Economic Impact of the Pesticide Registration Regulation

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Economic Impact of the Pesticide Registration
Regulation

• Paul Temple
• Vice President
• National Farmers Union (NFU) England and Wales

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Some positives

• Provisional authorization
• 5 year derogation
• Parallel trade
• Extended data protection for minor uses
• Mutual recognition
• Single zone for seed treatments

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PSD Impact AssessmentMay 2008

• Commission Proposals
• Could reduce cereal yields by 20-30 (if all
  triazoles lost)
• Make it impossible to grow carrots, parsnips and
  onions. Carrots estimated loss of 6,600/ha
• Reduced oilseed rape yields due to lack of
  disease control options
• Greater costs and increased resistance risk for
  blackgrass control in cereals

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Parliament Position

• Horticulture - no herbicide options for weed
  control, many crops uneconomic to grow e.g vining
  peas, carrots.
• Cereals - no chemical control of blackgrass, loss
  of value 850/ha BYDV losses up to 2.5t/ha
  equivalent to 300/ha further undermining of
  cereal disease control with higher yield loss
  expected.
• Sugar beet end of UK sugar beet industry (e.g
  BBRO report).
• Potatoes unlikely to be able to grow seed
  potatoes, ware yields severely reduced and very
  long rotations required.
• The list goes on.
• Overall disastrous effect production exported
  out of EU, production declines, jobs lost, food
  security decreases

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ADAS Report, June 2008

• Percentage Yield Reductions for
• Wheat and Field Brassicas
• Commission Parliament
• Yield Yield
• reduction reduction
• Wheat 29 81
• Brassicas 25 78

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Sean Rickard Report, Cranfield University

• Price Increases Required to Restore Gross
  Margins
• Wheat Commission - 32
• Wheat Parliament - 135
• Calabrese
• Commission Position - 21
• Parliament Position -236
• Parliament proposal would add 9p to cost of a
  loaf of bread
• and double cost of potatoes and brassicas

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This is a Europe Wide Issue not just a UK Issue

• Dutch Impact Assessment, October 2008
• Decrease in Margin
• Crop Council position Parliament position
• Ware potatoes 14 31
• Sugar Beet 18 68
• Tulip bulbs 99 100
• Tomatoes 27 85
• PSD the anticipated loss of triazoles is
  expected to have broadly similar impact to that
  in the UK in much of northern Europe. The impact
  of those proposals resulting in a loss of
  insecticides would be expected to be more severe
  in southern Member States.

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So MEPs

• Vote for the Council Common Position
• Refuse to accept any amendments which make the
  situation worse
• Support any amendments which help with pesticide
  availability
• Demand that an EU wide impact assessment is
  carried out on the effects on production before
  the legislation is introduced