Policy resources

This policy brief calls for a major shift in EU pesticide regulation, arguing that current assessments of individual substances fail to address the cumulative environmental impacts of pesticide use across landscapes, and that many pesticide bans are unnecessary if the scale of use is managed.

A technical support document for the PollinERA Policy brief “A Regional Budget System for Pesticide Management: Systems-first environmental risk assessment: the case for change"

This brief was developed to address one of the core challenges identified in the project: The need to improve the way environmental risks to pollinators are currently assessed. The current approach works in isolation, overlooks cumulative impacts and bases decisions solely on binary “safe/unsafe” categories. This brief suggests a systems-first, tools-second approach that can deliver faster, cheaper and effective decision making by prioritising simulation and systems understanding before developing regulatory tools for Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA).

A technical support document for the PollinERA Policy brief “Reforming EU chemical risk assessment: from regulatory bottlenecks to systems solution