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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10909

29 August 2013
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) biodiversity
Syngenta and Bayer oppose Commission on moratorium

Brussels, 28/08/2013 (Agence Europe) - Two agro-chemical pesticide groups - the Swiss Syngenta and Germany's Bayer - are taking legal action against the decision of the European Commission to impose a partial ban, starting on 1 December of this year, on the use of three of the neonicotinoid insecticides most dangerous to bees (Regulation 485/2013) - to the great consternation of environmental NGOs, which expressed their outrage on 27 & 28 August.

Syngenta's initiative, which was launched on...