After consulting the national reference laboratories, the Commission shall set the priorities for the validation studies and allocate the tasks between those laboratories for carrying out those studies.

Plant protection products which do not comply with the condition referred to in subparagraph (a) but which do comply with the all the other conditions referred to in this paragraph shall be deemed to be identical to the reference product if a comparative assessment by a laboratory officially recognised in accordance with the Principles of Good Laboratory Practice, which is submitted to the competent authority of the importing Member State by the applicant, or a comparative assessment by the competent authority, confirms that the plant protection product in respect of which an import permit is requested is, in substance, identical to the ...[+++]reference product and that the following requirements are met:

Mr. Barry Smith (Director, Ammunition Program Management, Department of National Defence): We haven't done anything specifically for fish, but we have done a sediment study in the lake, as Mr. Giroul has mentioned.

According to a study by Carles Ibáñez Martí, the Ebro delta is one of the areas worst affected by the build-up of river sediment. The study estimates that the reservoirs in the river catchment area, which number almost 200, are the cause of the build-up of more than 99% of the sediment once carried down the river (Guillén y Palanques 1992, Ibáñez et al. 1996).

As we've seen from the sediment study, the pathogens and the sewage—and remember, in B.C. this is the same amount of sewage as a city of 500,000.

In every case where we have examined the lake sediments, we found huge increases in deposition of sediments, indicating increased erosion, and the deposition of phosphorus and nitrogen, indicating a problem with over-fertilization, causing eutrophication and all of the problems with algal blooms and oxygen depletion, et cetera, that are connected with it.