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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11477
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) environment

EFSA highlights assessing cumulated pesticide health risks breakthrough

Brussels, 27/01/2016 (Agence Europe) - The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) has been harshly criticised for not having taken into account the combined effects of several pesticides in the risk assessment of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). On Wednesday 27 January, however, it announced that progress had been made in tackling this shortfall, thanks to a software tool.

The highlighted shortcoming has been consistently criticised by the Testbiotech and GeneWatch UK NGOs and it was...

Contents

SECTORAL POLICIES
(AE) INTERNAL MARKET: Independence of vehicle approval authorities - remuneration system to be agreed in 2016
(AE) JHA: Commission confirms Greek Schengen failings and could trigger Article 26
(AE) JHA: Bulgarian and Romanian judicial systems and fight against corruption still to be closely monitored
(AE) JHA: Migrants - Visegrad countries call counter-summit
(AE) COMPETITIVENESS: Digitisation of economy to dominate informal Council
(AE) ENERGY: Commission wants to tackle energy poverty
(AE) ENVIRONMENT: EFSA highlights assessing cumulated pesticide health risks breakthrough
ECONOMY - FINANCE
(AE) FINANCE: Brian Hayes wants final agreement on pension fund directive by June
(AE) STATE AID: Agreement on unusal Italian bank deleveraging scheme
(AE) COMPETITION: Car industry cartel fined €137 million
(AE) ECONOMY: Eleven countries' public debt at medium-term risk level
(AE) CYPRUS: IMF agrees to release aid instalment for Cyprus
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - SPORT
(AE) SOCIAL: Commission outlines its European social rights pillar
(AE) SOCIAL: Parliament sceptical about European unemployment insurance scheme
(AE) SPORT: MEPs say FIFA election not looking good
EXTERNAL ACTION
(AE) UKRAINE: OSCE says time is short for organising elections by June
(AE) LIBYA: EU could take out sanctions against three Libyan leaders
(AE) USA: AmCham-supported study highlights benefits of TTIP for every EU member state
(AE) DEVELOPMENT: MEPs ask Commission for more attention and transparency on cooperation funding
(AE) ACP/EU: Assessment of post-Cotonou consultation results to begin
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
(AE) HUMAN RIGHTS: Thorbjorn Jagland says European Human Rights Convention is in danger
NEWS BRIEFS
(AE) COUNCIL OF EUROPE:
(AE) GMO:
(AE) HOLOCAUST:
(AE) MIDDLE EAST:
(AE) UNITED KINGDOM: