MEPs in Strasbourg on Thursday 8 February will take a stance on the composition of the European Parliament’s special committee, the creation of which was decided on Tuesday, to shed light on the pesticide authorisation procedure in the EU in the wake of controversial renewal of the glyphosate licence in the EU (see EUROPE 11955).
On Wednesday evening, the day before the vote, the last wrangling had taken place within the various political groups in order to put the final touches to the...