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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11814

23 June 2017
SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment
Parliament's ENVI committee stands firm on neonicotinoids
Brussels, 22/06/2017 (Agence Europe)

The European Parliament environment committee showed unfaltering firmness in Brussels on Thursday 23 June on three neonicotinoid bee-killing pesticides that have seen restrictions placed on their use in the EU and that could shortly be banned totally.

The three objections tabled by UK MEP Julie Girling (ECR) calling on Parliament to take a position opposing the extension and the toughening of the scope of the ban on these neonicotinoids were resoundingly defeated. The three neonicotinoids...

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