SECTORAL POLICIES / Biodiversity

Pesticides and bees, Commission and EFSA accused of playing into industry’s hands in Parliament Environment Committee

Brussels, 01/10/2020 (Agence Europe)

The options proposed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for the revision of its 2013 guidance document on pesticide risk assessment for bees – and in particular option 2, which has the support of a majority of Member States – are unacceptable, warned MEPs on the European Parliament's Environment Committee on Thursday 1 October.

Representatives of the European Commission and EFSA were accused of playing into the hands of the pesticide industry and torpedoing current bee...