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Shadow Zones: Transparency and Pesticides Regulation in the European Union

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2019

Olivia HAMLYN
Olivia HAMLYN*
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Birkbeck College, University of London
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Abstract

In recent years, pesticides have captured the attention of both policymakers and the general public. A particular focus has been the transparency of the EU-level procedure for approving active substances, spurred by controversies surrounding the active substance glyphosate. Active substances are the ingredient in pesticides with the pesticidal effect. Once an active substance is approved at EU level, the pesticide containing that active substance must be authorised by each Member State. For this purpose, the EU's 2009 Plant Protection Product Regulation divides Member States into three zones—Northern, Central, and Southern—within which, zonal rapporteur Member States evaluate applications for authorisation. National authorisation decisions are based on these zonal evaluations. This novel system governing pesticides is under-researched. Furthermore, unlike active substance approval, the transparency of pesticide authorisation escapes public and policy scrutiny. Drawing on empirical research conducted for the European Parliament, this article evaluates the transparency of the zonal pesticide authorisation procedure. It thus contributes to the literature on transparency a detailed exploration of transparency in a highly complex, decentred, and polycentric risk regulation regime. While it finds that the zonal pesticide authorisation procedure, generally speaking, does not operate transparently, it argues further that levels of transparency within the regime as a whole may vary significantly depending on multiple different factors. It introduces the concept of ‘chiaroscuro regulation’ to characterise and understand these varying levels of transparency across different elements of the regime and considers some of its implications.

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transparencypesticidesrisk regulationregulationgovernanceEuropean Union
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Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies , Volume 21 , December 2019 , pp. 243 - 272
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Footnotes

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I am grateful to Dr Steven Vaughan and Prof Cosmo Graham for their comments on earlier drafts of this article. I presented parts of this research at the 2018 LSA annual meeting in Toronto and the 2018 SLS annual conference in London. My thanks to the participants for their thoughts. I am also grateful to the editors and anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments. Any mistakes are my own.

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5 Discussed further in Part III.

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93 Ibid, Art 11(1)–(2) second paragraph.

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109 Ibid, pp 18, 19, 26–29.

110 Ibid, pp 40–42.

111 Ibid, pp 41–42.

112 See PPPR, Art 33(4); ibid.

113 PPPR, Rec 29, Art 3(17), Annex I.

114 Ibid, Rec 25.

115 Ibid, Rec 29.

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118 PPPR, Art 33.

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120 Ibid, pp 7–8.

121 PPPR, Art 36(1) first paragraph.

122 Ibid, Art 36(1) second paragraph. See Part IV.B.

123 Regulation (EU) No 546/2011 [2011] OJ L155/127. The Uniform Principles establish a harmonised methodology and thresholds for assessing and determining the acceptability of risks posed by pesticides, SAM, EU Authorisation Processes of Plant Protection Products - from a Scientific Point of View Scientific Opinion 5/2018 (EUR-OP, 2018), p 50.

124 PPPR, Art 36(1) first and third paragraphs.

125 Ibid, Art 37(1).

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127 Ibid, pp 13–14.

128 Ibid, p 14.

129 PPPR, Art 36(2)–(3).

130 Ibid, Art 36(3) first and second paragraphs.

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132 Ibid, pp 90–91.

133 Uniform Principles, note 123 above.

134 PPPR, Art 60(3).

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136 Ibid, p 13.

137 ANSES, Press Kit: New Missions for ANSES in the Area of Plant Protection Products, Fertilisers and Growing Media (2015), p 7.

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139 Ibid, p 92.

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141 These exceptions relate to the adverse effects of disclosure on ‘international relationship, public security or national defence’; ‘the course of justice’ for example ensuring fair trials or criminal investigations; and ‘intellectual property rights’.

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150 OECD, The Governance of Regulators’ Practices: Accountability, Transparency and Co-ordination (OECD, 2016), p 45.

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164 Ibid, Art 29(6) second paragraph.

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171 I am grateful to the editors/anonymous peer reviewer, for clarifying this point.

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204 See Part IV.B.

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209 PPPR, Art 33.

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217 As suggested by SAM, note 123 above, p 39.

218 Yackee, S Webb, ‘Reconsidering Agency Capture during Regulatory Policymaking’ in Carpenter, DP and Moss, DA (eds), Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and how to Limit it (Cambridge University Press, 2014)Google Scholar and references therein.

219 Schauer, note 67 above, pp 1348–49.

220 Tweedale, note 148 above; Hautala, note 148 above.

221 See Parts III.B, IV.A.2.