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Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Anja Hazekamp
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: NL

Voorzitter, commissaris, bedankt voor uw antwoorden. Volgens de Commissie is de beoordeling van de cumulatieve effecten een ingewikkelde zaak en kan het nog lang duren voordat deze wordt ingevoerd. Als we consumenten daadwerkelijk tegen het cocktaileffect willen beschermen, kunnen we twee dingen doen: slechts één landbouwgif per gewas toestaan of consumenten rechtstreeks over de gebruikte pesticiden informeren via etiketten. Is de Commissie bereid dit te doen totdat de cumulatieve effecten goed kunnen worden beoordeeld?
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Anja Hazekamp
Political group: The Left
Country: Germany
Language: EN

Yes, thank you. I will try in English then.  As long as the cumulative effects cannot be assessed – and it will take some time and it is complex, I heard – in the meantime, to protect consumers, are you willing to allow only one pesticide per crop to prevent a cocktail effect? Or, another possibility to protect consumers is to fully inform them through the label. So are you willing to put all the pesticides that were used on a specific crop, on the label?
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Stella Kyriakides
Language: EN

Now, in the EU, as I’m sure you know, food labelling is covered by specific rules, and residues are not considered as ingredients for labelling purposes. In addition, we have a monitoring report by EFSA, for 2020, and more than 94% of the samples that were then analysed for pesticides did not contain any residues, or residues below the legally permitted levels. So the available data that we have indicates that the food placed on the EU market is safe about consumers, and very stringent controls are carried out by the enforcement authorities of Member States.  Our work continues, will continue, and will always continue, to be based on science. It is not about the cost; it is sometimes about the scientific complexity, and the EU has some of the strictest systems in place in the world, I would think, in terms of this.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Maria Arena
Political group: S-D
Country: Belgium
Language: FR

Madame la Présidente, Madame la Commissaire, pour réduire l’utilisation des pesticides nous devons – et vous l’avez dit – inscrire dans la loi des objectifs obligatoires de réduction au niveau des États membres. Mais nous devons aussi identifier les substances qui seront ciblées en priorité et nous devons interdire les substances les plus nocives, en particulier lorsqu’elles sont répertoriées comme candidates à la substitution. La Commission obligera-t-elle les États membres à inclure dans leur plan d’action national un plan de substitution des substances, en commençant par les plus toxiques? Si oui, dans quel délai ? Au-delà de la réduction de l’utilisation des pesticides en agriculture, d’autres mesures pourraient être prises, comme par exemple l’interdiction de ces pesticides dans les espaces publics, dans les aires de jeux pour enfants. C’est déjà le cas en Belgique et en France, alors que, dans d’autres États membres, l’utilisation de tels pesticides se fait encore au sein de ces espaces. Est-ce que vous envisagez d’interdire ces pesticides dans les espaces publics?
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Maria Arena
Political group: S-D
Country: Belgium
Language: FR

Madame la Commissaire, je voulais aussi vous poser une question. On parle ici de leur utilisation par le secteur public dans les espaces publics, mais ces pesticides chimiques connaissent aussi des utilisations privées par des ménages privés, lesquelles sont tout aussi destructrices de la biodiversité. Est-ce que dans ce cas-là aussi vous envisagez des mesures de restriction?
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Stella Kyriakides
Language: EN

For example, in the upcoming Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive, we want to reflect on the ways and the clear wish that we see coming from society not to use pesticides in areas such as playgrounds and parks. So we are aiming to reduce the use of pesticides across the board.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Sarah Wiener
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Netherlands
Language: DE

