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Sarah WIENER, Martin HÄUSLING, Michèle RIVASI, Jutta PAULUS

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)

(9a) The Court of Justice issued a ruling on 19 January 2023 in Pesticide Action Network Europe and Others v État belge (Case C-162/21), stating that Article 53(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 does not permit Member States to use the so-called “emergency derogation” to allow the placing on the market or use of certain plant protection products or seeds treated with those products if their marketing and use has been explicitly prohibited by EU legislation.

2023/04/04
Committee: ENVI

Martin HÄUSLING, Michèle RIVASI, Jutta PAULUS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1

1. The use of all plant protection products is prohibited on all surface waters, including intermittent surface waters, and within 310 metres of such waters. ~~This 3 metr~~At least 5 metre of this buffer zone shall be vegetated and the buffer zone shall not be reduced by using alternative risk- mitigation techniques.

2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI

Michèle RIVASI, Jutta PAULUS

Proposal for a regulation
Chapter VI – title

VI SALE OF PLANT PROTECTION PRODUCTS, TRADE AND COOPERATION WITH THIRD COUNTRIES

2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI

Michèle RIVASI, Jutta PAULUS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 a (new)

Article 24a Import of agricultural and agri-food products from third countries 1. The import of agricultural and agri-food products from third countries is prohibited if they have been treated or produced with substances that do not meet the approval criteria set out in points 3.6.2 to 3.6.5, 3.7 and 3.8.2 of Annex II of Regulation 1107/2009. 2. The production, storage and export from the European Union of plant protection products not approved by Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 or not complying with the identification and traceability requirements imposed by this same regulation shall be prohibited.

2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI

Michèle RIVASI, Jutta PAULUS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 b (new)

Article 24b International cooperation on information on the use of pesticides 1. The Commission shall start a dialogue with third countries to set up partnerships and cooperation mechanisms to strengthen the collection and transparency of data on the use of plant protection products in third countries and to allow the exchange of information between those countries on the one hand, and the Commission and the Member States on the other. 2. These partnerships and cooperation mechanisms may include structured dialogues, support programs and measures, and administrative procedures. They shall aim to promote the reduction in the use of plant protection products in third countries and a transition towards non-chemical alternatives to pesticides and integrated pest management practices. 3. The Commission encourages third countries to set up public databases containing precise information on the use of plant protection products. 4. The Commission shall encourage third countries to require producers, suppliers, distributors, importers and exporters to keep registers of the plant protection products they produce, import, export, store or place on the market for at least five years. In addition, third countries shall be encouraged to require professional users of plant protection products, for at least three years, keep records of the plant protection products they use, containing the name of the plant protection product, the time and the dose of application, the area and the crop where the plant protection product was used. The information contained in these registers shall be available to be communicated on request to the competent authorities of third countries as well as to interested third parties, such as the drinking water industry, retailers or residents.

2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI

Sarah WIENER, Jutta PAULUS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 1

1. Each Member State shall designate a competent authority to provide information to the public, in particular through awareness-raising programmes, in relation to the risks associated with the use of plant protection products. The information content is co-developed by national authorities that are responsible for the environmental risk assessment of pesticides.

2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI

Sarah WIENER, Jutta PAULUS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 a (new)

Article 33a Monitoring of pesticide residues 1. By … [OP: please insert the date – 18 months after the date of entry into force of this Regulation] Member States shall put in place routine measures for carrying out specific, representative monitoring programmes of residues of active substances and their metabolites in water resources, groundwater, soil, air/dust/precipitation, biota and humans to assess whether (a) the goals of this Regulation with regard to the reduction of use and risk of chemical plant protection products are met; (b) pesticide findings comply with the predicted exposure from environmental and human risk assessments according to Regulation 1107/2009; (c) a reduction of pesticide exposure can be linked to effect indicators for the environment and human health1a; (d) the prevention of deterioration of the status of all bodies of surface and groundwater according to Directive 2000/60/EC is achieved; (e) mitigation measures are effective and properly implemented. 2. Existing monitoring programmes and indicators shall be evaluated and adapted if necessary, and new programmes shall be tailored as appropriate to assure that suitable monitoring data is generated. If necessary, Member States shall implement additional measures to ensure that the use of plant protection products complies with the provisions of Articles 4 and 29 of Commission Regulation 1107/2009. 3. The results of the monitoring programmes shall be submitted to the Commission and published on the website referred to in Article 8. The Commission shall examine the results and consider whether regulatory changes are necessary. __________________ 1a Effect indicators shall include existing resources and tools such as farmland birds index, pollinators index, butterfly index, Insignia-bee, EPT index, SPEAR index, LUCAS monitoring of Soil Biodiversity, the TAT (Total Applied Toxicity indicator) for different groups of organisms, as well as the risk assessment as well as the risk assessment carried out by EFSA and indicators related to the soil microbiome.

2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI

Sarah WIENER, Jutta PAULUS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 5

5. By… [OP please insert the date = first day of the month following 12 months after the date of entry into force of this Regulation], the Commission shall complete an evaluation of harmonised risk indicators 1, 2 and 2a. This evaluation shall be based on scientific research from the Joint Research Centre and extensive consultation of stakeholders, including Member States, scientific experts and civil society organisations. The evaluation shall, inter alia, explore options to further differentiate the active substances falling in group 2 based on their risk profile and to include selected non-chemical substances in the categories of active substances as referred to in Annex I and Annex VI and include the methodologies to be used in formulating new and modifying existing harmonised risk indicators in accordance with paragraph 4. To that purpose, the European Commission shall include the information whether an active substances is classified as non-chemical plant protection product in the European Pesticides database.

2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI

Sarah WIENER, Jutta PAULUS

Proposal for a regulation
Annex VI – Section 2 – point 7 a (new)

7a. With effect from 1 January 2028, the methodology of harmonised risk indicator 1 shall be replaced by a methodology of harmonised risk indicator which builds upon real use data as referred to in Article 35 (4).

2023/04/05
Committee: ENVI

9 Amendments of Jutta PAULUS related to 2022/0196(COD)

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