Abstract This paper explores Spanish pesticide policy with a focus on developments during the last decade. Spain is one of the greatest global consumers of conventional pesticides and leader in various related rankings among European Union countries. However, reviews of pesticide policies examining the key plans, facts, strategies and stakeholders are largely lacking. In providing an overview of Spanish responses to the European Directive 2009/128/EC on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides, this article contributes to filling this research gap. Spanish National Action Plans lack measurable quantitative objectives for reduction in the use of conventional pesticides and further implementation of Integrated Pest Management. Spanish National Action Plans also lack strategies for informing citizens about pesticide residues, and efficient means of keeping up to date with the authorisation of new active substances and delivery of pesticide use and sales data, in time and form. Moreover, there are no clear trends in conventional pesticide use reduction and sales, despite a significant reduction in the use of the more toxic active substances. Overall, this paper reveals various important shortcomings and incongruences in Spanish pesticide policy, which deserve further scholarly exploration and should be a matter of concern for public bodies.

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大销售，没有胡萝卜：西班牙农药政策评估。

摘要 本文探讨了西班牙农药政策，重点是过去十年的发展。西班牙是全球最大的传统农药消费国之一，在欧盟国家的各种相关排名中处于领先地位。然而，在很大程度上缺乏对关键计划、事实、战略和利益相关者的农药政策审查。本文概述了西班牙对关于农药可持续使用的欧洲指令 2009/128/EC 的回应，有助于填补这一研究空白。西班牙国家行动计划缺乏减少常规农药使用和进一步实施综合虫害管理的可衡量的定量目标。西班牙国家行动计划也缺乏将农药残留告知公民的策略，及时更新新活性物质授权和农药使用和销售数据的有效手段。此外，尽管毒性较大的活性物质的使用量显着减少，但传统农药的使用量和销售量并没有明显的减少趋势。总体而言，本文揭示了西班牙农药政策的各种重要缺陷和不一致之处，值得进一步的学术探索，并应成为公共机构关注的问题。