Only a few days before member states are scheduled to vote, on 25 October, on the proposal to renew the glyphosate licence for ten more years, French MEP Éric Andrieu (S&D) called on the Commission on Tuesday 17 October to reconsider.
Accusing the Commission of being “irresponsible” in refusing to deviate from its proposal to authorise a pesticide recognised as a probable carcinogen by the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer for such a long period, Andrieu predicts...