Close to practice definition
Close to practice means here the initial cultivation phase after first consent for placing on the mar- ket is given. It is in many cases a priori (epistemically) not possible to experimentally study long- term effects related to large-scale cultivation.
Close to practice means the initial cultivation phase after first consent for placing on the market is given. However, in reasoned cases it might also be possible to study long-term effects in more depth in a pre-market phase with ‘close to practice’ conditions (e.g. large scale field releases). The ‘need’ to study potential impacts in relation to cultivation, the coverage of different European re- gions and experiments conducted on farm scale level, were controversially discussed among CSW experts with respect to timing either within pre- or post marketing (e.g. see Annex 3, pages A3-8, A3-9, and A3-17).