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Seminar on «EU Plant Health
Requirements»
Bangkok, 21 October 2011
“Quick view on the EU pesticide residue legislation”
Dionyssis VlachosMinistry of Rural Development and Food, GreecePesticides Department
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FIRST DIRECTIVE: Council Directive 76/895/ EEC (MRLs in and on fruits and vegetables)
AIM:
ensuring free movement of products throughout the
Community
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WEAK POINTS• The number of pesticides covered was
small
• The commodities roughly classified
• No procedures for their establishment, the background for these values not clear
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Regulation 396/2005
• All Directives to one Regulation
–To facilitate trade within the EU
–Ensure a consistent level of consumer protection
–Automatically supersedes any national legislation i.e. pan-EU MRLs will supersede national MRLs
•No need to write into national law
•Differences between a Directive and a Regulation
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Regulation 396/2005
• Split risk assessment and risk management
–EFSA (risk assessment)
–European Commission - SANCO (risk management) but will verify EFSA‟s assessment
–No MRL – LoQ (0.01 mg/kg)
–Prevents Member States setting national MRLs
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MRL definition
Maximum residue level’ (MRL) means the upper legal level of a concentration for a
pesticide residue in or on food or feed set in accordance with Reg. 396/2005, based on good agricultural practice and the lowest consumer exposure necessary to protect
vulnerable consumers
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Regulation 396/2005: A signifiant step ahead
Close relationship with 91/414/EEC (residuemonitoring to back up the statutory approvals process for pesticides by checking that no unexpected residues are occurring) (i.e control of GAP)
Modifications of MRLs following revocation of authorisations of plant protection products
Import tolerances
Shifting the importance of pesticide residue monitoring from checking compliance with MRLs and application of current legislation to assessing consumer exposure
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Regulation 396/2005 (1)
• Replaced the previous Council Directives on Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) for plant protection products
• All MRLs for PPPs harmonised
• All trade barriers that were the result of the previous situation (whereby Member States could set their own national MRLs in the absence of Community MRLs) are removed
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Regulation 396/2005 (2)
• Provides for the role of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and of the Commission in the process of setting MRLs.
• Risk assessment is now a responsibility of EFSA
• The Commission is responsible for the risk management, by deciding on the setting of MRLs based on the opinion of EFSA
• Processing factors will be defined
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MRLS, GENERAL PHILOSOPHY
MRLs are not toxicological limits, but limits set to:• facilitate trade within the Community and • to allow control of the correct use of plant
protection products (respect to GAP)Therefore, exposure to residues in
excess of an MRL does not automatically imply a hazard to health
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MRLs (real values) 0.2 mg/kg or 0.5 or 2 etc
• Are fixed only for crops for which an authorised /registered or officially recommended treatment exists.
• This is the so-called Good Agricultural Practice, GAP
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If no GAP exists (the PPP is not authorised in any EU Member-State)
• Limit of Determination (Limit of Quantification, LOD (a low figure followed by an asterisk) is set as MRL
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ANNEX
Pesticide residue and maximum residue
levels (mg/kg)Groups and examples of individual products to which
the MRLs apply Flupyrsulfuron-methyl
Azoxystrobin Pymetrozine
1. Fruit, fresh, dried or uncooked, preserved by
freezing, not containing added sugar; nuts0.02 (p) (*)
(i) CITRUS FRUIT 1(p) 0.3(p)
Grapefruit
Lemons
Limes
Mandarins (including clementines and other hybrids)
Oranges
Pomelos
Others
(ii) TREE NUTS (shelled or unshelled) 0.1 (p) (*) 0.02*(p)
Almonds
Brazil nuts
Cashew nuts
Chestnuts
Coconuts
Hazelnuts
Macadamia
Pecans
Pine nuts
Pistachios
Walnuts
Others
CommodityPesticide MRL
Citrus fruit 2,4-D 1
2,4 DB 0,05 (*)
0,02 (*)acephate
atrazine 0,05 (*)
1azoxystrobin
acetamiprid 1
aldicarb 0,02 (*)
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•It means that not detectable residues must be found (practically zero residues)
The asterisk* indicates lower limit of analytical
determination (LOD)
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Several cases of setting LOD (LOQ) as MRL
1. No GAP because no need to use this PPP on this specific crop
2. No GAP because it must not be authorised because of risks for operator
3. No GAP because of environmental risks
4. There is GAP, but it does not give rise to detectable residues (pre-emergence herbicides, early treatments on fruit trees, etc)
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LOD (LOQ) as MRL
• However, in the Directives, the reasons for setting MRLs at the LOD are not made clear.
