A number of MEPs on the European Parliament’s agriculture committee, including Elisabeth Köstinger (EPP, Austria) and Clara Eugenia Aguilera Garcia (S&D, Spain), once again protested, on Tuesday 2 May, against the European Commission’s controversial plans to ban the use of plant protection products on productive ecological focus areas (see EUROPE 11749).
The agriculture committee voted in March to extend the review period on the delegated act simplifying certain greening measures by two...