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The Benefit of
Basic Substances for
Minor Uses
Journées Techniques PNPP – Substances naturelles en production végétale
26 April 2016, Paris
Jeroen Meeussen
EU Minor Uses Coordination Facility
Content
EU: Minor Crops and Minor Uses
The EU Minor Uses Coordination Facility
Basic Substances
What are ‘minor crops’?
Minor Uses - Definition
Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 – Article 3(26):
Use of a plant protection product in a particular
Member State on plants or plant products which
are:
(a) not widely grown in that Member State,
or
(b) widely grown to meet an exceptional plant
protection need.
Minor Uses - Importance
Only 3% of the cultivated area, but representing
22% of the value of the entire EU plant production
value.
Across the EU these minor crops represent a
value of more than 70 billion Euros per year.
Minor Crop – US definition
Minor crop: any crop grown on 300,000 acres or less.
This includes most vegetables, fruit, nuts, herbs,
spices, nursery and landscape plants and flowers.
Major crops: large acreage crops like corn, soybean,
wheat, peanuts, rice and cotton.
Minor crops account for over 67 billion dollars in
annual sales, which is about 40 percent of the total
agricultural sales for the US.
Minor Uses - Definition
Is this a workable definition?
Leaves it up to individual Member States to
define what is considered a ‘minor use/crop’;
Hinders the zonal procedure and mutual
recognition;
A fixed acreage (at least per zone) is favoured by
growers associations.
Report on Minor Uses
Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 – Article 51(9):
"By 14 December 2011, the Commission shall present a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the establishment of a European fund for minor uses, accompanied, if appropriate, by a legislative proposal".
Report was adopted on 18 February 2014.
Key-messages:
The creation of an independent Coordination Facility on minor uses which is co-funded by the Commission;
Commission will support an ERANET on Integrated Pest Management with specific reference to minor uses.
Content
EU: Minor Crops and Minor Uses
The EU Minor Uses Coordination Facility
Basic Substances
Coordination Facility - Tasks
Tasks of the Coordination Facility:
sharing of information and experience gained at national level;
coordination of minor use work between Member States and stakeholders;
creation and maintenance of a data base on minor uses;
stimulation of harmonisation (e.g. crop group and pest group definitions, development of guidance).
Coordination Facility
Hosted by EPPO (in Paris) and jointly funded by the EU and by the governments of France, Germany and the Netherlands. Initially for a period of 3 years.
Grant contract was signed on 15 April 2015.
Coordinator started 1 September 2015. Coordination Facility will work for all Member States.
Press Release
PRESS RELEASE
The EU Minor Uses Coordination Facility has started!
On 1st September Mr Jeroen Meeussen started work as coordinator for the new EU Minor Uses
Coordination Facility. Minor uses of pesticides are uses on niche crops with a high economic value for
farmers, but usually of low economic interest for the agro-pesticide industry. The mission of the
Facility is 'to enable farmers in the EU to produce high quality crops by filling minor uses gaps through
efficient collaboration to improve availability of chemical and non-chemical tools within an integrated
pest management (IPM) framework’. Speaking from his office in Paris, Jeroen says “I am looking
forward to the challenge of improving the co-ordination between countries, grower organisations and
industry in developing solutions for minor uses. One of my priorities will be to liaise with applicants,
growers, Member States and other relevant stakeholders. I will also be drawing on experience from
other minor use projects around the globe”.
Jointly funded, initially, by the EU and the governments of France, Germany and the Netherlands, the
Facility is hosted by the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organisation (EPPO) in Paris.
Its work will be overseen by a Steering Group representing all of the funders. The representatives of
the governments of France, Germany and the Netherlands welcomed the creation of the Facility: “We
believe that only through effective collaboration between countries the problems of minor uses can
be addressed. That is why our governments have been willing to contribute to the costs of getting the
Facility established.”
The EU has committed to provide 50% of the costs of this Facility for the first three years. The work
of the Facility will benefit growers in all Member States, and one of its tasks will be to develop a
sustainable funding model for continuing the work in the longer term. All Member States and
stakeholders will need to play a role in securing its future.
Website
Standing Committee on Plants, Animals,
Food and Feed
Steering Group
Co-ordinator
and
Coordination
Facility
EPPO Council, Executive
Committee and Working Parties
EPPO
Secretariat
direction line management
and
admin support
Minor Uses IT
and Admin
Expert Groups
• Commodity Expert Groups
• Horizontal Expert Group
co-ordination
Diagram of relationship
Commodity Expert Groups Currently there are 6 Commodity Expert Groups (CEG):
CEG fruit and vegetables
CEG ornamentals
CEG tobacco
CEG rice
CEG hops
CEG seeds
Focus in CEG is (still) very much on chemical solutions!
Coordination Facility - Mission
The mission of the Facility is 'to enable farmers in the EU to produce high quality crops by filling minor uses gaps through efficient collaboration to improve availability of chemical and non-chemical tools within an integrated pest management (IPM) framework’.
Member States and Stakeholders (growers, industry, international organisations)
C-IPM-ERANET
ERANETs are research coordination instruments whereby Member States can coordinate their National research activities and ultimately fund joint projects.
