Wyn Grant Biopesticides and regulation

Our book on biopesticides Has helpful material – we don’t get big royalties (I would rather tyou bought my book on European football)

Plan of presentation Move from general to specific Brief introduction to some general political science findings on regulation Then move to consideration of legislation affecting biopesticides and look at recent changes in EU regulatory framework

The rise of regulatory state Work of Mick Moran Night watchman state Keynesian welfare state Regulatory state Important driver is pressure from public and media But also special nature of EU

Convergence/divergence Regulatory convergence in principle helps business and launch/marketing of innovative new products Role of OECD in fostering convergence of content and procedures in biopesticides Still big differences between US + other Anglosphere countries and then EU

Lessons from finance sector Weakening of international standards possible Admittedly role of US especially important in this area Biopesticides a very technical area and experts remain the same But effects of fiscal consolidation

Situation within EU Eurozone crisis brings home difficulties of one size fits all approach Single market key gain of EU but not achieved in relation to biopesticides regulation Variable quality of national agencies Efforts to overcome that

In an ideal world EU wide biopesticides agency that would issue approvals covering 27 member states Would provide body of expertise and overcome synthetics bias/lack of knowledge sometimes apparent Dream on – make what we have work

Cooperation not conflict To provide solutions to make biopesticides widely available

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