4 Amendments of Luke Ming FLANAGAN related to 2017/2128(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that an implementation report for Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 is being undertaken with the aim of ensuring a high level of protection of both human and animal health as well as the environment, while safeguarding the competitiveness and sustainability of the EU’s agriculture sector by providing access to a broad range of active substances and Plant Protection Products (PPP)that have no adverse side effects for all farmers and producers, irrespective of the Members States they are operating in;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance of a science-basedobjective, peer-reviewed evidence, derived from an open independent, and multidisciplinary scientific approach in authorising any active substance, in line with the EU’s risk analysis principles and the precautionary principle as established in the General Food Law (Regulation (EC) No 178/2002), further believes that the commercial formulations in PPPs must be assessed and analyzed as research has shown that exposure to the "cocktail effect" can be much more hazardous than exposure to the single active ingredient;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the contribution that the authorisation of low-risk PPPsnatural PPPs based on natural products can makes to a sustainable EU farming sector, and draws attention to the importance of contributing to a better functioning agricultural ecosystem and a sustainable farming sector, while pointing outhat that the lack of availabilityis category should not be used as a loophole for GMOs and mainstream chemical pesticides to avoid the authorization process, also points out that the overuse of PPPs could jeopardise the diversification of agriculture and cause harmful organisms to become resistant to PPPs.
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. believes as a complement to low risk PPPs Integrated pest management should be mainstreamed into EU agriculture, this means careful consideration of all available plant protection methods and subsequent integration of appropriate measures that discourage the development of populations of harmful organisms and keep the use of plant protection products and other forms of intervention to levels that are economically and ecologically justified and reduce or minimise risks to human health and the environment.'Integrated pest management' emphasises the growth of a healthy crop with the least possible disruption to agro-ecosystems and encourages natural pest control mechanisms. The prevention and/or suppression of harmful organisms should be achieved or supported among other options especially by: crop rotation, use of adequate cultivation techniques (e.g. stale seedbed technique, sowing dates and densities, under-sowing, conservation tillage, pruning and direct sowing), use, where appropriate, of resistant/tolerant cultivars and standard/certified seed and planting material, use of balanced fertilisation, liming and irrigation/drainage practices, preventing the spreading of harmful organisms by hygiene measures (e.g. by regular cleansing of machinery and equipment), protection and enhancement of important beneficial organisms, e.g. by adequate plant protection measures or the utilisation of ecological infrastructures inside and outside production sites.