Activities of Martin HÄUSLING related to 2022/0196(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Sustainable use of plant protection products (debate)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 348 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) The Court of Justice issued a ruling on 19 January 2023 in Pesticide Action Network Europe and Others v État belge (Case C-162/21), stating that Article 53(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 does not permit Member States to use the so-called “emergency derogation” to allow the placing on the market or use of certain plant protection products or seeds treated with those products if their marketing and use has been explicitly prohibited by EU legislation.
Amendment 455 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18 a (new)
Recital 18 a (new)
(18a) Herbicide-tolerant crops lock farmers into a weed management system that is largely or wholly dependent on herbicides, as farmers purchase such seed in order to be able to spray the complementary herbicide. The use of herbicide tolerant crops accelerates the emergence and spread of resistant weeds, thereby triggering the need for even more herbicide use, a vicious circle known as ‘the herbicide treadmill’. A number of studies1a show that herbicide-tolerant crops result in a higher use of complementary herbicides, in large part because of the emergence of herbicide- tolerant weeds. __________________ 1a See, for example, Bonny, S., ‘Genetically Modified Herbicide-Tolerant Crops, Weeds, and Herbicides: Overview and Impact’, Environmental Management, January 2016;57(1), pp. 31- 48, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/262 96738 and Benbrook, C.M., ‘Impacts of genetically engineered crops on pesticide use in the U.S. - the first sixteen years’, Environmental Sciences Europe; 28 September 2012, Vol. 24(1), https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articl es/10.1186/2190-4715-24-24
Amendment 2209 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1
1. The use of all plant protection products is prohibited on all surface waters, including intermittent surface waters, and within 310 metres of such waters. This 3 metrAt least 5 metre of this buffer zone shall be vegetated and the buffer zone shall not be reduced by using alternative risk- mitigation techniques.
Amendment 2444 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – point b
(b) implementation of integrated pest management and low input farming systems;