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n The European Patent Office (EPO) has Industries/Stähler Agrochemie’s cereal n European work sharing in the which were in the second round of the EU
revoked Monsanto’s patent, EP 301749 herbicide, beflubutamid. registration of agrochemicals is review. EU member states are to withdraw
B1, for a genetic modification process becoming more efficient, but requires approvals for carbaryl- and trichlorfon-
for soybean plants. The decision followed n Cotton planting in Spain is to remain further collaboration and harmonisation, based products by 21 November 2007.
an appeal by Syngenta and the Canadian depressed, according to the USDA’s Foreign according to EU experts. Representatives Any period allowed for the sale and use
Environmental Technology Centre (ETC). Agricultural Service (FAS). Last year’s of work-sharing initiatives evaluated of existing stocks should be as short as
The EPO’s Technical Board of Appeal area declined in response to EU Common successes and challenges for the re- possible and expire by 21 November 2008
accepted the view of Syngenta and the ETC Agricultural Policy reforms. The changes registration of crop protection products in at the latest, the Commission says.
that the invention lacked novelty. reduced the Spanish cotton area eligible the EU at an IIR agrochemical registration
for subsidies to 70,000 ha. The FAS says conference in Brussels, Belgium, in May. n Scientists have submitted two
n The European Commission has that Spain’s cotton plantings fell by a In the central Europe zone, Belgium, applications for field trials with genetically
confirmed that EU member states quarter last year to 60,000 ha, and that Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands modified disease-resistant wheat in
may extend provisional approvals 9,000 ha were not harvested due to a are undertaking a work-sharing project. Switzerland. If approved, the Zurich
by up to two years for six new active cost-cutting drive. It expects a similar Work-sharing at re-registration is very University’s Institute of Plant Biology and
ingredients. The ais are Isagro’s single trend this year. effective, and duplication of work can be the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
isomer fungicide, benalaxyl-M, Bayer greatly reduced, leading to a much more Zurich (ETH) would collaborate on the
CropScience’s fungicides, fluoxastrobin efficient system,” Anne-Marie Dillon of the project. If the competent authority, the
and prothioconazole, Dow AgroSciences’ Irish Department of Agriculture’s Pesticide federal environment office, the BAFU,
fumigant, sulfuryl fluoride, and Bayer’s Control Service. approves the tests, they would become
acaricides/insecticides, spirodiclofen and the first since the country’s 2005 five-year
spiromesifen . n Dow AgroSciences is preparing to moratorium on the cultivation of GM crops.
resubmit data to support the nematicide,
n The European Commission has placed 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D),through the NORTH AMERICA
restrictions on the use of tolylfluanid- n The UK Department for the EU review of existing active ingredients.
based fungicides to prevent the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs In May, the EU Standing Committee on the n The US EPA’s Office of Pesticide
contamination of drinking water. The move (DEFRA) has approved a second trial Food Chain and Animal Health voted in Programs (OPP) has scheduled
follows the discovery in Germany that the site for BASF’s planned UK field trials favour of a European Commission proposal registration decisions on a further four
tolylfluanid metabolite, dimethylsulfamide, of genetically modified potatoes. not to re-register the ai .However, Dow new active ingredients in its latest
could be converted to the toxic substance, The company plans to test potatoes maintains that additional data provided quarterly work plan. Decisions on DuPont’s
nitrosamine, when water supplies are resistant to late blight (Phytophthora was not considered in the latest decision. insecticide, chlorantraniliprole, and
processed . infestans) at a site in East Yorkshire. Arkema’s fumigant, dimethyl disulfide, are
Last year, DEFRA approved trials in n The European Commission has set for the second quarter of fiscal 2008.
n The EU Standing Committee on the Food Cambridgeshire and Derbyshire, but set the phase-out schedule for the The OPP has provisionally scheduled a
Chain and Animal Health (SCFCAH) has the Derbyshire site was later dropped. carbamate insecticide, carbaryl, and the decision on Ajay North America’s fungicide,
given positive votes for full EU approval of DEFRA says that it is satisfied that organophosphate insecticide, trichlorfon. potatassium tri-iodide, for the fourth
two more new active ingredients. They are the trials pose no negative impact for The withdrawals follow the decision quarter of fiscal 2008 and Cheminova’s
Certis’ bio-insecticide, Spodoptera exigua the environment or human health. The by the EU authorities last year not to fungicide, flutriafol, for the third quarter of
nuclear polyhedrosis virus (NPV), and Ube approval is valid until 2011. reregister the active ingredients, both of fiscal 2009.
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