At their plenary session on Wednesday 18 September, MEPs rejected two European Commission decisions to authorise residue levels of several pesticides in imported food (see EUROPE B13481A8).
Their opposition was based on the need to protect EU citizens from pesticide residues in imported products and to ensure a level playing field for EU farmers, for whom the use of pesticides is already banned.
The NGO network PAN Europe, which in a press release thanked MEPs “for standing firm”,...