Subject Resale of Communityfunded plant protection products from Poland

The considerations which hold, as it were, for applying the standatd period of patent protection in the case of these phatmaceutical products hold also fot plant temedial products, plant protection ptoducts, phytopharmaceutical ptoducts.

Secondly I myself believe that we should include plant protection products for environmental reasons.

Would the Commission furthermore say what Community legislation formed the basis for choosing the plant protection products referred to.

C3 64 89) for a Council directive concerning the placing of EEC accepted plant protection products on the market

I cannot accept such protection for plant protection products themselves as that would render the proposal's essential provisions on mutual recognition and free circulation unworkable.

That is without taking into account the animal protection products which have been added to the regulation without a word of explanation, or the plant protection products which the Merz report seeks to add.

Protection for medicinal products

We must also give the producers of plant protection products a chance to develop new products, to put products on the market that are more environmentally compatible and can be broken down biologically.

And then I moved to the world of plant protection plant protection from insects, from bad bugs.

Assure that the use of plant protection products does not lead to unacceptable risks for the user, the consumer or the environment and at the same time does not impose unnecessary burden to the industry by ensuring an appropriate functioning of the internal market for plant protection products.

As these substances are to be considered as plant protection products, they fall under Directives 91 414 EEC2 and 90 642 EEC3.

According to issue 23 1990 of 'Fagbladet', page 3, Danish farmers have purchased plant protection products stamped 'European Community aid Operation Phare 1990'.

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On the other hand, however, the Socialist Group is not in agreement with the amplification granted by the Committee on Legal Affairs of this Parliament the protection given to the pharmaceutical products in the Commission's draft directive to plant protection products.

A few months ago, in Italy, eighteen thousand people expressed themselves in favour of drastically limiting plant protection products in farming. This is an

Does the Commission propose to ask the Court of Auditors to report on the budgetary implications of resales of plant protection products to third countries?

I have the impression that the grounds for protection of pharmaceutical products that is, the safety reason mentioned earlier, does not apply to plant protection products and, therefore, it is necessary to hear arguments other than those which have been set out in this case.

While that may be appropriate to other types of product, I do not think it takes sufficiently into account the particular nature of plant protection products.

As the introduction of agrochemical inputs into ecosystems may cause irremediable damages, plant protection products authorisations and use is an essential prerequisite for the biological diversity.

Amendments Nos 29, 30, 55, 57 and 66 propose an authorization procedure for plant protection products that is fundamentally different from the procedure proposed by the Commission.

Protection for medicinal products Report (Doc. A3353 90) by Mr Merz

Aftet all, the US rules do not provide extended ptotection fot plant ptotection products eithet.

According to these amendments, the proposal should cover plant ptotection ptoducts in addition to medicinal products.

1 regret I do not see the necessity of introducing Amendments Nos 16 and 47 as these principles are not specific to plant protection products, but apply horizontally to any field of Community legislation.

So it's a whole discipline in plant protection that's aiming at the reduction of chemicals.

However, the mission did discover that in Western Europe, plant protection chemicals from Poland were being sold.

Moreover, Council Directive 1734 88 provides in accordance with recognized international principles for a notification procedure to third countries, for the export of chemical substances including plant protection products which are banned or severly restricted in the Community.

And my group supports those amendments by the rapporteur that call for including plant ptotection products in this Commission proposal.

Trade in agricultural products, textiles and clothing, the services sector and the protection of intellectual property.

Moreover, it would be very difficult to oppose calls fot the proposal to cover, in addition to the plant ptotection products, further products that could not be marketed without prior state authorization.

The one teally important point is that the Commission wishes to place other medicinal products on a par with pharmaceutical products as tegards the duration of protection.

Subject Protection of 'controlled designations of origin' of the principal agricultural products, in particular cheese and ham

Reseatch into medicinal products represents our futute protection system against illness and its cost has become considerable.

And then within plant protection, I came into the discipline of biological pest control which we actually define as the use of living organisms to reduce populations of noxious plant pests.

Furthermore, no Member State shall impose on the products of other Member States any internal taxation of such a nature as to afford indirect protection to other products.

This figure applies to all important products and concerns the reduction of both internal support and external protection.

AMENDOLA (V). (IT) Mr President, my group is against using urgent procedure for the directive on the placing of EEC accepted plant protection products on the market, i.e. the Valverde report, because of the great importance and delicate nature of that directive.

PRESIDENT. The next item is the second report (doc. A3 302 90) by Mr Valverde López, on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection on the amended proposal for a Council directive (COM(89) 34 final C3 64 89) concerning the placing of EEC accepted plant protection products on the market.

This plant is used as an ornamental plant, and it is a poisonous plant.

So we plant it later, along the waterways to filter the water, provide the raw products just in time for when the timber becomes available.

The CBD s Strategic Plan for Biodiversity calls for the formal protection of at least 17 of the most ecologically important terrestrial areas, while the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation seeks to protect 60 of plant species.

This proposed Council Regulation deals only with the treatment of prices for products in the health , education and social protection sectors .

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