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Criteria to identify endocrine disruptors for plant protection products

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EUROPEAN TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION, 27 Jul 2016

Key Messages The EU Commission is failing to meet its Treaty obligations by delaying in taking action on exposure to endocrine disruptors. Endocrine disruptors are linked to hormone-related cancers such as breast or testicular cancer, fertility problems, diabetes, obesity and behavioural…

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American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union, 27 Jul 2016

AmCham EU calls for robust scientific criteria to identify endocrine disruptors. Failing to adopt such criteria will negatively impact public health, agriculture and trade. There are a number of commendable aspects found in the draft criteria to identify endocrine disruptors (EDs). These…

Cefic urges including potency in endocrine disruptor identification criteria

European Chemical Industry Council, 27 Jul 2016

Cefic calls for the inclusion of chemical strength, severity, and irreversibility in identification criteria. They argue the current proposals are not fit for purpose. They advocate for using these factors to distinguish truly harmful from harmless substances.
This would provide the chemical industry with the predictability needed for investment.
Public health advocates lose if the identification of harmful chemicals is restricted by potency requirements.

German farmers urge risk-based criteria for endocrine disruptors

Deutscher Bauernverband, 28 Jul 2016

The DBV requests a scientific risk assessment that includes exposure and potency levels. They argue the current proposal based on broad definitions leads to unnecessary bans of essential chemicals.
Farmers maintain access to essential tools to secure yields and international competitiveness.
Environmental groups lose the precautionary benefit of banning substances based solely on hazard potential.

Dow Europe urges EU to adopt potency-based endocrine disruptor criteria

Dow Europe GmbH, 28 Jul 2016

Dow recommends adopting Option 4 to include potency and hazard characterization in the criteria. They argue Option 2 is insufficient because it fails to distinguish harmful substances from harmless ones. They also reject a categorical approach that could confuse the public about health risks.
This would provide a predictable regulatory framework that aligns with existing international standards.
Farmers and consumers face lower crop yields and higher risks of foodborne diseases.

Cosmetics Europe Urges Inclusion of Potency in Endocrine Criteria

Cosmetics Europe, 28 Jul 2016

The industry supports the WHO definition but demands regulators distinguish real dangers. They recommend amending criteria to include potency and full hazard assessments.
This avoids banning safe ingredients, which protects the industry's existing product portfolios.
Environmental groups lose a precautionary system that bans chemicals based on inherent hazard.

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European Landowners' Organization asbl, 28 Jul 2016

The European Landowners' Organization (ELO), created in 1972, is a unique federation of national associations from the 28 EU Member States and beyond, which represents the interests of landowners, land managers and rural entrepreneurs at the European political level. Independent and non-profit…

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Fédération Européenne des Fabricants d'Aliments Composés, 28 Jul 2016

FEFAC, the European Federation representing the European compound feed & premixtures industry, wishes to share its comments on the EU Commission proposal on the criteria for the determination of Endocrine Disrupting (ED) properties in Plant Protection Products (PPPs). FEFAC is concerned about the…

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Landwirtschaftskammer Österreich, 28 Jul 2016

Die Landwirtschaftskammer Österreich begrüßt, dass die Europäische Kommission (EK) nach langer Diskussion und nach Verurteilung durch den EuGH (RS T-521/14, Schweden / Kommission) einen Entwurf über die Festlegung von wissenschaftlichen Kriterien für die Bestimmung endokriner Disruptoren in…

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Syngenta Crop Protection AG, 28 Jul 2016

Syngenta considers the proposal for the criteria for PPPs to be unacceptable in its current form. We are highly concerned that the proposed regulation will remove technologies from the market that are perfectly safe to humans or the environment. Criteria are needed that separates those endocrine…

Grain and oilseed industry urges risk-based endocrine disruptor criteria

Comité du commerce des céréales, aliments du bétail, oléagineux, huile d'olive, huiles et graisses et agrofournitures de l'U.E., 28 Jul 2016

The associations request including hazard characterisation and potency in the identification criteria. They advocate for a risk-based approach including exposure and socio-economic impacts.
This approach protects the industry from the withdrawal of economically important substances.
European agricultural producers face lower yields and reduced productivity under the current proposal.

