In cases where there are serious concerns about the potential for adverse effects on fertility or development, an enhanced one- generation reproductive toxicity study, with or without a pre-natal developmental toxicity module (Tier II, section 6.7.3), may be proposed by the applicant instead of the screening study.

3. Calls on the Commission to put out to tender, and finance, a scientific project aimed at supplying an estimation model for the size and structure of the total cormorant population on the basis of currently available data on breeding population, fertility and mortality;

As several recent studies on fertility in Europe show, the babies born later will not be able to compensate for those not born when their parents were younger.

In cases where there are serious concerns about the potential for adverse effects on fertility or development, either a pre-natal developmental toxicity study (Annex IX, section 8.7.2) or a two-generation reproductive toxicity study (Annex IX, section 8.7.3) may be proposed by the

For land-based biological resources, research will focus on: soil fertility, improved crops and production systems in all their diversity, including organic farming, quality production schemes and monitoring and assessment of the impact of GMOs on the environment and humans; plant health, sustainable, competitive and multifunctional agriculture, and forestry; rural development; animal health and welfare, breeding and production; infectious diseases in animals, including epidemiological studies, zoonoses and their pathogenic mechanisms, and diseases linked to animal feedstuffs; other threats to the sustainability and security of food ...[+++] production, including climate change; safe disposal of animal waste.

6.8.2. Fertility study - at least two generations, one species, male and female