Pesticide registration decision making

Compliance wifii laws regulating pesticides consideration of input from all stakeholders makes decision to register or reregister the pesticide based on risk assessment and benefits analyses makes decision on mitigation measures necessary to support registration decision Preparation of a scientifically valid risk assessment... 

The aim of our stock taking was to prove that these key issues need to be addressed explicitly and in a systematic, standardized way. There needs to be a clearly defined set of criteria by which models can be assessed so that all stakeholders involved in pesticide registration gradually build up confidence in ecological models as a tool for decision making. In this way, we could eventually start utilizing the potential of ecological models to overcome the inherent limitations of risk assessments that focus on effects at the level of individuals (Chapter 2). 

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Although it still may take a long time mtil a central pesticide registration becomes a practical reality in the European Economic Community, the initiated activities will certainly speed up the harmonization of regulations and decision making in the member states. 

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