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Essential safety and quality requirements for fertilising materials

Essential safety and quality requirements for fertilising materials. Fertilisers Working Group meeting 17 th March 2014. 1. Source of information. Outcomes of the Technical Working Groups (TWGs) of 2012 including the comments received after December 2012

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Essential safety and quality requirements for fertilising materials

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  1. Essential safety and quality requirements for fertilising materials Fertilisers Working Group meeting 17th March 2014 1

  2. Source of information • Outcomes of the Technical Working Groups (TWGs) of 2012 including the comments received after December 2012 • Consultation of stakeholders during the preparation of the impact assessment report • Report of JRC Sevilla on EU EoW criteria for biodegradable waste • The proposed tolerances discussed in 2012 were also taken into account.

  3. General principles : safety • Safety of products must be ensured • Limit values based on scientific evidence and peer-reviewed • Limit values specific to each product categories taking into account their application rates • Critical materials (e.g. raw sewage sludge) should be listed in a negative list

  4. Review of the list of contaminants • Current list of contaminants : based on current practices • Risk-based limits are desirable in the long term • Safeguard clause of Reg 2003/2003 to be kept but mitigation measures are temporary • Revision of the Water Framework Directive or the limit values for contaminants in foodstuffs would trigger the revision of contaminants list where relevant for fertilisers • REACH restriction mechanisms as a possible way to ban hazardous substances present in fertilisers (with the help of existing REACH committees – RAC+SEAC )

  5. General principles : efficacy • Minimum quality requirements should help distinguishing products without stifling innovation • Minimum quality requirements should be specififc to each product category • Labelling information should help farmers to make optimal use of fertilising materials • Member States should recommend application rates for fertilising materials based on labelling information and their specific soil and climatic conditions

  6. Inorganic fertilisers – Max. limit values for heavy metals in primary and secondary nutrient fertilisers

  7. Inorganic fertilisers – Max. limit values for heavy metals in micronutrient fertilisers-Minutes FWG 19.09.2009

  8. Inorganic fertiliser – Minimum nutrient content • Two different views on the minimum nutrient content for inorganic fertilisers. • Some Member States would support rather low limits for solid and fluid fertilisers to take into account products for specialist home use and horticulture adapted for low nutrient requirements and allow flexibility in the composition of NPK • Other Member States supported higher values (min. 3%) to prevent dilution of fertiliser with hazardous material and ensures the quality of products.

  9. Inorganic fertiliser – Minimum nutrient content A. Solid primary and secondary inorganic fertilisers

  10. Inorganic fertiliser – Minimum nutrient content B. Fluid primary and secondary inorganic fertilisers

  11. Inorganic fertiliser – Minimum nutrient content C. Micronutrient inorganic fertilisers (solid and fluid)

  12. Organic fertilisers – Max. limit values for contaminants (proposed by EU EoW)

  13. Organic fertilisers – Max. limit values for microorganisms – EU EoW

  14. Organic fertilisers – Max. limit values for viable weeds and propagules – EU EoW • 2 viable weed seeds per liter of compost/digestate

  15. Organic fertilisers – Max. limit values for macroscopic impurities – EU EoW • 0,5% on dry matter weight for glass, metal and plastics above 2 mm to be determined by dry sieving method. • Stone exceeding 5 mm : no proposed maximum limit value

  16. Organic fertilisers – Quality requirements

  17. Organo-mineral fertiliser • Split views between Member States on the need for such category • Essential agronomic criteria proposed by some Member States limited to minimum nutrient and organic matter content: not enough to justify the creation of a specific product category, the market can differentiate these O-M fertilisers • Need to define more specific essential criteria enhancing the added value of such product (e.g. kinetic of release of nutrients if appropriate) that makes them different from blends • Safety criteria: proposal to use the limit values defined for organic fertilisers

  18. Liming materials – minimum quality requirements • Minimum NV : 15 (equivalent CaO) • 9 (equivalent OH) • Determined on the commercialised product

  19. Liming materials – Max. limit values for contaminants

  20. Organic soil improver – Quality criteria (EU EoW)

  21. Organic soil improver – max limits for contaminants – EU EoW criteria

  22. Growing media – Safety criteria Maximum limit values for contaminants in GM (mg/kg dry matter)

  23. Way forward • Comments are welcome until the end of May • Next Fertilisers Working Group: presentation of the labelling requirements

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