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Plant protection products
Critically examined - plant protection products
The BVL is responsible for authorising plant protection products in Germany. In this process, the BVL is responsible for risk management, i.e. for authorisation decisions and administrative measures to protect both humans and the environment. Furthermore, the BVL acts as the national coordination point in the European cooperation to evaluate active substances in plant protection products and to determine maximum residue levels. It lists plant resistance improvers and adjuvants which are permitted in Germany.
Many topics, one goal
Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management
The International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management was one of the first international agreements to protect human health and the environment from unwanted effects of pesticide use. Since its adoption in 1985, it is regularly updated and …
Rotterdam Convention (PIC procedure)
International trade with certain dangerous plant protection products is subject to the conditions of the Rotterdam Convention. The Convention ensures that importing countries, based on solid information, can decide whether they wish to receive …
Stockholm Convention on POPs
The Stockholm Convention was adopted in 2001 and aims at protecting human health and the environment from persistent organic chemicals („persistent organic pollutants“ = POPs). Many POPs are plant protection products that have been banned in Germany …
Basel Convention
The Basel Convention regulates transboundary movements of hazardous wastes. It aims at minimizing the amount of hazardous wastes and at disposing them in an environmentally sound manner as close as possible to their source of production.
Vienna Convention / Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer
International cooperation to protect the ozone layer started with the Vienna Convention of 1985. The Montreal Protocol is based on the Vienna Convention and fixed a workplan to eliminate production and use of ozone-depleting substances worldwide. The …
Minamata Convention on Mercury
In October 2013, the Minamata Convention on Mercury was signed by the first 91 countries. In Germany, mercury compounds may no longer be used in plant protection products since the early 1980s.