European Crop Care Association
Budget
€500 — €0
EP Access
1
accredited persons
Staff
3
1.75 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
The associations goals are: - to inform its members about legislation and regulation in the EU and its Member States affecting their business; - to research into common solutions of any legal, financial, scientific and technical issues caused by community or national legislation or regulation, with the intention to improve or develop the members' economic activities; - to represent its members in all occurring situations towards the European Institutions and Memberstates; - to be the single point of contact of its members for regulatory authorities at any level with regard to the placing on the market of substances and products; - to organise meetings between its members, and/or with regulatory authorities, to distribute information, to develop, draft and distribute proposals on possible solutions for common problems to regulatory authorities, and to legally represent its members.
EU Legislative Interests
Regulation 1107/2009 on the placing on the market of plant protection products, and all related files, such as: - Uniform Principles, - Labelling Requirements, - Data requirements for substances and products, - Basic substances, - Low Risk substances, - Candidates for substitution and Comparative Assessment, - Approval Criteria, - conditions and restrictions, - Endocrine Disruptors, - Developmental Neurotoxicity and Immunotoxicity, - Zonal Authorisations and worksharing, - Mutual Recognition of authorisations, - Harmonisation of Memberstate specific requirements, - Renewal of approvals and authorisations, - coformulants and adjuvants, - safeners and synergists, - Dossier formatting, - Data Protection, - Procedural and Technical Guidance covering the provisions of the Regulation Regulation 396/2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in food and feed; Directive 2009/128 on the sustainable use of pesticides; Directive 2009/127 on machinery for pesticide application; Regulation 1272/2008 on Classification, Labelling and Packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP Regulation); Regulation 1907/2006 , REACH Regulation Regulation 649/2012 on import/export of dangerous chemicals, the PIC-Regulation; Regulation 178/2002 Foodlaw; Commission Regulation repealing Commission Regulation (EU) No 547/2011 of 8 June 2011 regarding labelling requirements for plant protection products Legislation on: - Intellectual Property, - Public Access to information (incl. so-called Aarhus Regulation), - pesticides allowed in organic agriculture - fertilisers and biostimulants - soil and water policy
Communication Activities
- bee-health policy, - endocrine disruptor policy, - transparency initiative, - Food and Feed Safety Simplification Omnibus - REFIT programme - Sustainable use of pesticides
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
Members of ECCA are associate to national crop protection associations in selected Member States.
Organisation Members
http://www.ecca-org.eu/members/
Additional Information
ECCA is funded primarily through membership fees paid by its member companies and, to a lesser extent, through outreach activities such as the organisation of conferences and other events. Expenditures are mainly dedicated to legal assistance, communication activities and regulatory support services provided to our members.
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.