To improve farmers’ access to alternatives to chemical pesticides, the EU is adopting new rules to increase the availability of organic pesticides that are more environmentally friendly and pose less of a risk to public health.
Member States have approved a proposal for a regulation to amend existing legislation to speed up the market authorisation of these organic pesticides, the institution announced on Thursday 10 February (see EUROPE B12823A14).
This new regulation amends Regulation...