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"Madam President, the key to the sustainable use of pesticides is rational risk reduction. We should achieve this objective by implementing the guidelines in the directive on the sustainable use of pesticides. Each country will be obliged to prepare its own plan in accordance with the guidelines given in the directive. Each country should be able to do this, taking into account local conditions and differences. We differ, primarily, in the level of agricultural development, I repeat: the level of agricultural development. Those countries that are new members of the European Union often have enormous work to do to catch up as regards the level of development. A reduction in the use of pesticides in these countries, as compared with the present level of their use, will, in the final analysis, work against us as consumers, unless, in reducing their use, we take into account the present level of use of these products, which is relatively low. Our landscape is different, too. In Poland enormous areas of woodland can be protected against pests only by spraying from the air. It is a duty to the natural environment to protect these forests, and it is Parliament’s responsibility to set out guidelines for the safe use of products that protect the natural environment. The directive speaks a great deal about the farmer’s level of knowledge being the most important factor for the implementation of sustainable use of pesticides. It is the responsibility of us all to support education and to create the conditions so that this information can reach every farmer. In tabling an amendment concerning temporary national allowances for pesticides I am speaking in favour of the mechanism for exchanging older preparations for modern and safer ones as quickly as is possible. I would ask for your support. The guidelines in the directive should encourage rational measures and they should not discourage Member States and farmers."@en1

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