In addition to international differences in the requirements for the approval of pesticides, the complexity and cost of pesticide approvals are rising continually, which either cur- rently prevents many companies from putting products on the market that could be more efficient and cheaper than the existing ones or results in acceptable products of minor use from being withdrawn from the market. This makes it likely that future choices of the best available pesticide on the market for a particular application will be severely redu- ced by the economics of the approvals process. It also means that competition in the mar- ket for pesticides will be skewed towards.
