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Evaluation of the Community Plant Health Regime: Final Report
DG SANCO Evaluation Framework Contract Lot 3 (Food Chain)
balance for society is positive and measures are fair to individual growers or private
persons 28 ;
Ensuring food security (e.g. in the context of rising world population and constraints
on the availability of arable land, which result in rising overall food prices); and
Safeguarding the natural environment (public and private green, forests, landscape).
However, society can pose contradictory demands in terms of environmental, social and
economic sustainability, and in many cases tension exists between these basic aims. Some
citizens may be in favour of preventive measures aimed at long-term protection of the
environment, while others would be against such measures because of the short-term costs
and impacts. The functioning and balance of the CPHR therefore needs to be evaluated within
this context.
2.4 Distribution of responsibilities
The specific and operational objectives of the CPHR are implemented by various activities
and interventions, as laid down in the Directive. These are pursued at different levels,
including aspects of subsidiarity (MS level) and Community added value (EU level), but in
some cases may also involve action at the level of international organisations (IPPC, EPPO),
as indicated in the following Table.
28 Indeed, the WTO-SPS Agreement as well as ISPM No. 2 (Import regulations. Guidelines for pest risk
analysis) and No. 11 (Pest risk analysis for quarantine pests including analysis of environmental risks and living
modified organisms) require that socio-economic impacts of phytosanitary measures must be taken into account
in pest risk management in addition to environmental impacts, and that costs and benefits must be assessed.
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