Double Standards and Hazardous Pesticides from Bayer and BASF

• The export of pesticide active ingredients that are banned in the EU to other regions of the world comes at the expense of humans and the environment. [...] In defiance of the principle of precaution and despite the fact that the authorities can revoke the approval of a pesticide in the event of new findings (Article 21 of Regulation 1107/2009), the approval of epoxiconazole remained unchallenged for years.29 Given the classification by the ECHA, it is clear that the hazardous nature of the active ingredient has been known since 2010. [...] This allowed Article 46 of the Regulation 1107/2009—which governs the sell-off period and the period of permitted use after the end of approval—to be fully utilized.30 This article grants a sell-off period of up to six months after the end of the approval and then a year-long period of permitted use if the reasons for “withdrawal, amendment or non-renewal of the authorization are not related to th. [...] The following findings are derived from an analysis of The active ingredient fenamiphos is a particularly information made available to the public by agrofit, the interesting case regarding the extent to which Bayer website of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture.69 and BASF also produce and export active ingredients that are subsequently formulated locally and sold by Of the active ingredients i. [...] 29 EU Parliament, “Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the 8 EU Parliament, “Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the Council Directives”, 2009, placing of.