Agro-food Cooperatives of Spain and FEPEX warn of the widespread impact on agricultural production due to the lack of effective tools and call for greater sensitivity and realism from the competent authorities. The representative organizations of the Spanish agricultural sector —Agro-food Cooperatives of Spain and FEPEX— have highlighted the growing deficiencies of the current community system for authorizing plant protection products and active substances, essential for crop protection. This situation is drastically reducing productivity and generating a clear competitive disadvantage for EU farmers, and especially for Spanish farmers due to their geographic location, by limiting their ability to deal with pests and diseases. The agricultural sector warns that, in an increasingly complex context marked by climate change, increased pest pressure, and the emergence of resistances, the progressive reduction of available tools for their control, along with the absence of ...