Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "European Crop Protection Association" produced 20 items.
| 1. Science is vital to meeting the food-supply challenge | December 17, 2009 |
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The paramount importance of science is one point on which views in the agricultural industry converge. In a recent letter (“GM food for thought”, 19-25 November), Willy... |
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| 2. EU needs scientific criteria to assess impact of pesticides | January 15, 2009 |
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Will 22 pesticides be banned? That is an MEP's speculation, not a fact. |
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| 3. Parliament approves stricter rules on pesticides | January 13, 2009 |
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Some of the score of harmful pesticides to be withdrawn will remain on the market until 2018. The European Parliament has voted to restrict the use of cancer-causing and... | |
| 4. Parliament committee backs tighter pesticides rules | November 5, 2008 |
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EU ministers are expected to press for amendments amid concerns that one in four pesticides could be blacklisted.
The European Parliament's environment committee has... | |
| 5. Study finds increase in pesticides on food | October 16, 2008 |
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Findings come shortly before key vote in European Parliament. Almost one in 20 fruits and vegetables sold in Europe contain pesticides above the legal limit, according to a... | |
| 6. What role for pesticides in sustainable agriculture? | October 14, 2008 |
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This conference is now over. A full report on the conference and additional material is available. |
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| 7. What role for sustainable agriculture? A conference report | October 14, 2008 |
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The European Parliament's environment committee is to vote on 5 November vote on a proposed EU-wide regulation on the placing of pesticides on the market. The proposal is... | |
| 8. Pointing the finger at pesticides | July 31, 2008 |
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A draft EU law would ban the marketing and use of substances that are carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic to reproduction. Pesticides are controversial. To some, they are a... |
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| 9. Ministers back tighter pesticide rules | June 23, 2008 |
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New regulation could reduce number of farm pesticides by one-third.
EU agriculture ministers have agreed to a new, stricter regulation on agricultural pesticides that... | |
| 10. Ministers set for clash with Commission over pesticides | May 15, 2008 |
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Commission wants to avoid hazards; some member states aim to manage risks. Agriculture ministers are set to clash with the European Commission over a proposed pesticides... |
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| 11. Europe's water | February 28, 2008 |
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A full-day European Voice policy conference examining water in scarcity and excess; water quality; the business of water; public/private service. | |
| 12. Second chemicals battle looms over pesticides | September 20, 2007 |
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To those who followed the process of overhauling the EU chemicals approval procedure, a proposal to reform the authorisation of pesticides looks almost too familiar. Almost... | |
| 13. MEPs study pesticides plans | September 13, 2007 |
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EU pesticides legislation should prevent a wide range of chemicals ending up in European food, according toa report discussed by the European Parliament's environment... | |
| 14. Are Europeans worrying themselves sick over pesticides? | November 23, 2006 |
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A European Commission survey on popular food concerns this year showed that 70% of Europeans were either ‘worried' or ‘very worried' about pesticides in their food. That... | |
| 15. Clarification | May 30, 2002 |
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The new director-general of the European Crop Protection Association,Friedhelm Schmider, is no longer director of global regulatory affairs for BASF, as stated in last week's... | |
| 16. Movers & Shakers | May 23, 2002 |
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Former MEP Carole Tongue has been short-listed to head the European Commission office in London, when long-serving Geoffrey Martin leaves. The European Crop Protection... | |
| 17. France Telecom on hook over high fees | June 21, 2001 |
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COMPETITORS to France Telecom are calling for EU ministers to slash the amount they have to pay the former monopoly to support 'universal services' to remote rural areas and... | |
| 18. Commission revives talks over EU-wide tax on pesticides | June 3, 1999 |
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THE European Commission has reopened discussions with governments on whether an EU-wide pesticide tax to deter farmers from spraying too many chemicals on crops is feasible.... | |
| 19. Bjerregaard revives plan for EU tax on pesticides tax | February 18, 1999 |
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ENVIRONMENT Commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard is to relaunch discussions on the controversial idea of a European pesticide tax to deter farmers from spraying too many chemicals... | |
| 20. Bjerregaard examines levies to control Union's use of pesticides | July 23, 1998 |
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ENVIRONMENT Commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard has ordered her officials to study the possibility of introducing a pan-EU tax on pesticides in an effort to stem a rising tide of... | |
