In Strasbourg, on Thursday 15 December, the European Parliament called for planned measures to be toughened to prevent new plant pests which attack citrus trees and fruit from entering the EU.
In adopting a resolution tabled by the Parliament’s own agriculture committee (by 463 votes to 168, with 3 abstentions), MEPs called on the Commission to amend its implementing act (directive) on protective measures against the introduction of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against...