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DuPont de Nemours International SARL, 28 Jul 2016

On 15 June 2016, the European Commission published its proposal for regulatory criteria for endocrine disrupting chemicals. DuPont believes that the criteria are not acceptable in their current form because the Commission largely ignores the regulatory consequences of the criteria as proposed.…

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The EU Vegetable Oil and Proteinmeal Industry, 28 Jul 2016

FEDIOL and COCERAL comments on the Commission’s proposal setting out scientific criteria for the determination of endocrine disrupting properties FEDIOL and COCERAL, the European associations representing respectively the vegetable oil and protein meal industry and the trade in cereals, rice,…

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European Federation of National Associations of Water Services, 28 Jul 2016

EurEau represents national associations of water services in Europe who heavily rely on the confidence of their consumers in the quality of drinking water resources. Water suppliers must have access to adequate and reliable sources that are protected from contamination. The sustainable protection…

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EVONIK INDUSTRIES AG, 27 Jul 2016

From Evonik´s perspective, the criteria presented by the European Commission do not suitably differentiate between substances that can be used safely and substances in need of regulation. We acknowledge that the presented criteria for ED are based on the WHO definition. Moreover, a “weight of…

Covestro AG urges EU to include potency in disruptor criteria

Covestro AG, 27 Jul 2016

Covestro recommends including potency to distinguish substances that pose higher safety risks. They also suggest avoiding chemical categorization to prevent unnecessary administrative burdens. The group advocates for a strict definition of how chemicals cause health effects.
This would reduce the company's compliance costs and prevent potential product bans.
Public health advocates lose information regarding substances suspected of being endocrine disruptors.

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Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, 21 Jul 2016

Naturskyddsföreningen, The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, calls on the EU Commission to make significant changes to the proposed criteria for identifying endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The current proposal fails to address this pressing public health threat and fulfil the legal…

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France Chimie, 28 Jul 2016

UIC supports using the WHO IPCS definition, with clear reference to all three elements of adverse effects: mode of action and causality, and its definition of adverse effects. We further support the review of all the relevant scientific evidence and then making a weight of evidence assessment…

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Endocrine Society, 27 Jul 2016

The Endocrine Society expresses disappointment and concern that the European Commission’s regulatory criteria published on June 15, 2016 are too narrow to effectively protect the public from endocrine-disrupting chemicals. The Endocrine Society includes over 18,000 physicians, scientists, and…

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Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail, 27 Jul 2016

Le 15 juin dernier, la Commission européenne (CE) rendait publique sa proposition de critères d’identification des perturbateurs endocriniens (PE), accompagnée de plusieurs textes visant à proposer des amendements aux règlements en vigueur relatifs aux produits biocides et aux produits…

ZERO Urges Stricter EU Criteria for Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

ZERO - ASSOCIAÇÃO SISTEMA TERRESTRE SUSTENTÁVEL, 26 Jul 2016

ZERO demands identifying substances when they are known or presumed to cause harm. They reject replacing "negligible exposure" with "negligible risk" to prevent major loopholes. The group calls for three categories based on the level of evidence.
This would protect citizens from hormone-related diseases and reduce massive annual health costs.
Pesticide manufacturers would lose flexible exemptions and face requirements to phase out harmful materials.

British Agriculture Bureau warns against unscientific pesticide criteria

British Agriculture Bureau, 27 Jul 2016

The bureau advocates for a science-led, risk-based approach that considers chemical potency and exposure levels. They warn that current criteria would result in losing critical tools for managing crop diseases.
This would protect farmers from massive yield losses and maintain their global competitiveness.
Consumers and the environment face significant food shortages and expanded land requirements.

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Center for International Environmental Law, 18 Jul 2016

The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) welcomes the Commission’s effort to define endocrine disruptors’ criteria based on the WHO/IPCS definition, and without the element potency, according to the Commission’s mandate to present “specific scientific criteria for the determination of…

WECF urges EU to strengthen endocrine disruptor identification criteria

Women Engage for a Common Future, 27 Jul 2016

WECF wants to identify disruptors using presumed effects rather than requiring absolute proof. They support classifying substances into three groups based on the strength of scientific evidence. The group also opposes the introduction of safety assessments that would allow limited chemical exposure.
Stricter standards would benefit the group's agenda by stimulating innovation and development of safer alternatives.
Pesticide manufacturers lose access to the proposed loophole that would permit continued chemical usage.

