The NGO HEAL (Health & Environment Alliance) announced on Wednesday 10 June that it has applied to the European Court of Justice for the right to intervene in legal proceedings concerning the action brought in February by two agrochemical companies against the European Commission’s decision to ban chlorpyrifos-methyl (Case T-77/20, Ascenza Agro and Industrias Afrasa).
This decision not to renew the authorisation leading to the ban was adopted last January because of concerns about the...