Food safety and phytosanitary issues Sample Clauses

Food safety and phytosanitary issues. Proper management of pesticides or other agricultural chemicals mean increased revenues for the farmer, through lower costs and increased opportunities for trade in agricultural produce (due to fewer residues), as well as important health benefits and lower threats for the environment. The (FAO) International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides sets the appropriate Framework for potential activities. The Commission has been actively supporting initiatives in this field, such as integrated pest management programmes, the African Stockpile initiative, or different programmes in the field of Maximum Pesticide Residue Levels (M RL). On a more global level, the EU is committed to proper chemicals management through its participation in the Rotterdam Convention, within which a capacity building programme is under development, and in the International Plant Protection Convention, which aims at preventing the spread and introduction of pests and to promote appropriate measures for their control. Policy dialogue on all these aspect is certainly relevant within the Strategic Partnership. Certain operational activities that could also be envisaged are: • Supporting countries in implementing the FAO Code of Conduct and related Conventions programmes. The collaboration could comprise: i) providing expertise to capacity building, policy formulation, drafting national legislation, ii) providing technical advice for the introduction of monitoring and control regimes, iii) facilitation of participatory policy development processes involving all stakeholders. • Developing pre-normative technical guidelines to facilitate the use of pesticide residue data from one crop to set values for another and to enhance the use of residues data from one country or region to help set standards in others. The EU has a limited set of guidelines but it is poor for tropical crops and for pre-harvest applications. FAO, using expert consultations and working groups, has the potential to improve it and make it globally functional. This would in addition facilitate the setting of MRLs for tropical crops by Codex and by the Commission, thus improving trading opportunities for these crops. • Providing support and expertise to countries in order to allow them to deliver appropriate data in the EU/Codex processes for fixing Maximum Residue Levels of pesticides. • Extending the scope of implementation of Integrated Pest Management programmes, in particular through a second phase...
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