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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10837

30 April 2013
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) biodiversity
Commission to ban bee-killing insecticides

Brussels, 29/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - The EU has saved face and bees will have their lives saved by a decision to be taken in the near future by the European Commission to suspend for two years the use in the European Union of three of the most deadly bee-killing pesticides, imidaclopride, thiametoxame and chlothianidine. EU experts on an appeals committee did not reach a qualified majority in Brussels on Monday 29 April to approve the Commission's plan for a ban (see EUROPE 10836), but a...

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