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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11700

11 January 2017
SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment
ECI seeking to ban glyphosate soon to be registered
Brussels, 10/01/2017 (Agence Europe)

The “Ban glyphosate” European Citizens Initiative (ECI) calling on the European Commission “to propose to Member States a ban on glyphosate, to reform the pesticide approval procedure, and to set EU-wide mandatory reduction targets for pesticide use” will be registered by the Commission on 25 January.

That was the decision taken by the College of Commissioners on Tuesday 10 January. The decision to register the ECI concerns only the legal admissibility of the proposal and does not...

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SECTORAL POLICIES
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
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EXTERNAL ACTION
ECONOMY - FINANCE
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
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