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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11449

10 December 2015
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) environment
Petition against glyphosate submitted to Commission

Brussels, 09/12/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 9 December, 16 organisations mainly involved in environmental protection, submitted a petition to the European Commission signed by 135,733 European citizens calling for a ban on glyphosate, in spite of the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) recently concluding that this controversial pesticide was “probably not carcinogenic” (see EUROPE 11443 and 11409).

This petition was handed into Michael Flueh, the director of the Pesticides Unit...

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SECTORAL POLICIES
ECONOMY - FINANCE
EXTERNAL ACTION
CULTURE
INSTITUTIONAL
NEWS BRIEFS