Approved plant protection products "notebook".

GROUPS, ORDERLY AND HARMONISED WAY,ALL THE ELEMENTS TO BE REGISTERED BY OWNERS OF AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS.

The Ministry of agriculture, Food and environment, MAGRAMA, It has approved, prior consensus with the autonomous communities, a model of notebook of exploitation of plant protection products.The book brings together, in an organized and harmonized, all the elements that owners of agricultural holdings must be recorded, in order to facilitate compliance with the rules of sustainable use of plant protection products to record information about the use of plant protection products.

For the MAGRAMA, this is the first step to set up a national system of traceability and hygiene in agricultural production.

The adoption of the new notebook, It took place at the last meeting of the Standing Committee on national, It represents the first step giving together the Ministry and the autonomous communities to put in place a national system of traceability and hygiene in primary agricultural production.

This first element will be completed in the coming months with the launch up a register of agricultural holdings at the national level, that has already begun to be discussed with the CC. AA.

The adoption of this model of notebook is intended to introduce criteria of sustainability in agricultural crops. In this way, will be allowed to strengthen the Spanish position in the European and international markets with products of higher quality and more secure for consumers, guaranteeing at the same time the competitiveness and economic viability of holdings, According to the MAGRAMA.