Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) and Integrated Plant Protection (IPP) - two instruments with the same tenor?

摘要

Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) focuses on practical instructions for plant protection. GAP lays down orientation standards and forms the links between legal rales and authorized plant protection products. Integrated Plant Protection (IPP) goes further than GAP; it is both a model and a complex concept that seeks to balance economic and ecological demands. The reasons behind the development of GAP were the environmental damage caused by chemical plant protection products and the public discussions of their consequences. In Germany the official plant protection service and the crop-specific associations have together designed the rules for GAP. The Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection published basic principles for carryingout GAP in plant protection on 9 February 2005 (Anon, 2005). In addition the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organisation (EPPO) has published general and crop-specific principles referring to cultivation (EPPO, 2003); e.g. Good Practice in Potato Production (EPPO, 2001).