On Monday 21 October in Strasbourg, MEPs of the European Parliament's Environment Committee showed that they expect the EU to pay utmost attention to the protection of bees. They do not accept that the European Commission has bowed down before Member State experts to curtail the 2013 EFSA guidance document on pesticide risk assessment on bees.
They therefore vetoed the draft regulation aimed at amending the uniform principles for decision-making on acute risks of pesticides to bees,...