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Chapter 4<br />

laminarin is available on wheat <strong>and</strong> cereals, <strong>and</strong> no <strong>biological</strong> plant protection products are<br />

registered for rape, maize or potatoes.<br />

None of the EU Member States covered in the present survey shows such a variety of BCAs as<br />

Switzerl<strong>and</strong> where we find the largest numbers of microbials, botanicals <strong>and</strong> pheromone blends<br />

authorised in the crops subject of the inquiry. Only France reaches the number of twelve microbial<br />

BCAs in registered products. The privileged situation in the Helvetic Confederation can be<br />

explained by the flexible regulatory approach of the competent authorities in the past, until the<br />

progressive implementation of EU directive 91/414/EEC <strong>and</strong> the related framework, as well as the<br />

sustained support by experts in confederal agronomic institutes.<br />

Invertebrate bio<strong>control</strong> agents<br />

Invertebrate bio<strong>control</strong> agents (BCAs) used in the five European countries of this survey are listed<br />

in Appendix 11.<br />

In France invertebrate BCAs cannot be registered <strong>and</strong> they do not yet need to be formally<br />

declared, but a law passed on 12 th July 2010 created the basis to establish rules governing the<br />

introduction into the environment of non-indigeneous macro-organisms useful to plants. Procedures<br />

<strong>and</strong> requirements for authorisations which will also cover non-indigeneous beneficial are expected<br />

to be set up for the in the coming months. The list provided in the present survey is based on the<br />

voluntary declarations to ACTA by the producers wishing to have their beneficials published in the<br />

non-official Index Phytosanitaire.<br />

Invertabrate BCAs must be registered in Germany. An official list which is regularly updated<br />

is published by the Julius Kühn Institute.<br />

In Spain companies which are responsible of commercialisation of IBCAs must give<br />

information to the Ministry of Agriculture to allow the inscription into a register before<br />

commercialisation (Orden APA/1470/2007). This information given is about name of commercial<br />

product, identification of the organism, the manufacturer, the company responsible for<br />

commercialisation. Another law (43/2002; 20 th of November 2002) covers the introduction of exotic<br />

organisms (article 44).<br />

In Switzerl<strong>and</strong> invertebrate BCAs must be formally approved by the BLW (Bundesamt für<br />

L<strong>and</strong>wirtschaft) <strong>and</strong> they are listed together with the plant protection products.<br />

In the United Kingdom no authorisation is required to release indigenous beneficials but the<br />

import (<strong>and</strong> release) of non indigenous species must be approved by the Advisory Committee for<br />

the Release of Exotics (ACRE acting under DEFRA).<br />

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