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 13 dec 2017 12:25 

Member States endorse Commission's proposal to identify criteria for plant protection products


Today, at the meeting of the Standing Committee for Plant, Animals, Food and Feed, Member States endorsed the criteria for the identification of endocrine disruptors in the context of the plant protection products legislation. The criteria take into account the views of the European Parliament expressed, on 4 October, on an earlier draft Regulation endorsed by Member States in July.

 The criteria endorsed today therefore do not include a specific provision for the so-called "growth regulators". Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis welcomed the vote: "I now call on Council and the European Parliament to give their green light on this text to ensure a swift implementation of the criteria in the course of 2018. Once implemented, the text will ensure that any active substance used in pesticides which is identified as an endocrine disruptor for people or animals can be assessed and withdrawn from the market."The scientific criteria for biocides already entered into force on 7 December and will become applicable on 7 June 2018. The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) – have launched last week a public consultation on the draft technical Guidance document to implement the criteria once they become applicable for biocides and pesticides.

The public consultation is open until 31 January 2018. For more information here.



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