This Friday, 27 April, member state experts will at last make a decision on the European Commission proposal seeking a virtually total ban on three bee-killer neonicotinoid pesticides (clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam) which hitherto have been under a partial ban.
The European Commission has included a vote on the three pesticides in the agenda of the meeting of the standing committee on plants, animals, food and feed (the PAFF committee) after postponing the said vote in December...