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