James as the link you want to send
*http://tinyurl.com/luuqrex <http://tinyurl.com/luuqrex>*
Dr. Evan was broken
and for his clarity better send this ones

1.- Advocate General opinion 9-feb 2011
*http://tinyurl.com/69gwa47 <http://tinyurl.com/69gwa47>*

*2.- *Judgment in Case C-442/09 Karl Heinz Bablok and Others v Freistaat
Bayern
*http://tinyurl.com/ktgs5nr <http://tinyurl.com/ktgs5nr>*

*3.- *And for the whole mess that the Comision and EU Parliament are trying
to resolve can be followed here
*Production and marketing of honey: pollen in honey; aligning the Directive
with the TFEU (Commission delegated and implementing powers*

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheprocedure.do?lang=en&reference=2012/0260(COD)
*http://tinyurl.com/jvw6zrf <http://tinyurl.com/jvw6zrf>*

*4.- *just for the LOL* : **Europe as seen by itself*
*http://tinyurl.com/k5s9aft <http://tinyurl.com/k5s9aft>*


5.- Finally all this is getting much more interesting when mixed with
Pesticides TTIP and the only  loophole that germany have in the GM feed the
livestock industry


www.eurofoodlaw.com/policy/trade/eu-warned-of-economic-consequences-from-pesticide-rules--1.htm

EU warned of economic consequences from pesticide rules nov 29 2013

The revision of EU pesticide rules could block more than $4,000 million
worth of US agricultural exports, according to a study commissioned by
industry trade group CropLife America (CLA).

Regulation 1107/2009 tightens oversight of pesticides and lays out a regime
for effectively banning pesticides that have endocrine disrupting
properties, our sister publication Agrow reports.

Although EU regulators have yet to finalise the criteria for determining
endocrine disrupting properties of pesticides, the study suggests the rule
would likely derail 40 per cent of US agricultural exports, including vast
quantities of soybeans, grains, nuts and fruits.

The EU Regulation takes a “hazard-based precautionary approach” that fails
to consider use and exposure patterns, according to CLA president and CEO
Jay Vroom. The European approach “will eliminate half the [risk] equation”,
he says.

The CLA study suggests the EU rule could label 24 pesticides as endocrine
disruptors and impose a ban on those chemicals, even though the active
ingredients in question have been approved by the US EPA.

Furthermore, the Regulation sets default maximum residue limits of 0.01 ppm
for food and feed containing pesticides deemed endocrine disruptors,
according to CLA. Such a move would effectively block EU imports of US
agricultural goods containing the affected agrochemicals, the study
concludes.

Implementation of the EU rule will ripple across the global marketplace and
cause one of three things to happen in the US, according to James Murphy,
former US assistant trade representative for agricultural affairs.

“We are either going to lose trade in ag products to the EU, or we are
going to lose trade in sales of pesticide products because farmers aren’t
going to use them anymore, or thirdly you will see plant disease and plant
problems increase through resistance to existing products through lack of
sufficient control,” he says. “This not just a US/EU issue. It is going to
[affect] world trade in agricultural goods and pesticide products and the
impact will be enormous.”

CLA is using the report as part of a campaign to pressure US trade
negotiators currently working with their EU counterparts on the
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

The agreement aims to remove trade barriers in a wide range of economic
sectors to increase and facilitate trade between the US and the EU.
Negotiators have concluded two rounds of talks with a third scheduled for
next month in Washington, DC.

“As one of the main objectives of TTIP is to seek regulatory convergence,
differing regulatory frameworks for crop protection products present
serious economic and trade impacts,” Mr Vroom says. “While TTIP works to
open up trade between the US and the EU, Regulation 1107/2009 could shut it
down.”

In a letter sent this month to US Trade Ambassador Michael Froman, CLA
cites the report and says its concerns about the EU Regulation should be
addressed in parallel to the TTIP negotiations. “For the EU to impose a
major, new barrier to US exports while TTIP negotiations are in progress
would not augur well for those negotiations,” Mr Vroom wrote in the
November 13th letter. “This suggests an excellent opportunity for a pilot
project to explore how to give meaning to the TTIP objective of regulatory
convergence.”

But while CLA contends that EU regulators are poised to finalise the
criteria for determining endocrine disrupting properties of pesticides,
imminent action appears unlikely. Although the European Parliament called
for the criteria to be set by next month, the European Commission recently
decided to conduct an impact assessment of the criteria.

The move has frustrated NGOs as well as some EU ministers and members, who
contend the decision is the result of industry pressure intended to delay
action on endocrine disruptors. “This impact assessment is quite an
undertaking and it could delay the release of the final criteria by more
than a year,” says Baskut Tuncat, a staff attorney with the Center for
International Environmental.

Mr Tuncak adds that the CLA report “blatantly ignores” the benefits of
taking action to eliminate endocrine disrupting chemicals and pesticides.
He is also sceptical of the pressure by CLA to get US negotiators to take
on the EU rule as part of the TTIP talks. “This is basically a recipe for
chilling further environmental regulation,” Mr Tuncak told Agrow.

But whether the pesticide industry is successful in getting its concerns
addressed via the trade agreement is not likely to be known until
negotiators complete the deal, he adds. “The negotiations are shrouded in
intense secrecy, not even the individual states have access to the
documents, so it is really, really hard to get a sense of what and what is
not on the table,” Mr Tuncak says. “We won’t know until they tell us at the
very end.”

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