On Thursday 30 June members of the European Parliament’s Environment Committee called on the European Commission to provide guarantees on food security or mechanisms to verify compliance with the target of reducing pesticide use by 50%.
Commissioner for Health Stella Kyriakides defended the proposed regulation on the sustainable use of pesticides before the committee (see EUROPE B12977A16).
Several MEPs in the EPP, Renew Europe and ECR groups expressed concern about the impact of the text...