Regulation of Biological Control Agents - Ehlers, Ralf-Udo.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011)
General Aspects of Regulation -- 1. Regulation of biological control agents and the EU Policy Support Action REBECA -- 2. Regulation according to EU Directive 91/414: data requirements and procedure compared to regulation practice in other OECD countries -- 3. An international comparison of invertebrate biological control agent regulation: what can Europe learn? -- 4. Regulation of plant protection in organic farming -- 5. Policy aspects of regulation -- 6. Cost-benefit, risk and trade-off analysis of regulation -- Risks and Risk Assessment -- 7. Risks of microbial biocontrol agents and regulation: are they in balance? -- 8. Bacterial ecology and human pathogenicity of plant-associated bacteria -- 9. Metabolite toxicology of fungal biocontrol agents -- 10. Risks of biocontrol agents containing compounds of botanical origin or semiochemicals -- 11. Risks of invertebrate biological control agents - Harmonia axyridis as a case study -- Proposals for balanced regulation procedures -- 12. Facilitations in the regulation of plant protection products containing Baculoviruses -- 13. Proposals for bacterial and fungal biocontrol agents -- 14. Proposals for regulation of botanicals -- 15. Proposals for regulation of semiochemicals -- 16. Regulation of invertebrate biological control agents in Europe: recommendations for a harmonised approach -- 17.           Proposals on how to accelerate registration of biological control agents -- Index.
Keywords: Agriculture; Plant science; Botany; Environmental management; Environmental law; Environmental policy; Life sciences; Agriculture; Plant Sciences; Environmental Management; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Life Sciences, general