C-IPM stands for ´Coordinated Integrated Pest Management in Europe´.
C-IPM-ERANET Work Package 3: to identify IPM solutions for use in minor crops or to address situations of exceptional plant protection needs in major crops.
This IPM research programme focuses on non-chemical alternatives.
Minor Uses Research proposals: (a) Cabbage root fly and carrot fly, (b) Mites in berries and small fruits and (c) Soil borne pests and diseases.
Databases
EUMUDA:
EUMUDA needs to be populated with data from all MS!
Transfer and enhancement of the data base.
Content
EU: Minor Crops and Minor Uses
The EU Minor Uses Coordination Facility
Basic Substances
Criteria for identification of
basic substances
Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 – Article 23(1):
not a substance of concern;
not inherent capacity to cause endocrine disrupting, neurotoxic or immunotoxic effects;
not predominantly used for plant protection purposes but useful in plant protection;
not placed on the market as a Plant Protection Product!
Basic Substances and their
products - Derogations
A basic substance shall be approved for an unlimited period;
No authorisation is needed for the use of products containing exclusively one or more basic substances;
The label on the product may indicate that the basic substances it contains are approved under Article 23 of Regulation 1107/2009.
Work in Progress
Working document on approval of basic substances (SANCO/10363/2012 – rev. 9);
Provide guidance for the submission of applications Template as Annex to Working Document;
Clarification about procedure and timelines;
Update Working Document is considered.
Procedures and Timelines
Activity
- Application (to COM):
EFSA
- Commenting (MS+EFSA):
Mandate to EFSA (technical report)
- Reporting table to applicant:
- Finalised reporting table:
COM
- Focussed peer review (by EFSA) or
- Conclusion on open points (by EFSA):
- Review report
• Time
• 0
• 2 months
• 1 month
• 2 months
• 2 months/
• 2 months
• 6 months (after assessment
EFSA)
Approved Basic Substances (1)
Common Name Date of approval Crops
Equisetum arvense 1 July 2014 Fruit trees, peach,
grapevine,
cucumber, tomato
Chitosan
hydrochloride
1 July 2014 Berries, small
fruit, vegetables,
spices, cereals,
potatoes
Sucrose 1 January 2015 Apple, sweet
maize
Calcium hydroxide 1 July 2015 Pome fruit, stone
fruit
Vinegar 1 July 2015 Seeds, vegetables,
chestnut,
ornamentals
Approved Basic Substances (2)
Common Name Date of approval Crops
Lechitins 1 July 2015 Fruit trees,
vegetables,
ornamentals
Salix spp. cortex 1 July 2015 Fruit trees, apple
fruit, grapevine
Fructose 1 October 2015 Apple fruit
Sodium hydrogen
carbonate
8 December 2015 Fruit, vegetables,
ornamentals
Whey Approved
March 2016
Cucumber
Diammonium
phosphate
Approved
March 2016
Orchards, olive
trees, citrus
Non-Approved Basic Substances (1)
Common Name Date of decision Crops
Arctium lappa L.
(aerial parts)
REGULATION (EU)
2015/2082 of 18
November 2015
The assessment of
the risk to
operators,
workers,
bystanders,
consumers and
non-target
organisms could
not be finalised.
Artemisia
absinthium L.
REGULATION (EU)
2015/2046 of 16
November 2015
Non-Approved Basic Substances (2)
Common Name Date of decision Crops
Artemisia vulgaris
L.
REGULATION (EU)
2015/1191 of 20
July 2015
The assessment of
the risk to
operators,
workers,
bystanders,
consumers and
non-target
organisms could
not be finalised
Rheum officinale
root extract
REGULATION (EU)
2015/707 of 30
April 2015
Non-Approved Basic Substances (3)
Common Name Date of decision Crops
Tanacetum
vulgare L.
REGULATION (EU)
2015/2083 of 18
November 2015
The assessment of
the risk to
operators,
workers,
bystanders,
consumers and
non-target
organisms could
not be finalised
Mixtures containing basic
substances
Only one or more basic substances and simple diluent no authorisation necessary
Basic substance + co-formulant(s) authorised as PPP basic substance needs to be approved as active substance
Basic substance + active substance(s) authorised as PPP status ‘basic substance’ not relevant
Comparable substances like ‘acetic acid’ (CAS number 64-19-7) and ‘vinegar’ (CAS number 90132-02-8) can have different status (active versus basic substance)
Special case
Substance has been approved as a basic substance
cannot be placed on the market as a PPP
application for exactly same substance (same CAS number) as ‘active substance’ under Reg. (EC) No 1107/2009
same substance approved as ‘active substance’
products can be placed on the market as PPP
status of the ‘basic substance’ will be reconsidered
Conclusion
Basic Substances can provide excellent tools for sustainable agriculture and to fill minor use gaps!
Jeroen Meeussen Coordinator European Union Minor Uses Coordination Facility 21 boulevard Richard Lenoir 75011 Paris FRANCE T +33(0)1 84 79 07 55 M +33(0)7 60 82 22 36 E [email protected] website: www.minoruses.eu
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