P6_TA(2007)0445#The placing of plant protection products on the market ***I#European Parliament legislative resolutionof 23 October 2007 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (COM(2006)0388 — C6-0245/2006 — 2006/0136(COD))
Date: 2007-10-23
Institutions: Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety, Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, European Parliament
Subjects: marketing standard, pharmaceutical product, plant health product

16.10.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 263 E/181

(e) The pesticide applied shall be as specific as possible for the target and shall have the least
side effects on human health and the environment, such as plant and tree extracts, mineral sub-
stances for prevention of fungal growth.

Tuesday 23 October 2007

(f) The professional user should keep the use of pesticides and other forms of intervention to levels that
are necessary, e.g. by reduced dosage, reduced application frequency or partial applications, bearing
in mind that the level of risk in vegetation must remain acceptable and that they may not increase
the risk for development of resistance in populations of harmful organisms.

(g) Where the risk of resistance against a plant protection measure is known and where the level of
harmful organisms requires repeated application of pesticides to crops, available anti-resistance stra-
tegies should be applied to maintain the effectiveness of the products. This may include the use of
multiple pesticides with different modes of action.

(h) Professional users should keep records of all pesticides used, by field. Based on the records on the use
pesticides and on the monitoring of harmful organisms the professional user should check the suc-
cess of the applied plant protection measures.

P6_TA(2007)0445

The placing of plant protection products on the market ***I

European Parliament legislative resolutionof 23 October 2007 on the proposal for a regulation of
the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on
the market (COM(2006)0388 — C6-0245/2006 — 2006/0136(COD))

(Codecision procedure: first reading)

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the Commission proposal

to the European Parliament

and the Council

(COM(2006)0388),

— having regard to Article 251(2) and Articles 37(2) and 152(4)(b) of the EC Treaty, pursuant to which the

Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C6-0245/2006),

— having regard to the opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs on the proposed legal basis,

— having regard to Rules 51 and 35 of its Rules of Procedure,

— having regard to the report of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and
the opinions of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, the Committee on the Internal Mar-
ket
and Rural Development
(A6-0359/2007),

and Consumer Protection and the Committee on Agriculture

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1.

Approves the Commission proposal as amended;

Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if it intends to amend the proposal

2.
substantially or replace it with another text;

3.

Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council and Commission.

P6_TC1-COD(2006)0136

Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 23 October 2007 with a view to
the adoption of Regulation (EC) No …/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council con-
cerning the placing of plant protection products on the market

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Articles▐ 152(4)(b) and
175(1) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions,

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty (2),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Council Directive 91/414/EEC of 15 July 1991 concerning the placing of plant protection products
on the market (3) provides for rules governing plant protection products and the active substances
contained in those products.

In their conclusions on the progress report (4) presented by the Commission under Directive
91/414/EEC, the European Parliament and the Council asked the Commission to review the Directive
and identified a number of issues for the Commission to address.

In the light of the experience gained from the application of Directive 91/414/EEC and of recent
scientific and technical developments, Directive 91/414/EEC should be replaced.

By way of simplification, the new act should also repeal Council Directive 79/117/EEC of 21 Decem-
ber 1978 prohibiting the placing on the market and use of plant protection products containing
certain active substances (5). However, the main principles of Directive 79/117/EEC should be main-
tained in the new act.

(1) OJ C 175, 27.7.2007, p. 44.
(2) Position of the European Parliament of 23 October 2007.
(3) OJ L 230, 19.8.1991, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 2007/52/EC (OJ L 214, 17.8.2007,

p. 3).

(4) COM(2001)0444.
(5) OJ L 33, 8.2.1979, p. 36. Directive as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 of the European Parliament

and the Council (OJ L 158, 30.4.2004, p. 7, corrected version in OJ L 229, 29.6.2004, p. 5).