Sehr geehrte Frau Präsidentin! Sehr geehrte Frau Kommissarin, danke, dass Sie sich für diesen Austausch zur Verfügung stellen. Sie haben die volle Unterstützung bei der  Gerade bei den Pestiziden ist es so: Je mehr Pestizide wir ausbringen, desto mehr schädigen sie nicht nur die Bodengesundheit, nicht nur unser eigenes Mikrobiom, sondern sie schädigen einfach auch die Mitwelt, die Umwelt, das Wasser, die Luft, die Tiere, die Bestäuber. Deswegen ist es immanent wichtig, dass wir uns klarmachen: Was ist nachhaltige Landwirtschaft, was bedeutet Nachhaltigkeit? Und das ist sicher nicht die Benutzung von irgendeinem chemischen Pestizid und schon gar nicht von hochgefährlichen Pestiziden. Ich weiß nicht, ob Sie darüber Bescheid wissen, dass es französische Studien gibt, die 80 % Pestizidreduktion durchgeführt haben und festgestellt haben, dass es keine Ertragsverluste gibt. Es gibt sogar Studien aus Italien, die bei 95 %iger Reduktion von Neonicotinoiden noch immer keine Ertragsausfälle feststellen. Das zeigt ganz deutlich: Wir haben eine Übernutzung von Pestiziden.  Deswegen ist meine Frage: Werden Sie da etwas unternehmen? Werden Sie zu Ihrem Wort stehen? Werden diese SUD und die Ziele der
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Stella Kyriakides
Language: EN

As you know, it was at my request in June last year that the majority of agriculture ministers supported, in the Council, a specific protection goal for the protection of bees. Of course, we need to do further work on this in order to be able to have the protection goal as well for bumblebees and solitary bees, because we do not have the scientific evidence yet. But the proposal that we are putting forward is to have the highest level of protection. In terms of the directive that we’re putting through, it will share the same objectives as the current legislation, which is to protect biodiversity. But of course, we will be doing this in a way that it can be better implemented, putting specific targets. So thank you for that.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Sarah Wiener
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Netherlands
Language: DE

Frau Präsidentin! Ich habe keine Nachfrage, sondern nur eine Bemerkung: Als Imkerin werde ich genau hinschauen, was Sie bezüglich Bestäubern machen möchten. Sie sind nicht nur verantwortlich für unsere Lebensmittel, sondern Sie sind auch verantwortlich für einen hoffentlich guten und giftfreien Honig.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Juozas Olekas
Political group: S-D
Country: Spain
Language: LT

Gerbiamas pirmininke, gerbiama komisare. Mes čia visi sutinkame, kad reikėtų sumažinti pesticidų naudojimą dėl vartotojų sveikatos, tačiau mažinant pesticidus reikia ūkininkams suteikti galimybę apsaugoti savo pasėlius nuo kenkėjų ir suteikti tam tikrus instrumentus. Jeigu naujos mokslo įdiegimo technologijos, tokios kaip genominės technologijos, kaip genų redagavimas, galėtų suteikti daug galimybių, pavyzdžiui, leisti auginti augalus, kurie atsparesni ligoms, aplinkos sąlygoms, klimato kaitai ir kenkėjų poveikiui. Tai veda prie atsparesnės ir švaresnės žemės ūkio maisto sistemos ir prisideda prie žaliojo kurso. Kalbant apie genominių technologijų saugos problemas nenustatyta  naujų pavojų, palyginus su tradiciniu veisimu. Naudojant naujas technologijas netikslių mutacijų yra mažiau nei įprasto veisimo metu. Tiksli mutagenezė ir krizagenezė kelia tokią pat riziką kaip ir įprastinis veisimas. Mano klausimas: kada planuojate pateikti atnaujintus teisės aktus, kad jie geriau atspindėtų mokslo raidą, sudarytų sąlygas Europos Sąjungos mokslininkams ir ūkininkams konkuruoti pasaulinėse rinkose?
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Stella Kyriakides
Language: EN

