Agrochemicals

Why choose our Agrochemicals lawyers?

Our specialists provide legal assistance in all market segments of the agrochemical sector ranging from traditional plant  protection products and fertilisers to new cutting-edge technologies such as biopesticides, biofertilisers or biostimulants. 

We have a team of highly skilled regulatory lawyers covering a big range of national jurisdictions with a solid understanding of the technical and scientific aspects of the sector. This enables us to provide tailored and creative legal solutions to highly technical issues. We work side by side with clients and technical advisors to provide legal solutions that enable our clients to overcome obstacles in the marketing of their product and achieve their business goals.

• Advising international companies on the European renewal programme (so-called AIR regulations) and re-registration activity at Member State level (art. 43, art 34 and mutual recognition applications).
• Providing legal assistance on notification of active substances, dossier submission, zonal applications, mutual recognition, Task Forces, data protection issues, data matching dossiers, national delays, emergency use authorisations, etc.
• Challenging regulatory restrictions, negotiating data sharing agreements, including arbitration. Our lawyers have negotiated many data sharing agreements and won arbitration and litigation cases in various EU countries relating to data access.

We are also very active before EU and national Courts and won the first ever application for interim relief to the EU General Court. The Order extended the suspension of the Commission decision not to include napropamide in Annex I to the PPPD until the conclusion of the assessment of new data on napropamide under the so-called “re-submission” process.

We also advise on the creation of Task Forces, related data protection issues, and compliance with European competition laws, addressing these issues at both EU-wide and Member State level. We have unparalleled experience in forming, managing and advising Task Forces, since the inception of the review programme under Directive 91/414/EEC and under Regulation 1107/2009.

Finally, the team is also part of the so-called ‘Helix Team’ which provides the specialist expertise required in a ‘one-stop-shop’. The Helix Team proposes a fully integrated approach encapsulating all areas of required expertise for a successful approval or renewal dossier process of an active substance: advocacy activities and legal support, scientific analysis, socio-economic analysis (SEA) if necessary.