At the end of October, experts from EU member states rejected the European Commission’s proposal to implement the EFSA guidance document on assessing the toxicity of a pesticide on bees, deplored the NGO Pesticide Action Network - Europe (PAN Europe), on Tuesday 6 November.
Refusal is a missed opportunity for protecting bees and other pollinators “in particular from the harm presented by (...) bee toxic pesticides that are being introduced to replace the recently banned...