On Wednesday 31 March, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published a scientific report describing a method for setting targets for the protection of honey bees from the effects of pesticides according to background variability in colony size.
This report on the analysis of background variability in colony size is in response to a request from the European Commission.
As the risk managers, the Commission and Member States considered this option (Option 2) to be the best one in the...