EU Anti-Coagulant Regulations Update

The npta are reporting the EU ENVI committee accepted the amendment from Christa Klass which means that the anti-coagulants will be allowed to be sold and used for all the usual purposes.

Updated article from the ntpa:

Update 24 June 2010

Congratulations ……
It was very uplifting that so many NPTA members took on board the plea, that appeared in the April ’NPTA News’, to write to MEPs to show support against the EU proposal to ban anti-coagulants.

As well as the tremendous amount of support from members, the NPTA also wrote to all the MEPs and the media. The NPTA has worked exceedingly hard on your behalf and has attended meetings, conducted interviews for television, newspapers and radio stations and has pushed to make the relevant bodies aware of the proposal and get all those parties on board to help fight the proposal.

The good news is that the ENVI committee accepted the amendment from Christa Klass which means that anti-coagulants will be allowed to be sold and used for all the usual purposes. Well done to everyone who contacted their MEPs!

However, they also accepted an amendment which will mean that difenacoum can only be used in tamper-resistant boxes and by professional pest controllers. This amendment may well be changed before the regulations come into force because there is no common definition of professional users in the EU. In some countries it will include farmers but in other countries it may exclude them. This will make it impossible to enforce with any consistency.

This restriction will probably also apply to other active ingredients in due course if it is not changed.