Experts from European Union member states, meeting in Brussels on 23 and 24 October, postponed their vote on renewing the authorisation to use copper in agriculture, which is a highly sensitive issue for organic winemaking (see EUROPE 12062).
The European Commission has suggested there should be a limit of 28 kilos per hectare over seven years, with the smoothing mechanism (possibility of exceeding the threshold of 4kg/ha/pa if, in years with weather conditions leading to less mildew, the...