Study - EU pesticides export ban: what could be the consequences?

the EU to manufacture and export banned or For this report, we investigated the available data unapproved pesticides for use in other parts of to assess the likely impacts on EU employment the world, posing a threat to humans and the of a ban on the manufacture and export of highly environment in importing countries. [...] The unit value of all agricultural pesticides This includes for example the volumes and value exported each year from each Member State of products that are not exported and remain is calculated by dividing the total export value in the producing country during the same years of these products by the total related volumes (2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022) and covers the recorded in the UN Comtrade datab. [...] 15 EU PESTICIDES EXPORT BAN: WHAT WOULD BE THE CONSEQUENCES? Limited impact on jobs and employment in EU exporting countries The above figures show that the share of EU- The most likely explanation for these increases banned pesticides for agricultural use within in 2021 and 2022 was the addition of newly the total exports and turnover of these products banned substances to the list of chemicals t. [...] 2.2.2 Consequences of the export ban law in France To fine-tune these estimates, we analysed the In 2018, the French government adopted a law consequences of the export ban that entered that aimed to prohibit the export of banned into force in France in 2022 on the jobs and pesticides from the country.20 The law entered employment in the country’s agricultural into force in January 2022. [...] accounted for less than 8 per cent of ● For the LMICs, the EU-banned pesticides the total value of agricultural pesticides accounted for up to 71 per cent of the total exported by key EU exporters in 2018 and volume and value of agricultural pesticides 2019 (with the exception of slightly higher imported from the EU in 2018.