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"en.20170213.11.1-038-000"2
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"Madam President, I support all calls for reducing the regulatory burden associated with bringing safe plant protection products to market and thus widening the toolbox available to farmers. This includes alternatives to conventional pesticides, such as these low-risk pesticides. However, my concern with this resolution is the narrow scope, with the focus only on biological low-risk pesticides when the resolution should be looking at all low-risk pesticides, in line with the Plant Protection Products (PPP) legislation.
I would also highlight the fact that there are genuine concerns about efficacy. Many biological low-risk pesticides are just not very effective and this is why they struggle to get authorisation. I do not support fast-tracking these products through a simplified authorisation procedure if they do not work. The point of a pesticide is to kill the pests, and if farmers use a pesticide believing it will work and it does not work, the fact is that, in the seasons it takes to realise that, the pest can take hold, as we have seen with cabbage stem flea beetle in the UK, particularly with oilseed rape. There we banned neonicotinoids: I am not arguing about that today, but the pest has taken hold to the extent that we are now not able to control it with other conventional pesticides."@en1
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