date:Oct 20, 2022
The European Commission's proposed revision of Directive 2009/128/EC on the sustainable use of plant protection products was published on June 22. This proposal, which is still on the table today, would amend the current directive (the most restrictive in the world) and turn it into a regulation. It is no trivial change, since a directive entails imposing an end result, but not the means to achieve it, and a regulation is directly applicable as a whole.
The new regulation is one of the key inst