Finally, the new EU directive 2009/128 is going to promote widely the use of biological control agents as active ingredients of biopesticide or biofertilizer formulations, either as living microbes, extracts or bioactive molecules.It will be possible to place the really useful products supported by a solid scientific base on a fast track to gain a much larger market share.In fact, the required move from chemical to IPM-based disease management will correspond to the loss of an estimated 50％ of the synthetic active principles available today, and has to be to be fully implemented within the next 24 months.