The reform of agricultural statistical data on pesticide use, proposed by the European Commission last year and supported by the European Parliament, risks being torpedoed by the Council of the EU, warned the NGOs PAN Europe (Pesticide Action Network Europe), GLOBAL 2000 and ClientEarth, on Wednesday 2 February, on the eve of the opening of inter-institutional negotiations on this dossier.
The NGOs base this on their analysis of the documents from the in camera negotiations in the EU...