not included in the consultation procedures related to the risk assessment and the public not provided with explanations on the final risk management decisions;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas authorisations of plant protection products, which take place exclusively at national level, often face delays in risk management decisions; whereas in consequence this leads in some cases to an increase of authorisations granted by Member States under derogation, making use of Article 53 of the Regulation; whereas there are cases where such derogations are used against the initial intention of the legislator as a breach to bypass the regular authorisation procedure;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Welcomes the choice of a hazard- based evaluation approach as opposed to a purely risk-based approach; nonetheless notes that it needs improvement in relation to the harmonisation of criteria and procedures, as well as the practical work of national and EU authorities;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Emphasises that the Regulation should better reflect the need to promote agricultural practices based on integrated pest management, including by stimulating the development of low-risk substances and, wherever possible, to consider non- chemical and natural methods of plant protection;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is concerned that the harmonisation of guidelines in fields like ecotoxicology or environmental fate and behaviour is not yet complete; and that the requirements of Directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes are not given sufficient consideration;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Further stresses that the process of development of methodologies should be scrutinised with a view to avoiding influence from the industry;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Highlights that available guidance documents are not always legally binding and, therefore, not applied by all national competent authorities, which creates regulatory uncertainty for the applicants and brings into question the results of the evaluations carried out in the framework of the approval procedures;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Further calls on the Commission to make a proposal for the centralisation of the allocation procedures of first approval dossiers to national competent authorities, as a way to provide a better distribution of the workload among Member States, as well as to allow all of them to build experience with approvals;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission and the Member States when acting as risk managers in the approval and authorisation procedures, to duly apply the precautionary principle at zonal and inter-zonal level, and to pay particular attention to the protection of vulnerable groups of the population, including pregnant women, infants and children;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to also address the problem of inconsistency in the interpretation and/or application of the other principles underpinning the Regulation, namely mutual recognition, sustainability and substitution;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States to limit theuse Article 53 of the Regulation according to its original purpose or, more specifically, in "emergency situations" where such authoriszations granted under derogations using Article 53 of the Regulation is necessitated by a danger or threat that cannot be contained by any other reasonable means; further calls on the Member States to fully comply with the obligation of information to other Member States and the Commission set out in Article 53(1), in particular regarding any measures taken to ensure consumer safety;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Commission to make all the derogations granted by Member States under Article 53 available to the public;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls on the Commission to update the working document on Article 53 emergency situations by taking full account of their increased use for soil disinfection purposes and for minor uses authorisations; further calls on the Commission to analyse why Article 53 derogations are also used to provide access to biopesticides and mineral or plant-based substances for integrated pest management and organic agriculture;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to finalise methods to determine whether certain derogations should be applied, in particular as regards ‘negligible exposure’ or ‘serious danger to plant health’; further calls on the Commission to work together with EFSA to define the role of epidemiology findings in regulatory risk assessment;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase the overall transparency of the procedures, including by providing for detailed minutes on the comitology discussions among decision- makers and the arguments behind the final decisions;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Call on the Member States to ensure effective enforcement of the Regulation especially as regards controls of the plant protection products marketed in the EU, regardless of whether they have been produced in the EU or imported from third countries; further calls on the industry to help the authorities enforcing regulatory decisions to access the necessary data for the carrying out of inspections, with a view to fighting the infiltration of illegal products into the market;