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The Glyphosate Saga, A Further but Not a Final Step: The CJEU Confirms the Validity of the Regulation on Plant Protection Products in Light of the Precautionary Principle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2020

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Alessandra DONATI*
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Doctorate of law from the University Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne and Attorney at law in Italy and France; Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law in Luxembourg, email: alessandra.donati@mpi.lu
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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 2020 , pp. 148 - 154
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References

1 European Parliament resolution of 24 October 2017 on the draft Commission implementing regulation renewing the approval of the active substance glyphosate in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 [2017] 2017/2904 RSP, whereas B.Google Scholar

2 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2017/2324 of 12 December 2017 renewing the approval of the active substance glyphosate in accordance with Regulation No 1107/2009, and amending the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 [2017] OJ L 309/10.

3 International Agency for Research on Cancer, Monograph 112 (2015) <monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol112/mono112-10.pdf> (last accessed 12 December 2019).

4 European Food Safety Authority, “Conclusion on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance glyphosate” (2015) 13(11) EFSA Journal 4302, <efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2903/j.efsa.2015.4302> (last accessed 20 December 2019).

5 European Chemicals Agency, Committee for Risk Assessment, Opinion proposing harmonized classification and labelling at EU level of glyphosate (2017) <echa.europa.eu/documents/10162/2f8b5c7f-030f-5d3a-e87e-0262fb392f38> (last accessed 12 December 2019).

6 ‘Monsanto papers, désinformation organisée autour du glyphosate’ Le Monde (2017) <www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2017/10/04/monsanto-papers-desinformation-organisee-autour-du-glyphosate_5195771_3244.html> (last accessed 20 December 2019).

7 ‘EU report on weedkiller safety copied text from Monsanto study’ The Guardian (2017) <www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/15/eu-report-on-weedkiller-safety-copied-text-from-monsanto-study> (last accessed 12 December 2019); ‘La valutazione dei rischi UE copiata dai documenti di Monsanto’ La Stampa (2017), <www.lastampa.it/tuttogreen/2017/09/15/news/glifosato-la-valutazione-dei-rischi-ue-copiata-dai-documenti-monsanto-1.34420260> (last accessed 12 December 2019).

8 Case no 1704067 [2019].

9 ‘Autriche, le Parlement approuve l’interdiction totale du glyphosate’ Le Monde (2019) <www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2019/07/02/autriche-le-parlement-approuve-l-interdiction-totale-du-glyphosate_5484459_3244.html> (last accessed 12 December 2019).

10 Case C-616/17, Blaise and others, EU:C:2019:800.

11 Case C-616/17, Blaise and others, Opinion of AG Sharpston, EU:C:2019:190, para 32.

12 Blaise and others, supra, note 10, para 27.

13 ibid, para 28.

14 Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC [2009] OJ L 309/50.

15 Opinion of AG Sharpston, supra, note 11, para 43.

16 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2017/2324, supra, note 2.

17 Opinion of AG Sharpston, supra, note 11, para 46.

18 Blaise and others, supra, note 10, para 50.

19 ibid, para 57.

20 ibid, para 61.

21 ibid, para 76.

22 See in this regard, Arts 8(1), 8(5), 11(3), 12(3), 21(1), 21(3) and 37(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, supra note 14.

23 Blaise and others, supra, note 10, para 88.

24 ibid, para 100.

25 ibid, para 115.

26 ibid, para 116.

27 O De Schutter, “Foreword” in P Clausing, Chronically Underrated, A Review of the European Carcinogenic Hazard Assessment of 10 Pesticides (Pesticide Action Network, the Health and Environment Alliance 2019).

28 A Donati, Le principe de précaution en droit de l’Union européenne (Thèse, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne 2019).

29 Case T-13/99, Pfizer Animal Health v Council, ECLI:EU:T:2002:209; Case T-333/10, Animal Trading Co and others v European Commission, ECLI:EU:T:2013:451.

30 Case T-93/94, Michael Becker v Court of Auditors of the European Communities, ECLI:EU:T:1996:30, para 37; Case T-369/03, Arizona Chemical BV and Others v Commission of the European Communities, ECLI:EU:T:2005:458, para 84.

31 Animal Trading Co and others v European Commission, supra note 29, para 84.

32 Pfizer Animal Health v Council, supra note 29, para 172.

33 Case C-691/15 P, European Commission v Bilbaína de Alquitranes, SA and Others, ECLI:EU:C:2017:882, para 47.

34 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2017/2324, supra, note 2.

35 Case C-290/07, European Commission v Scott SA, ECLI:EU:C:2010:480 para 90.

36 Resolution of 24 October 2017, supra note 1 paras 1 and 2.

37 Opinion of AG Sharpston, supra, note 11, para 83.

38 European Parliament legislative resolution of 17 April 2019 on the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transparency and sustainability of the EU risk assessment in the food chain amending Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 [on general food law], Directive 2001/18/EC [on the deliberate release into the environment of GMOs], Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 [on GM food and feed], Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 [on feed additives], Regulation (EC) No 2065/2003 [on smoke flavourings], Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 [on food contact materials], Regulation (EC) No 1331/2008 [on the common authorisation procedure for food additives, food enzymes and food flavourings], Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 [on plant protection products] and Regulation (EU) No 2015/2283 [on novel foods] [2019] 2018/0088(COD).

39 ibid, Art 32(d) and Art 39(b).

40 ibid, Art 32(b).

41 ibid.

42 Blaise and others, supra, note 10, para 48.

43 The current authorisation of glyphosate, granted for a period of five years, will expire in 2022.