PRE-EMERGENCE spray onto rye Proposals for a simpler and more efficient plant protection products (PPPs) regulatory regime have been put forward by the Agricultural Industries Confederation. This comes in response to the Government’s consultation on the revised National Action Plan for the Sustainable Use of Pesticides. Head of agronomy and crop protection sector at AIC, Hazel Doonan, said: “AIC has stressed that decisions based on sound, relevant science, provide more protection to human health and the environment than those based on emotion or politics. To that end, we support greater transparency on the way evidence is used to inform decisions on PPPs.