• In order to avoid misinterpretation you must have access to the whole data set on which the LOD as MRL was based
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MRLS FOR PESTICIDES
• Are set on the basis of the fact that they arise from intended (recommended and authorised) use
• MRLs GAP
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As indicators of GAP,
MRLs are not toxicological limits,
but must be toxicologically
acceptable
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IMPORT TOLERANCES
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When an import tolerance is needed?
• When a crop is not grown in EU
• When a pesticide is not used in the EU (with the exception of those banned in the framework of 91/414/EEC Directive on other grounds than toxicological concerns, i.e profenofos)
• When a crop/pesticide combination does not exist in the EU (No GAP)
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Regulation 396/2005
CHAPTER VOFFICIAL CONTROLS, REPORTS AND SANCTIONS
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Reg. 882/2004 article 15.1
Multi-annual:
Annual:
Enforcement
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Pesticide residue monitoring
1. National Programs2. EU-coordinated program
(Risk based and Representative)
3. Emergency measures
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National programmesRegulation (EC) No 882/2004
“In order to ensure the effective implementation of Article 17 (2) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002, and of Article 45 of this regulation, each Member State shall prepare a single integrated multi-annual national control plan”
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Content of a National Plan – products to be sampled (domestic/ EU/ third
countries)
– number of samples to be taken;
– pesticides to be analysed;
– criteria applied in drawing up the programme, such as:
• consumption of the products as a share of the national diet;
• the Community control programme; and
• the results of previous control programmes.
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EU coordinated programmeAIM
Since pesticide uses show significant changes over a period of three years, pesticides should be monitored in ca 30 foodstuffs over a series of three-year cycles to allow the assessment of:
consumer exposure and
the application of Community legislation
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EU coordinated programme, from recommendation to regulation
Previously:
• Commission recommendation: Not legally binding
• Number of samples lower
• The most significant change: Number of pesticides to be analysed (scope) !!!!!!!!!
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Where food is likely to constitute a serious risk to human health, animal
health or the environment
MEASURES
have to be taken either by the Commission or by Member States
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Regulation (EC) 396/2005
• The time limit within which the Commission must take its decision shall be reduced to seven days in the case of fresh produce?
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Emergency measuresArticle 53, Regulation 178/2002
• Where it is evident that food or feed originating in the Community or imported from a third country is likely to constitute a serious risk to human health, animal health or the environment, and …
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– that such risk cannot be contained satisfactorily by means of measures taken by the Member State(s) concerned, the Commission, acting in accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 58(2) on its own initiative or at the request of a Member State, shall immediately adopt one or more of the following measures, depending on the gravity of the situation…
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What measures?
• in the case of food or feed of Community origin:
(i) suspension of the placing on the market or use of the food or feed in question;
(ii) laying down special conditions for the food or feed in question;
(iii) any other appropriate interim measure
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What measures?
• in the case of food or feed imported from a third country:
(i) suspension of imports of the food or feed in question from all or part of the third country concerned and, where applicable, from the third country of transit;
(ii) laying down special conditions for the food or feed in question from all or part of the third country concerned;
(iii) any other appropriate interim measure
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Decisions?
• As soon as possible, and at most within 10 working days, the measures taken shall be confirmed, amended, revoked or extended in accordance and the reasons for the Commission's decision shall be made public without delay.
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Example…
• Commission Decision 2009/835/EC: The European Commission imposed
emergency measures on pear imports from Turkey after some shipments where found to contain pesticide residues over
1400 times above acceptable levels (amitraz case).
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The EC called Member States to increase testing of all Turkish pears, when
numerous breaches were reported via RASFF over a two year period
between2007-2009
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Reading and assessing an official laboratory analysis for pesticide
residues(Eg. Laboratory analysis reports the
detection in mango sample :dimethoate 0,46+0,23 mg/kg
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Decision making
• Variability due to sampling is taking into account in the sampling procedure (COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2002/63/EC)
• Analytical Variability (measurement uncertainty) has been assessed through the EU proficiency tests and other studies
• A 50% uncertainty is added to the MRL when an MRL is exceeded (acutely toxic pesticides?)
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Measurement Uncertainty and Enforcement
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A very important issue for discussion
Who is the decision maker?
• laboratory, or
• inspector, or
• regulator
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Sanctions
• Member States should lay down rules on sanctions applicable to infringements of this Regulation and ensure that they are implemented.
• Those sanctions are to be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.
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Examples of actions taken in case of infringments (Risk dependant)
Administrative measures and Fines
Court
Contacting authority responsible for granting authorisations to PPP for domestic products
Contacting producers organisations
Contacting embassies
Publication on Internet
RASFF
Border rejection
Back to country of origin