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The Regulatory Framework on Plant Protection Products in the United Kingdom after Brexit

On 3 May 2017, the UK’s House of Lords’ Energy and Environment Sub-Committee of the European Union Committee published a report entitled Brexit: agriculture (hereinafter, the report). According to the report, the UK’s agriculture and food sector will face “enormous challenges” following Brexit, both in relation to trade with the EU and within its own borders. A regulated area where non-tariff barriers might occur is the area of plant protection products (often just referred to as “pesticides”) and their residues in food. Brexit could, however, also present opportunities, as the report notes, with the country moving away from the EU’s “one size fits all” policies on food and farming. In particular, in the area of pesticides, there could be a shift from the EU’s current arguably more “precautionary approach” to regulating chemicals, which emphasises the hazards of a given substance, to a more “risk-based approach”.