SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment

Authorisation of pesticides, draft special PEST committee report welcomed by big political groups

Brussels, 27/09/2018 (Agence Europe)

Although rather warmly welcomed by the big political groups at the European Parliament, the first draft of the recommendations of the European Parliament’s special PEST committee will be extensively amended. 

This is the conclusion drawn by Éric Andrieu (S&D, France), chair of the special committee, after the first debate, constructive but lively, which took place in Brussels on Thursday 27 September on the draft report by the committee for evaluating the authorisation procedure for...