SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) environment

Glyphosate, planned extension of authorisation for less than 2 years to be submitted to member states on 6 June

Brussels, 31/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 6 June, the European Commission will propose to member states' experts an extension of the authorisation for glyphosate until mid-2017 or the end of 2017 in order to give the European Chemical Products Agency (ECHA) time to establish whether this highly controversial pesticide (and the one most widely used in Europe) is an endocrine disruptor.

“It is not a new authorisation, but an extension of the old authorisation”, a European source...