Now, you mentioned the new genomic techniques, if I understood correctly from the interpretation, we are committed to act in this field given the potential of new genomic techniques to contribute to sustainability objectives. However, we need to take the necessary steps in order to have a robust impact assessment, including a very wide consultation process and a legislative proposal, which is what you ask, if appropriate, will be then put forward in view of the impact assessment. This could be tabled following the impact assessment and the consultation before the summer of next year.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Juozas Olekas
Political group: S-D
Country: Spain
Language: LT

Aš taip pat noriu padėkoti už atsakymą ir lauksime kitų metų, kada Jūsų siūlymas bus pateiktas. Bet aš noriu sugrįžti dar prie klausimo dėl skirtingų pesticidų naudojimo. Kaip Jūs, Komisare, sakėte, kad bus atsižvelgta į startines pozicijas, o ar bus atsižvelgta į tai, kad kai kuriose šalyse ūkininkai jau dabar vartoja mažiau pesticidų ir jie nebus baudžiami už tai, kad bus siūloma jiems sumažinti penkiasdešimt procentų, bet bus suteikta papildoma pagalba, kad jie vartoja mažiau pesticidų negu kitose šalyse?
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Stella Kyriakides
Language: EN

And there will be there will be targets. We will be taking into consideration the starting points of Member States in order to be able to move forward. And I just want to say again that we will be supporting farmers through the transition of the CAP and of course need to respect those who find more challenges. So let’s at least try and agree that we have a common direction in this. And this is not about punishing. The only ones who will be punished if we do not act are going to be future generations.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Martin Häusling
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Frau Präsidentin! Ja, Frau Kommissarin, Sie glauben an die Gentechnik. Aber sehen Sie auch, dass bei der Gentechnik in Südamerika und in den USA der Einsatz von Pestiziden gestiegen ist? Glauben Sie tatsächlich, bei der neuen Gentechnik tritt das Gegenteil ein? Was ist eigentlich eine nachhaltige Nutzung von Pestiziden?  Eine Frage zum Zulassungsprozess: Jahrelang wurde gesagt: Neonicotinoide sind völlig ungefährlich. Dann merkt man nach 20 Jahren: Nein, das Gegenteil ist richtig: Neonicotinoide sind extrem gefährlich. Wie wollen Sie eigentlich garantieren, dass die Zulassungsprozesse bei Pestiziden in Zukunft so sind, dass wir auf Ungefährlichkeit hoffen können? Beispiel Glyphosat: Dass die Kommission jetzt wieder Glyphosat zulassen will, halte ich eigentlich für einen Skandal, denn alle wissenschaftlichen Studien zeigen: Glyphosat ist auch giftig.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Stella Kyriakides
Language: EN

Actually, Farm to Fork has as a title – I was reading about it today – ‘Our health, our planet, our future’. I think that says it all. In terms of the revision of the sustainable use of pesticides, I have said that we aim to come forward with that before the summer. The targets are there. The targets are necessary. It’s not about banning the use of chemical pesticides, but it’s about reducing the use where possible and where there are no viable alternatives. So we are working on a wide range of supporting measures to be able to achieve this and I am sure that once we put forward our proposal, we will have your support.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Martin Häusling
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Frau Präsidentin! Frau Kommissarin, glauben Sie, dass die Mitgliedstaaten da mit Ihnen mitgehen? Denn seit Jahren verweigern ja die Mitgliedstaaten eine Reduzierung, wie sie jetzt eigentlich schon im integrierten Landbau vorgesehen ist. Es gibt keine Berichte aus den Mitgliedsländern, und es werden auch keine Pläne auf den Tisch gelegt, wie Pestizide in den Mitgliedsländern reduziert werden. Also glauben Sie daran, dass die Mitgliedsländer da mitspielen? Ernsthaft?
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Paolo De Castro
Political group: S-D
Country: Belgium
Language: IT

