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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11885

18 October 2017
Contents Publication in full By article 13 / 34
SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment
Andrieu says Commission is irresponsible for sticking with 10-year glyphosate re-authorisation
Brussels, 17/10/2017 (Agence Europe)

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...

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