The European Parliament, voting in Strasbourg on Wednesday 14 June, ultimately supported the ban on the use of pesticides in ecological focus areas (EFAs). The decision was not to object to the delegated act containing measures to simplify the arrangements on the greening of aid (see EUROPE 11798 and 11804).
Parliament, then, did not take the same view as its agriculture committee which, in adopting the report by Czesław Adam Siekierski (EPP, Poland), recommended that objection be raised to...