Signora Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, signora Commissaria, l'invasione russa dell'Ucraina ci ha fatto render conto di come, per troppo tempo, abbiamo dato per scontata la sicurezza alimentare. Purtroppo non è così. Putin ha creato una crisi, sta creando una crisi, con l'accesso al cibo nel bacino del Mediterraneo, minando l'equilibrio geopolitico e creando le condizioni per una ripresa delle ondate migratorie che l'Unione ha già faticosamente affrontato durante le primavere arabe. Un contesto estremamente delicato che, tuttavia, le prime bozze di nuova normativa sui fitofarmaci sembrano del tutto ignorare, Commissaria. In tali bozze la Commissione stessa stima impatti significativi sulla produzione europea, conseguenti sia all'aumento dei prezzi per i nostri consumatori, sia all'aumento delle importazioni da parte di paesi terzi. Tutto ciò non garantirà alcun rispetto dei nostri standard di sostenibilità e il tutto senza offrire ai nostri agricoltori alcuna alternativa valida all'utilizzo della chimica. Come hanno detto tanti altri colleghi, Commissaria, non ritiene che sia arrivato il momento di rompere gli indugi e di mettere sul tavolo la nuova normativa sulle biotecnologie sostenibili? Così si potrà finalmente ridurre la chimica.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Stella Kyriakides
Language: EN

The war in Ukraine, combined with a price surge, has brought forward the links of geopolitics, globalisation and climate change and food security. However, the war in Ukraine does not remove the fact that climate change, biodiversity loss and scarcity are some of the biggest threats facing humanity in the next decades. And the cost of inaction hugely outweighs the costs related to transition. So, we are committed to the Green Deal and Farm to Fork and its ambitions, and we will be working very closely in order to ensure that we are going to be able to support and deal with the fall—back of this war as much as possible. And let me just say here that we have taken a number of steps already to ensure that we secure as much as possible the movement of food. For example, we adopted solidarity corridors recently in order to enable grain exports from Ukraine. So we will be moving with this as much as possible.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Paolo De Castro
Political group: S-D
Country: Belgium
Language: IT

Grazie per la sua risposta, Commissaria, ma la mia domanda è la seguente: non ritiene che ci sia un controsenso se la Commissione, da una parte, vuole aumentare la produzione agricola europea – e infatti abbiamo sospeso temporaneamente l'
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Stella Kyriakides
Language: EN

No, it’s not going in the opposite direction. In fact, we’re not going to be banning the use of pesticides. We’re looking to reduce them, as I have said, through the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Regulation, and we will be working towards this in order to be able to achieve what we have already said.  I just wanted to say here that in order to do this, we need to have the systematic application of integrated pest management. This must become the norm. Of course, the war in Ukraine has necessarily made us pause on some actions and take targeted short-term measures, but it is not a reason not to go forward.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: João Pimenta Lopes
Political group: The Left
Country: Romania
Language: PT

Senhora Presidente, Senhora Comissária, no debate que hoje aqui se promove refere-se, e bem, a necessidade de reduzir o uso de pesticidas, salvaguardando os interesses dos consumidores. Sucede que a utilização de pesticidas não se pode dissociar dos fenómenos da crescente concentração da produção agrícola e intensificação do modelo produtivo que, em países como Portugal, nos últimos 30 anos, levaram à perda de centenas de milhares de explorações, sobretudo de pequena dimensão e familiares, e correspondentes postos de trabalho.  No dia em que aqui neste hemiciclo se celebraram os 60 anos da PAC importa recordar as consequências da Política Agrícola Comum naqueles fenómenos, mas também na redução da diversidade biológica na produção agrícola, no abandono de espécies tradicionais, na normalização e padronização da produção. Um caminho que reverte a favor das multinacionais do setor agroalimentar, com a cumplicidade da Comissão Europeia e da UE, favorecendo a superprodução intensiva, a monocultura, a disseminação de OGM associados, tantas vezes, ao aumento de resistências aos pesticidas, impondo a absoluta dependência dos produtores em relação às multinacionais. Está a Comissão disposta a questionar este caminho?
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Stella Kyriakides
Language: EN

