Report from the Sub-committee on Legislation
3. Problems
| 3.1 | The sub-committee’s main task |
| 3.2 | Specific problems |
3.1 The sub-committee’s main task
According to the sub-committee’s mandate, its main task is to determine:
 | whether there are rules of law that prevent implementation of Danish legislation or other national regulation aimed at a total or partial phase-out of the use of pesticides in agriculture, |
and, if there are,
| what initiatives can be taken to overcome the legal obstacles to a total or partial phase-out of the use of pesticides in agriculture. |
The sub-committee has therefore assessed these questions in relation to the following bodies of law:
| EU law |
| WTO law (World Trade Organisation) |
| The Danish Constitution, section 73 on Right to Property, Expropriation. |
3.2 Specific problems
The specific problems considered by the sub-committee include:
| a. | Prohibition (total or partial) of the sale of plant protection
products (inter al. 6.1.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.2.3 and 7.2.4) |
| b. | Prohibition (total or partial) of the use of plant protection
products (inter al. 6.1.2 and 6.7) |
| c. | Tightening of the authorisation scheme for plant protection products (inter al. 6.1.3, 6.8, 6.9 and 7.1.4) |
| d. | Tightening of requirements concerning marketing (inter al. 6.6 and 7.1.6) |
| e. | Higher taxes on plant protection products / pesticides (inter al. sections 6.11 and 7.1.8) |
| f. | Grants for production without plant protection products (section 5.1.2) |
| g. | Agreements with the agricultural industries on reducing the use of
pesticides (sections 6.13 and 7.1.5) |
| h. | Self-regulation in the agricultural industries with respect to the use of
pesticides (section 6.14) |
| i. | Training as a condition for use of plant protection products (sections 6.15 and 7.1.7) |
| j. | Lower limit values for pesticides in food products (sections 6.10 and 7.2.6) |