Division TERMS AND DEFINITIONS

Correspondence with the criteria set out in Article 19(1)(b)

The subheadings ‘Effects on human and animal health’, ‘Effects on the Environment’, ‘Effects on Target Organisms’ and ‘Efficacy’ used in the Sections ‘Assessment’ and ‘Conclusions’ correspond to the four criteria set out in Article 19(1)(b) as follows:

• ‘Efficacy’ corresponds to criterion (i): ‘is sufficiently effective’.

• ‘Effects on target organisms’ corresponds to criterion (ii): ‘has no unacceptable effects on the target organisms, in particular unacceptable resistance or cross resistance or unnecessary suffering and pain for vertebrates’.

• ‘Effects on human and animal health’ corresponds to criterion (iii): ‘has no immediate or delayed unacceptable effects itself, or as a result of its residues, on human health, including that of vulnerable groups^f1, or animal health, directly or through drinking water, food, feed, air, or through other indirect effects’.

• ‘Effects on the environment’ corresponds to criterion iv: ‘has no unacceptable effects itself, or as a result of its residues, on the environment, having particular regard to the following considerations:

  • its fate and distribution in the environment,

  • contamination of surface waters (including estuarial and seawater), groundwater and drinking water, air and soil, taking into account locations distant from its use following long-range environmental transportation,

  • its impact on non-target organisms,

  • its impact on biodiversity and the ecosystem’.