Plant protection products (pesticides) have many benefits,
including helping ensure we have access to sufficient quantities
of good quality reasonably priced foodstuffs, clean urban
environments, maintaining transport infrastructures,and
controlling invasive species. The Government believes that we
can best minimise the risk of adverse impacts through a range of
statutory and voluntary controls. It is important however that
the range of controls complement each other and have clearly
defined outcomes. The Government has therefore published the UK
Pesticides Strategy which does this. The Strategy foreshadows
the requirements of the EU Thematic Strategy for Pesticides. -
UK Pesticides Strategy. The Strategy provides a framework for
plant protection product legislation, policies and initiatives
contribute to goals promoting sustainable development. It will
do this by helping to protect the countryside and natural
resources, supporting sustainable food and farming and
sustainable consumption and production. It wi