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agrochemical sales by 3.6% to €957 ■ Italian agrochemical company ■ The European Court of Justice has is seeking a derogation from the EU GMO
million (US$1,312 million) in the second Sipcam-Oxon suffered a 9.6% fall in annulled the European Commission’s registration Directive (2001/18).
quarter of 2007. Volumes were up by agrochemical sales last year to €273 2003 decision not to include the
4%, while revenues were aided by a 2% million (US$343 million). Pesticides fungicide, metalaxyl, in Annex I of the ■ The German government has
increase in prices, but were reduced by made up 94% of group revenues. The EU agrochemical registration Directive proposed final amendments to its law on
2% due to currency effects lower sales were due to the devaluation (91/414). It agreed with the Spanish genetically modified organisms and aims
of the dollar and the “crisis” in the agrochemical company Industrias to pass it within the next two months.
■ Bayer CropScience’s crop protection Brazilian market, the company said. Químicas del Vallès’ claim that its inability The proposed decree’s “highest priorities”
sales dipped by 0.6% to €1,262 million to submit a complete ai dossier before remain: the protection of human and
(US$1,700 million) in the second ■ Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha (ISK) the specified deadline “was attributable, animal health; consumers’ freedom of
quarter of 2007. Profitability rose as the recorded agrochemical sales of ¥41,800 in part at least, to the contradictory choice between GM and conventional
company’s cost-cutting measures were million (US$357 million) in the year to behaviour of the competent authorities”. products; and the guarantee of co-
“slightly ahead of target”. First-half sales March 31st 2007, up by 3.2% on the existence.
edged up by 0.5% to €2,696 million. previous year. Overseas sales were ■ The European Commission proposes
boosted by higher sales of fungicides speeding up the EU review of existing ais ■ The French Ministry of Agriculture
■ Growth across all regions contributed and insecticides, in addition to by reducing the European Food Safety has approved 13 field trials of genetically
to a 13.4% rise in revenues for Dow favourable currency factors. Authority’s (EFSA) involvement in the modified crops under new rules that
AgroSciences to US$1,091 million in the process. It plans to remove the EFSA’s came into effect this year. It received
second quarter of 2007. Double-digit ■ Strong North American sales resulted role of evaluating draft assessment 14 applications, of which 12 were for
volume gains for both the agrochemical in a 12.8% increase in Chemtura’s reports produced by rapporteur member GM maize, one for tobacco and one for
and seed businesses resulted in “another crop protection revenues to US$97 states for each ai. potatoes.
outstanding quarter and an excellent first million in the second quarter of 2007.
half”, the company said. The company points to strong volume ■ BASF and chemical company Skyanide ■ The “vast majority” of respondents to
growth for insecticides, acaricides and have provisionally agreed to collaborate a European Commission consultation do
■ Significantly higher sales in Brazil herbicides in the region. with German authorities to limit the not support the proposal for the European
contributed to an 18.9% increase in FMC’s use of the herbicide, chloridazon. The Food Safety Authority to charge fees for
agrochemical sales to US$219.2 million in EUROPE agreement follows a study that found processing approval applications, the
the second quarter of 2007. The business elevated levels of the ai’s decomposition Commission says. Most stakeholders
benefited from increased plantings of ■ The European Court of First Instance product, chloridazon-desphenyl, in believe the system would be complex and
sugar cane for ethanol production and has suspended the restrictions ground and drinking water in November difficult to put into place.
from larger maize and cotton acreages. imposed on the fungicide, flusilazole, last year.
as part of its listing in Annex I of ■ The European grain, feed and
■ Italian agrochemical company Isagro’s the EU agrochemical registration ■ The European Commission has invited biotechnology industries have urged
sales jumped by 25.4% to €53.2 million Directive (91/414). DuPont applied comments on Poland’s plans to introduce EU regulatory authorities to take a
(US$71.7 million) in the second quarter for an annulment of the European legislation that would allow the country more practical attitude to imports of
of 2007. First-half sales rebounded after Commission’s decision last year to re- to ban the cultivation of genetically genetically modified crops. Action
a large fall in 2006, rising by 26.8% to register flusilazole for just 18 months modified crops. The new rules would is needed to prevent the low-level
€100.9 million. on certain crops. conflict with EU law and, therefore, Poland presence of EU-unapproved GM
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