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Phyteis (ex Union de l'Industrie de la Protection des Plantes), 22 Jul 2016

L’UIPP considère inacceptable la proposition actuelle sur les critères PE pour l’encadrement des produits phytos. En effet, les impacts de ces critères sont particulièrement dommageables pour la filière agricole dans son ensemble, sans pour autant conduire à une avancée significative en termes…

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Fédération Nationale des Agriculteurs Multiplicateurs de Semences, Graines et Plants, 28 Jul 2016

Alors que les options 2 et 4 proposées apportent un niveau équivalent de protection vis-vis de la santé humaine et de l’environnement, la FNAMS considère que l’option 4 devrait être privilégiée dans la mesure où celle-ci génère significativement moins d’impacts sur les activités agricoles. Ceci…

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Pestizid Aktions-Netzwerk e.V., 28 Jul 2016

PAN Germany (Pestizid Aktions-Netzwerk e.V.) would like to express its deepest concern about the proposed criteria for identifying endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC) presented by the European Commission (COM). We welcome the COM decision not to include potency in the definition and to acknowledge…

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Asociación empresarial para la protección de las plantas, 27 Jul 2016

AEPLA se opone a la propuesta de la Comisión Europea por no considerar la evidencia científica disponible en el momento de evaluar si una sustancia activa es considerada alterador endocrino (ED). Las implicaciones de dicha propuesta pueden ser muy importantes para la agricultura al reducirse la…

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CropLife NL, 27 Jul 2016

• 26 juli 2017 - Voor Nefyto staat voorop dat de veiligheid van gewasbeschermingsmiddelen van het allergrootste belang is. Nefyto maakt zich echter grote zorgen dat het huidige Commissievoorstel voor hormoonverstorende stoffen onbedoelde en mogelijk gevaarlijke gevolgen heeft voor de voedselketen…

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Breast Cancer UK, 27 Jul 2016

Breast Cancer UK welcomes the opportunity to respond to the proposed criteria for identifying endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). We call on the EU Commission to make significant changes, as we believe that the current proposal requires such a high burden of proof that it will only identify a…

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CropLife Danmark, 27 Jul 2016

Dansk Planteværn finder ikke, at EU-Kommissionens forslag til kriterier for hormonforstyrrende effekter lever op til behovene for en fremtidig videnskabelig baseret regulering. Ved alene at basere kriterierne på WHO/ICPS definitionen vil en lang række stoffer både naturligt forekommende (f.eks.…

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Collectif Sauvons les fruits et légumes de France, 25 Jul 2016

Le Collectif Sauvons les Fruits et Légumes de France considère que la proposition de la Commission européenne sur les critères de perturbation endocrinienne pour l'encadrement des produits phytosanitaires n'est pas pertinente. Et ceci pour deux raisons majeures. • La proposition (option 2) va se…

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Nederlandse Akkerbouw Vakbond, 28 Jul 2016

De Nederlandse Akkerbouw Vakbond (NAV) heeft met interesse kennis genomen van de voorgestelde criteria voor ED’s. De NAV is voorstander van het weren van middelen die een aantoonbare blijvende schade veroorzaken en vindt het terecht dat er aandacht wordt besteed aan de mogelijk hormoonverstorende…

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Krajowa Rada Izb Rolniczych, 28 Jul 2016

Further to our position published yesterday and in order to re-emphasize the importance of this regulatory discussion for the Polish and EU agriculture, please find below data on effect of potential withdrawal of plant protection products due to the ED criteria (Source: expert report published in…

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Hrvatsko društvo biljne zaštite, 27 Jul 2016

Hrvatsko društvo biljne zaštite (HDBZ) smatra da predloženi kriteriji za ocjenu endokrinih omotača ne osiguravaju objektivnu i znanstveno utemeljenu procjenu opasnosti koju tvari označene kao endokrini ometači mogu imati na zdravlje ljudi i okoliš. Primjenom predloženih kriterija koji se temelje na…

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Kasvinsuojeluteollisuus ry, 27 Jul 2016

Comments of the Finnish Crop Protection Association KASTE and the Finnish Seed Traders´ Association: We support the Commission proposal, that in risk assessment under the derogations, both exposure and hazard shall be considered. We agree, that risk management overall falls in the mandate of the…

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Ελληνικός Σύνδεσμος Φυτοπροστασίας, 27 Jul 2016

Ο ΕΣΥΦ θεωρεί ότι η πρόταση για τα επιστημονικά κριτήρια για τον προσδιορισμό των ενδοκρινικών διαταρακτών (ΕΔ) είναι ασαφής και ως εκ τούτου διαβλέπουμε ότι θα έχει ανεπιθύμητες και δυνητικά επικίνδυνες συνέπειες για την αγροδιατροφική αλυσίδα, επειδή θα περιορίσει σημαντικά τις διαθέσιμες λύσεις…

