Addendum to the Agreement on Pesticide Strategy for 2017-2021.

With this supplemental text to the 2017-2021 Pesticide Strategy (the Strategy), the Government (The Liberal Party, Liberal Alliance, and the Conservative Party), the Danish People’s Party, the Danish Social Democrats, the Social Liberal Party and the Socialist People’s Party agree on: 1. Reducing the risk of pesticides leaching into groundwater in protected areas in the vicinity of drilled wells; 2. Adhering to the recommendations of the Danish Water Panel regarding screening for several substances within the groundwater monitoring program; 3. Strengthening the effort to counteract pesticide resistance; 4. Prohibiting the sale of concentrated pesticides for non-commercial use.
The Parties to the Strategy further agree on retaining the existing goals for reducing the pesticide load and on retaining the pesticide tax until the end of 2020. The Parties agree that the risk of groundwater contamination due to commercial use of pesticides in protected areas in the vicinity of drilled wells must be reduced and that the affected farmers should receive damages or compensation for the loss suffered through the water tariff system.