The NGO PAN Europe (Pesticide Action Network), which campaigns for the sustainable use of pesticides, published, on Tuesday 27 September, a new report criticising the EU’s failure to meet regulatory requirements for substitution of the most toxic pesticides (see EUROPE B12985A10).
The report, entitled ‘Pesticide Paradise: How industry and officials protect the most toxic pesticides’, blames this regulatory failure on two causes:
- on the one hand, the European Commission and the...