1. By way of derogation from Article 6 and Article 15 (2), an active substance complying with the criteria provided for in Article 4 shall be approved once for a period not exceeding five years , where other already approved active substances or alternative agricultural methods or practices are significantly less toxic for consumers or operators or present significantly fewer risks for the environment.

serious consideration must be given to issues such as resistance to plant protection products, integrated pest management and good viable alternative agricultural practice;

serious consideration must be given to issues such as resistance to plant protection products, integrated pest management and good viable alternative agricultural practice;

I believe it would be a mistake to reduce the cultivation of tobacco or do away with it altogether. My reasons are that this would entail a high social cost and that no suitable alternative crops have been identified.

What the enactment would do is provide cost of production protection to family farms in cases where the weighted average input cost of products typically produced or suited to production in a farming zone exceeds the weighted average net back to farm gate of such products averaged over three years.

A brief overview is given below: PROMOTING AGRICULTURAL COMPETITIVENESS Reductions in production costs, improvements in the hygienic quality of consumer products and in availability of fodder resources in dry seasons, and demonstration of new and useful agricultural activities in the Mediterranean region are examples of socio-economic advantages opened through the results under this programme area which only got effectively underway in 1985. - 3 - PROMOTING INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVENESS The encouraging achievements so far of the programmes ESPRIT, BRITE and RACE are well known, ...[+++]but work in important areas like standards and reference materials which are in constant demand for industrial purposes has continued in both the nuclear and non-nuclear field. Research on steel, high temperature materials and substitution materials has led to improvements in cost competitiveness and increased Community independence vis-a-vis imported raw materials.