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Our together Network Let’s work We look forward to an enlightening, interactive discussion and partnership together with a wide range of stakeholders on how to ensure Europe’s place as a world leader in innovation and economic, social and environmental security.
To start the dialogue, we offer 5 policy recommendations: 1. Build a science-based policy framework that balances risks and benefits • Balance risks and benefits in policy-making • Reinforce a science-based approach to policy-making • Improve coordination between risk assessment and risk management 2. Implement smarter and better regulation • Run a regulatory fitness check of the crop protection sector • Improve impact assessments in policy-making • Implementing smarter and better regulation 3. Ensure value-added consistency between EU policies and international agreements • The EU should ensure consistency between regulation, policies and international agreements 4. Foster innovation • Adopt an Innovation Principle in EU decision-making • Reinforce protection of intellectual property rights 5. Mainstream agricultural productivity and competitiveness • The EU must boost agricultural competitiveness and productivity in a sustainable way
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Building a science-based policy framework that balances risks and benefits Balance risks and benefits in policy-making: EU policies and regulations should be built on a risk-based approach to provide a more suitable framework that balances risks and benefits of proposed policy decisions. We call for a change in pesticides legislation and policy-making to ensure that decisions are based on a full evaluation of the risks and benefits.
Decisions should be based on risk assessment and management supported by scientific evidence and expertise
Improve coordination between risk assessment and management: We need to ensure a more predictable, science-based regulatory process. This requires greater coordination between risk assessment (EFSA) and risk management (Commission and Member States). The European Parliament and the Council should also reflect this approach in their decision-making.
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom� (Isaac Asimov)
Reinforce a science-based approach to policy-making: Europe needs to enhance the interaction between science and policy-making by: • Providing a formal role to the Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) for the EU institutions to review the use of scientific evidence in risk management legislation, regulation or administrative decisions, and require further scientific assessment where appropriate • Supporting the EU CSA with a network of Scientific Advisers in all Commission Services and in all Member States • Creating a more inclusive model for scientific assessment that relies on full use of scientific evidence and expertise in risk evaluation and decision-making, including input from academia, the public and the private sector (industry scientists) • Enhancing public understanding of science through improved education and communication
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R&D investment is shifting out of Europe3
Source: R&D investment in relation to turnover. Phillips McDougall (2012), European Innovation Scoreboard (2013) Source: “R&D trends for chemical crop protection products and the position of the European Market”, Phillips McDougall (2013)
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Smarter regulation
Regulations should be proportionate, efficient, costeffective and innovationfriendly
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Implementing smarter and better regulation Run a regulatory fitness check of the crop protection sector: The EU would benefit from a regulatory fitness check for the crop protection sector, carried out by examining the ever-increasing regulatory burdens for their practicability, efficiency, and impact on innovation, and taking into account both primary and secondary legislation and their interaction. The lessons learned should form the basis of a proportional, efficient, cost-effective and innovation-friendly regulatory framework. Improve impact assessment in policy-making: Policy-makers should consider the potential impact of their political, legislative and regulatory decisions in social, economic and environmental terms, including innovation. The impact assessment should be carried out independently in a participatory and transparent way to better inform decision-makers for all policy and legislative initiatives. Achieve an institutional common understanding of the precautionary principle: Europe needs a clearer and common interpretation and use by all institutions of this essential principle of the EU Treaties, which aims for a high level of protection for health and the environment, thereby enabling decision-makers to better balance the benefits, risks and uncertainties of policy decisions. Considering precaution in a broader framework with proportionality and innovation will provide a basis for balanced decision-making.
Consistent policies
The EU should ensure that policies and legislation are internally and internationally consistent
Ensuring value-added consistency between EU policies and international agreements The EU should ensure consistency between regulation, policies and international agreements: Trade negotiations are an important aspect of Europe’s economic and social welfare. The EU should ensure that policies and legislation are internally and internationally consistent, allowing fair trade and ensuring competitiveness of European agriculture and industry.
The EU says “The Union shall in particular ensure the consistency of its external activities as a whole in the context of its external relations, security, economic and development policies� (Article C of Maastricht Treaty)
Innovation
Innovation should be at the heart of EU policy-making
Fostering innovation Adopt an Innovation Principle in EU decision-making: The EU should formally adopt an Innovation Principle in European risk management and regulatory practice. Whenever legislation is under consideration, its impact on innovation should also be taken fully into account in the policy and legislative process, including in the Commission Impact Assessment Guidelines. The Innovation Principle will contribute to a balanced European regulatory policy, allowing continued investment in European innovation – the foundation of job and wealth creation within Europe, and vital to tackling the on-going financial crisis.
Innovation improves our life
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Source: “Food Security in a World of Natural Resource Scarcity: The Role of Agricultural Technologies”, IFPRI (2014)
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Agricultural productivity
The EU must boost agricultural competitiveness and productivity in a sustainable way
Mainstreaming agricultural productivity and competitiveness The EU must boost agricultural competitiveness and productivity in a sustainable way: We should fulfill our responsibility to address the challenge of feeding a growing global population. The European Commission should establish a specific Unit on agricultural competitiveness and productivity, to ensure that policy measures with an impact on European agriculture, such as legislation on agricultural inputs, are properly shaped to support productivity and resource-efficiency. Finally, the European Innovation Partnership on Sustainable and Productive Agriculture should continue to be reinforced enabling all actors to provide a better innovation landscape for agriculture.
