The paper is dealing with limitations of disadvantageous side-effects of plant protection product use and continuous restriction on the conditions of their use. This concept is more or less obvious to most people who have no direct contact with agricultural production. The paper proposal is to describe the systems of adjustable buffer zones of surface waters, as in many EU countries is already the common practice instead of the use of fixed buffer zones (surface waters, application of PPP in areas near urban settlements) in Slovenia regulated by the Plant Protection Products Act and the Waters Act, and their sub-law regulations. In the areas, where the adjustable buffer zones are already established, there are more positive than negative experiences present, such as on the segment of monitoring of environmental parameters and also on the area of monitoring of the economic performance of agricultural producers. The adopted system would eliminate currently present difficulties, which often discourage producers from further agriculture production, or even completely make the agricultural production impossible.
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