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Animal & Plant Health Association, 27 Jul 2016

APHA considers the proposal for the ED criteria for pesticides to be unacceptable in its current form and fails to take agriculture, food production, sustainable farming and viable farming into account. We are highly concerned that the proposal will have unintended and potentially dangerous…

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Assomela, 27 Jul 2016

Per adottare decisioni in merito agli interferenti endocrini è necessario, come giustamente riconosciuto dalla stessa Commissione, definire criteri precisi per identificarli. Assomela ritiene che l’utilizzo della definizione di interferente endocrino dell’OMS, verso cui potrebbe essere orientata…

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Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V. , Friends of the Earth Germany, 27 Jul 2016

BUND/Friends of the Earth Germany calls on the EU Commission to make significant changes to the proposed criteria for identifying endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The current proposal fails to address pressing public health threat and fulfil the legal mandate to protect the health of humans,…

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Agricultural Industries Confederation Ltd, 27 Jul 2016

The need for hazard characterisation, including potency, in the definition for endocrine disruptors Inclusion of potency in the WHO / IPCS definition will allow the continued use of active substances (ais) used to control weeds, pests and diseases in crops contributing to the production of safe,…

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European Mancozeb Task Force, 27 Jul 2016

The EU Mancozeb Task Force (TF) has reviewed the draft European Commission Regulation setting out scientific criteria for the determination of endocrine disrupting properties on Plant Protection Products (PPPs) and biocides as well as the European Commission Communication and Impact Assessment and…

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Croatian Crop Protection Association, 27 Jul 2016

Mišljenje je Udruge CROCPA da se endokrini ometači trebaju razmatrati kao sve druge aktivne tvari koje predstavljaju opasnost za zdravlje ljudi, odnosno, da trebaju biti podložni ocjeni rizika koja uključuje i stvarnu štetnost i izloženost. Udruga CROCPA je izrazito protiv prijedloga Komisije.…

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Crop Protection Association, 26 Jul 2016

The Crop Protection Association (CPA) strongly objects to numerous aspects of the Commission’s proposal for criteria to identify endocrine disruptors for PPPs and therefore to the proposal as a whole. Fundamentally, as the proposal uses the WHO/IPCS definition alone, it fails to allow all available…

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Reforestación Sin Fronteras, 26 Jul 2016

RSF solicita a la Comisión Europea que realice cambios sustanciales en los criterios propuestos para identificar los contaminantes hormonales o EDCs. La propuesta actual no soluciona esta amenaza a la salud pública ni cumple la obligación legal de proteger la salud y el medio ambiente de la…

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Rebutting Industry Science with Knowledge Consultancy, 23 Jul 2016

I have no expertise on whether the Commission has gone beyond what the EU Treaties and related law allow it to do in changing settled laws that the three main bodies have agreed on. Nevertheless it feels obvious that it has. Namely: 1) You claim that POTENCY will not be a criteria to…

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Krajowy Związek Plantatorów Buraka Cukrowego, 23 Jul 2016

Odnośnie kryteriów dla substancji zaburzających funkcjonowanie układu hormonalnego, popieramy podejście oparte na pełnej ocenie ryzyka, zgodnie z opinią Europejskiego Urzędu ds. Bezpieczeństwa Żywności. Widzimy jednocześnie duże niebezpieczeństwo dla plantatorów buraka cukrowego, gdyby Unia…

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The Cancer Prevention & Education Society, 21 Jul 2016

The Cancer Prevention & Education Society calls on the EU Commission to make significant changes to the proposed criteria for identifying endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The current proposal fails to address this pressing public health threat and fulfil the legal mandate to protect the…

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Inter-Environnement Wallonie, 20 Jul 2016

Inter-Environnement Wallonie demande à la Commission européenne d’apporter des modifications importantes aux critères d’identification des perturbateurs endocriniens (PE) proposés. La proposition actuelle ne permet pas de répondre à cette menace pour la santé publique, ni de remplir le mandat légal…

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Det Økologiske Råd, 14 Jul 2016

The Danish Ecological Council calls on the EU Commission to make significant changes to the proposed criteria for identifying endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The current proposal fails to address this pressing public health threat and fulfil the legal mandate to protect the health of humans,…

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Lancaster University, 6 Jul 2016

I am one among a number of researchers looking at how to make best use of the best evidence to identify and classify endocrine disruptors. While we are encouraged that the proposal acknowledges the role which systematic review (SR) methods could play in identifying EDCs, and are satisfied with the…