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Source: “The social, economic and environmental value of agricultural productivity in the European Union�, Noleppa, von Witzke and Cartsburg (2013)
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Our Network Corporate Member Companies
BASF
Bayer CropScience
Dow AgroSciences
DuPont de Nemours
Makhteshim Agan
Monsanto Europe
Syngenta
Associate & SME Member Companies
Our commitment to the future of sustainable agriculture Arysta LifeScience
Certis Europe
Cheminova
Chemtura Europe
FMC
Gowan Company
ISK Biosciences Europe
Since 2011, Europe’s crop protection industry has been reaching out to major food chain and environmental stakeholders in an inclusive effort to promote sustainable and productive agriculture. With this wide-ranging initiative, the industry has taken an uncompromising lookFull at itself and affirmed a new Member Associations commitment to openness and transparency in closing the gap between industry and society. Janssen Pharmaceutica
Nufarm
SIPCAM
Belgium Phytofar - Belgische Vereniging voor de Industrie van phytosanitaire producten Association Belge de l’Industrie des Produits Phytosanitaires
Denmark DCPA - Danish Crop Protection Association
Ireland APHA - Animal and Plant Healt Association
Italy Agrofarma - Associazione nazionale imprese agrofarmaci
Sumitomo Chemical
Taminco
United Phosphorous Ltd
The initiative delivers projects to ensure safe and affordable food, safeguard water, enhance biodiversity, and protect the health of farmers and the public. The goal is to empower the agricultural sector to meet the demands of a growing population while at the same time protecting our environment. The list of projects includes: Austria FCIO - Fachverband der Chemischen Industrie Oesterreichs
France UIPP - Union des Industries de la Protection des Plantes
Germany IVA- Industrierverband Agrar eV
Greece HCPA - Hellenic Crop Protection Association
Netherlands Nefyto - Dutch Crop Protection Association
Spain aepla - Asociación Empresarial para la Protección de la Plantas
United Kingdom CPA - Crop Protection Association
Group Nordic Country Associations, Constituting One Only Food:ofThe industry’s Residues Management project aims toMember foster consumers’ trust in food safety by implementing concrete measures and actions to minimise pesticide residues.
Bulgaria BgCPA - Bulgarian Crop Protection Association NA
Portugal ANIPLA - Associação National da Indústria para a Proteçção das Plantas
Water: Our industry-launched project encourages farmers and operators to use best practices that help to reduce run off from pesticides by 50-75%. National Associations as Associate Members Biodiversity: The InSPiA (European Index for Sustainable Productive Agriculture) project creates a farm network to enable the validation, demonstration and communication of best management practices for the promotion of biodiversity and sustainable productive agriculture in Europe.
Croatia CROCPA - Croatian Crop Protection Association
Cyprus CCPA - Cyprus Crop Protection Association
Czech Republic CCPA - Czech Crop Protection Association
Hungary HuCPA - Hungarian Crop Protection Association
Kazakhstan The Kazakhstan Plant Protection Association
Finland KASTE Kasvinsuojeluteollisuus ry
Norway NPF - Norsk Plantevern Forening
Sweden Svenskt Växtskydd
Latvia LAARUTA - Latvian Crop Protection Association
Lithuania LCPA - Lithuanian Crop Protection Association
Poland PSOR - Polskie Stowarzyszenie Ochrony Róslin
Health: The Safe and Sustainable Use Initiative has a 10-year proven track record of success in 15 European countries of ensuring the safe and sustainable use of crop protection products.
Romania AIPROM - Romanian Crop Protection Association
Russia AEB - Russian Federation
Serbia SECPA - Serbian Crop Protection Association
Slovak Republic SCPA - Slovak Crop Protection Association
Slovenia SLOCPA - Slovenian Crop Protection Association
Switzerland scienceindustries Business Association Chemistry Pharma Biotech
Turkey ZIMID - Zirai Mücadele Ilaclari Üreticeleri Dernegi
Ukraine EBA - European Business Assoc. Agrochemical Committee
Member Companies This is only the beginningGAPEG of our commitment to provide (non-agriculture) transparent and meaningful information on these important issues. It’s clear that the time for this change is now. The world around us and our way of life depend on it. BASF
Bayer Environmental Science
Neudorff
COMPO
Nufarm
Everris
Monsanto Europe
Scotts France
Syngenta
GAPEG Member Associations (non-agriculture)
Spain aepla Asociación Empresarial para la Protección de la Plantas
Belgium Phytofar - Belgische Vereniging voor de Industrie van Phytosanitaire Producten Association Belge de l’Industrie des Produits Phytosanitaire
Italy Agrofarma Associazione nazionale imprese agrofarmaci
France UPJ - Union des entreprises pour la Protection des Jardins et Espaces Verts
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