MEPs on the European Parliament’s environment committee, which is chaired by Adina-Ioana Valean (EPP, Romania), want to know how the Commission intends to break the deadlock on certification of low-risk organic pesticides – a matter they feel to be important as certification would allow these products gradually to replace substances which are potentially harmful to the environment and human health.
In Brussels on Tuesday 31 January, the committee voted by 59 to 1, with 6 abstentions, to...