And the current crisis has reinforced our conviction that the resilience of our food systems needs a fundamental change and reorientation of EU agriculture food systems towards sustainability. So, I believe that the ambitious farm to fork strategy goals are more relevant now than ever. We need to decrease our overreliance on inputs, including pesticides and fertilisers through innovation, agroecology and the adoption of best practices. And we will be doing this while supporting, of course, farmers through the CAP. We are committed to making this transition to sustainable food systems successful.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: João Pimenta Lopes
Political group: The Left
Country: Romania
Language: PT

Senhora Presidente, Senhora Comissária, eu percebo que seja difícil, ao fim de tantas perguntas, repetir muitas vezes o mesmo conteúdo e a evidência, enfim, de que há menos disponibilidade por parte da Comissão para, de facto, questionar o que é necessário. Porque reduzir a utilização de pesticidas passa por questionar o modelo produtivo, por direcionar os apoios à pequena e média agricultura, à agricultura familiar, valorizar métodos tradicionais de produção, bem como de espécies tradicionais e autóctones, melhor adaptadas às condições de cada país e que garantam que são menos dependentes do uso deste tipo de fitofármacos das multinacionais do setor.  A questão que se coloca, Senhora Comissária, é se haverá apoios disponíveis direcionados especificamente a este subsector, à pequena e média produção, para alcançar estes fins.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Isabel Carvalhais
Political group: S-D
Country: Italy
Language: PT

Senhora Presidente, Senhora Comissária, eu defendo e acredito que os objetivos delineados nas estratégias do prado ao prato e da biodiversidade são fundamentais para estabelecer o caminho, o rumo para sistemas agroalimentares mais sustentáveis. E, nesse sentido, também devem servir, obviamente, para estimular o aparecimento de soluções inovadoras e respeitadoras do ambiente, como sejam as substâncias ativas biológicas ou a promoção de métodos naturais de controlo de pragas.  E por isso eu pergunto, no contexto desta nova proposta de legislação, como está a ser equacionada, ou se estará a ser equacionada, a necessidade de agilizar o processo de autorização de substâncias que sejam de baixo risco na agricultura e com respeito integral da segurança para a saúde pública e para o meio ambiente.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Isabel Carvalhais
Political group: S-D
Country: Italy
Language: PT

Eu gostaria que o tratamento fosse igual e é uma pergunta muito rápida, uma vez que a resposta da Senhora Comissária também foi muito rápida, está bem?  É muito rápida e eu gostaria de perguntar, se me é permitido, em que medida é que nesta nova legislação está a ser equacionada a questão da proteção integrada, desde logo no que toca a uma maior homogeneidade das regras da proteção integrada no contexto da União Europeia. E devo dizer também que, relativamente à primeira questão, não fiquei totalmente satisfeita, mas compreendo que nesta altura estamos todos muito cansados e com pouca disponibilidade para a resposta.
Debate: Question Time  Reducing the use of pesticides and strengthening consumer protection
Date: MONDAY, 6 JUNE 2022
Speaker: Stella Kyriakides
Language: EN

As you have said, we need to encourage the use of low—risk and biological alternatives. As I have said from the Commission side, we will be expediting the phasing out of the more hazardous pesticides. But together with this, we will be streamlining – and this is what I maybe didn’t say correctly – and speeding up the approval and procedures for the low—risk products, because the two have to go hand-in-hand. We have already promoted the micro—organisms with concrete proposals, and we have put forward guidance on semi-chemicals and botanicals. Efforts are also needed from Member States ˗ and I want to say this here ˗ to speed up their assessments at national level in order to make these alternatives available to farmers. We, from our side, will do everything possible to do this, but we also need to have the commitment from the Member States so that these alternatives reach farmers. If we want to see these alternatives reach the market, resources must be made available for this.  For your second question, if I understood it correctly, integrated pest management is at the very core of the proposal.