For the protection of biodiversity, the German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA) pursues the goal of establishing compensation areas to balance unavoidable indirect effects on nature and the environment caused by the application of plant protection products. In the European Journal of Risk Regulation Dr. Alexander Koof provides a legal assessment whether there is a legal basis for this within either European Union or national law. Dr. Koof provides a comprehensive legal assessment of whether it is legally permissible to make plant protection product authorisations contingent to compensatory application provisions to protect biodiversity.
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