- Balance risks and benefits in policy-making
- Reinforce a science-based approach to policy-making
- Improve coordination between risk assessment and management
Five steps to promote innovation competitiveness and sustainable productivity.
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How do we find a way to sustainably feed our rapidly growing population? With our natural resources getting scarcer every year, this is one of society's greatest challenges. And efficient management is key.
We need to fundamentally change the European Union’s approach to policy-making so that it can meet this challenge, remain competitive in the global market, and become a leader in agricultural innovation.
By innovating today, we can meet the challenges of tomorrow.
- Run a regulatory fitness check of the crop protection sector
- Improve impact assessment in policy-making
- Implementing smarter and better regulation
- The EU should ensure consistency between regulation, policies and international agreements.
- Adopt an Innovation Principle in EU decision-making
- Reinforce protection of intellectual property rights
- The EU must boost agricultural competitiveness and productivity in a sustainable way
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ECPA acts as the ambassador of the crop protection industry in Europe and represents the industry's European regional network. We promote modern agricultural technology in the context of sustainable development, one which protects the health of humans and the environment, and, in doing so, seek to build understanding of our role on why pesticides are needed, recognition of our contribution towards an affordable healthy diet, competitive agriculture and high quality of life, and uphold informed dialogue about our views, values and beliefs.
Key challenges and opportunities for the European agri-food sector: The combined agricultural and food sector accounts today for 30 million jobs (13.4% of total employment) and for 3.5% of total Gross Value Added in the EU-28. To meet the challenges of the coming years, the EU and Member States require ambitious policies - policies that unlock the great potential of the European agri-food chain and maintain its place as a world leader.
