Approved by Director M. Jortay 8/12/2015
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Comments Louise Corselli-Nordblad 9/12/2015:
- "Looking at individual EU Member States, the pattern of the pesticides group followed the distribution of the total amount of sold pesticides with the four major sellers (Spain, France, Italy and Germany) also top ranking by groups (see Figure 3). " => I do not understand this sentence, could it be clarified?
- The next paragraph should start with something like: "Among the four Member states selling the highest quantity of pesticides, the largest..."
- Next paragraph: instead of saying "There were exceptions to the pattern of the top four countries as well", I would say "Other Member States also had high sales of pesticides: In Poland..."
- Why say that the UK is among the top 4 when it came third?
- "Malta was the country that presented the highest quantity of pesticides per hectare, mainly due to the influence of the Mediterranean climate"=> I do not understand the link: there are other MS with a Mediterranean climate which do not have high pesticide sales...
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Tim Allen 9th December 2015. EN edits.