15 Amendments of Martin HÄUSLING related to 2017/2128(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas certain provisions of the Regulation have not been applied at all by the Commission, in particular Article 25 on the approval of safeners and synergists and Article 27 on a negative list of unacceptable co-formulants;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas other key provisions such as application of the cut-off criteria for active substances that are endocrine disrupters have been significantly delayed due to unlawful behaviour by the Commission;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the European Ombudsman, in her decision in case 12/2013/MDC of 18 February 2016 on the practices of the European Commission regarding the authorisation and placing on the market of plant protection products (pesticides), called on the Commission to review its approach to the definition and implementation of mitigation measures (conditions and restrictions), so as to include further requirements aimed at ensuring that the Commission does not evade its responsibility to ensure the effective protection of human health, animal health and the environment by allowing Member States almost absolute discretion as regards the definition of mitigation measures for potentially unsafe substances, given that standard formulations are very open-ended and it can be doubted whether they can be legally described as requiring mitigation measures at all;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Is concerned that rapporteur Member States do not strictly apply Article 9 of the Regulation on the admissibility of the application and accept applications despite missing elements;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Finds it unacceptable that the approval requirements for safeners and synergists have not yet been applied, contrary to Article 25 of the Regulation;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Finds it unacceptable that the negative list of co-formulants has still not been adopted, especially after the ban of the POE-tallowamines in combination with glyphosate, which has highlighted the adverse effect that certain co- formulants can have;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Condemns the Commission for its unlawful actions with regard to the adoption of scientific criteria for the determination of endocrine disrupting properties (failure to act due to the commissioning of an irrelevant impact assessment; unlawful attempt to change an essential element of the basic act via an implementing act);
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Member States to strictly apply Article 9 of the Regulation on the admissibility of the application and to only accept complete applications for the assessment of the active substance;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission to ensure full application of Article 25 of the Regulation so that that safeners and synergists may only be used following their approval;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Calls on the Commission to swiftly adopt the negative list of co-formulants pursuant to Article 27 of the Regulation;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Calls on the Commission to include legally binding risk mitigation measures into the approval of active substances rather than leaving it to the discretion of Member States to deal with known risks posed by pesticides;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States to limit the authorisations granted underonly grant derogations using Article 53 of the Regulation in actual emergency situations, and calls on the Commission to fully use its control rights under Article 53(2) and (3);
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Commission to refrain from proposing any modification of the term ‘negligible exposure’ via an implementing act, as doing so would exceed its competences;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to finalise methods to determine whethern certain derogations should be applied, in particular as regards ‘negligible exposure’ or ‘serious danger to plant health’, without changing the letter or the spirit of the law; warns the Commission that any reinterpretation of the term 'negligible exposure' to 'negligible risk' would be against the letter and the spirit of the law;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to strictly limit the use of the confirmatory data procedure; to its purpose as laid down in Article 6(f) of the Regulation, namely where new requirements are established during the evaluation process or as a result of new scientific and technical knowledge, but not to use it to deal with data gaps;