| Crop areas |
Reasons for dispensation |
| 1. Treatment of all seed with a dressing agent to and
including 1st generation. |
1. There are no reliable methods at present for
controlling stinking bunt, leaf stripe and stripe smut. Treating the pre-basis, basis and
1st generation would ensure against major proliferation in the large 2nd generation (max.
60,000 ha). |
| 2. Control of problematical species of weed in seed
grass. |
2. Seed grass cannot be certified if sufficient
freedom from weed seed cannot be achieved. Most of the seed produced is exported (61,000
ha). |
| 3. Seed potatoes. Use of desiccation agents and agents
against potato blight. |
3. Rapid pre-harvest desiccation of seed potatoes is
important for ensuring a virus-free product. Permission to use chemical agents against
potato blight is needed to ensure that the quality requirements concerning seed potatoes
are met (6,000 ha). |
| 4. Control of wild oat in stands where hoeing is not
possible. |
4. Wild oat has to be controlled by law. Where there
is such a serious problem with this weed that hoeing is impossible, dispensation should be
granted for chemical control (65,000 ha). |
| 5. Prevention and control of Colorado beetles in seed
potatoes. |
5. Farmers are required by law to prevent and control
Colorado beetles (rarely needed). |
6. Prevention and control of specific
pests in pot plants and nursery cultures. |
6. Pot plants and nursery cultures may only be sold in
the EU and exported provided they are completely free of specific pests (including
leaf-miner fly and tobacco white fly), cf. the Danish Plant Directorate’s notices).
The products are also required to be to all intents and purposes free of common pests
(including thrips and aphids). |