Title: Regulation of biological control agents /
Authors: Ehlers, Ralf-Udo.
Publisher: Springer,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biological pest control agents Law and legislation OECD countries.; Biological pest control agents Law and legislation European Union countries.; Biological pest control agents Europe.; Biological pest control agents Law and legislation Europe.
Contents: Regulation of biological control agents and the EU policy support action REBECA / Ralf-Udo Ehlers -- Regulation according to EU directive 91/414 : data requirements and procedure compared with regulation practice in other OECD countries / Rüdiger Hauschild, Bernhard Speiser, and Lucius Tamm -- An international comparison of invertebrate biological control agent regulation : what can Europe learn? / Emma J. Hunt, Antoon J.M. Loomans, and Ulrich Kuhlmann -- Regulation of plant protection in organic farming / Bernhard Speiser and Lucius Tamm -- Policy aspects of regulation / Wyn Grant -- Cost-benefit, risk and trade-off analysis of regulation / Ralf-Udo Ehlers -- Risks of microbial biological control agents and regulation : are they in balance? / Claude Alabouvette and Christelle Cordier -- Ecology and human pathogenicity of plant-assisted bacteria / Gabriele Berg ... [et al.] -- Metabolite toxicology of fungal biocontrol agents / Hermann Strasser, Stefan Hutwimmer, and Wolfgang Burgstaller -- Risks of biocontrol agents containing compounds of botanical origin or semiochemicals / Cahterine Regnault-Roger -- Risks of invertebrate biological control agents : Harmonia axyridis as a case study / Patrick De Clerq and Jeffrey S. Bale -- Facilitation in the regulation of plant protection products containing baculoviruses / Rüdiger Hauschild -- Proposals for bacterial and fungal biocontrol agents / Olaf Strauch ... [et al.] -- Proposals for regulation of botanicals / Lucius Tamm, Bernhard Speiser, and Thierry Mercier -- Proposals for regulation of semiochemicals / Bernhard Speiser, Lucius Tamm, and Susan Mattock -- Regulation of invertebrate biological control agents in Europe : recommendations for a harmonised approach / Jeffrey S. Bale -- Proposals on how to accelerate registration of biological control agents / Anita Fjelsted and Ralf-Udo Ehlers.