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Groupe Roullier: a French family-owned businessPlant nutrition – Animal nutrition - Food
7900 employees – 2.5 B€ turnover
Fertilising products business in the EU:Present in 25 Member States
> 2500 people - 16 production sites1.5 B€ turnover
Tomorrow:
- A single market for fertilising products
- Ground for innovation due to thearchitecture of the regulation
- Reduced time to market for innovativeproducts
- Quality and safety criterias
- Administrative burden
Our experience from the regulatory landscape for fertilising products in the EU
Today:
- Reg. (EC) 2003/2003 is efficient formineral fertilisers but does not coverother fertilising products
- Time to market for innovativeproducts is extremely long
- Differences in products’ portfolioaccross countries
- Mutual recognition does not workwell
REACH registration of substances: over-requirements that will kill innovation
T/year
Substance registrationcost (€)
0 1 10 100
10 000
100 000 - 150 000
300 000• Real issue for biostimulants where
the volumes are considerablylower than other fertilisingproducts
• New substances will never make itto the market
REACH over-requirements introduced by the proposal
REACH requirements for substance registration
• Decadmination is not available for all types of P fertilisers.
• Not all phosphate rocks are the same (P2O5 content and solubility) and mustbe soluble to have fertilising properties
• Phosphate rock is the only input allowed in organic agriculture
• Phosphate recycling will never be sufficient to cover EU needs
• The impact assessment does not take into account the variability ofCadmium for a given source !
PhosphateRock
PhosphateRock
SSP
TSP
MAP
DAP
PhosphoricAcid
+ Sulfuric acid
+ Ammoniac
+ Phosphoric acid
SSP: Single superphosphateTSP: Triple superphosphateMAP: Monoammonium phosphateDAP: Diammonium phosphateASP: Ammonium sulfate phosphate
Technical aspects to consider for setting up a maximum limit for Cadmium (1/2)
Production of phosphate fertilisers
ASP
+ Ammoniac
+ Ammoniac+ Sulfuric acid
Setting up a maximum limit for Cadmium
80 mg/kg P2O5
the only limit that is:
Efficient Achievable Realistic