Brussels, 01/02/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 31 January, French Agriculture Minister Stéphane Le Foll welcomed the proposals made by the European Commission to ban insecticides harmful to bees (see EUROPE 10776). “I welcome this decision by the Commission, which follows the logic of the withdrawal of the market authorisation of Cruiser OSR, on which I took the decision in June 2012”, he said.
On the same day, the Commission presented the proposal it hopes to put to the vote by...