The community legislator’s hope is obviously to further motivate the industry to support minor uses and orphan crops through the evaluation process of new active substances in order to gain more protection on their overall investments. Within the perspective of a sustainable and equitable agriculture, AUDACE is focusing its interest on areas of practice or regulation relevant to agriculture when these seem to compromise the legitimate objectives. This includes FAO specifications which, in the past, had been regarded as benefiting farming by opening markets to more controlled productions of generic plant protection products. He explained how standards recommended by standard-setting bodies become mandatory once they are incorporated into national laws. He explained the standard-setting process followed by the FAO/WHO JMPS and pointed out some of the potential inconsistencies with how standards should be defined and the characteristics they should possess. For example, the proposed pesticide standards contain confidential information that is claimed as intellectual property.