The new criteria for identifying pesticides that operate as endocrine disruptors are expected to come into force on Saturday 10 November, with no exemption for "negligible risk" as initially proposed by the Commission (see EUROPE 12066). The Member States' experts, meeting within the PAFF Committee, did not vote on this provision at their meeting on 23 and 24 October.
The European Commission had completed its task under Regulation 1107/2009 in 2016, with considerable delay, by presenting...