Glyphosate approval: What the ecologists • Table.Briefings

A number of ecologists have criticized the EU Commission’s proposal for a renewed authorization of the controversial herbicide. They say that the protection of biodiversity is being given far too short a shrift in many EU member states. In Germany, however, the restrictions attached to a renewed glyphosate approval are already being implemented.

Glyphosate remains a bone of contention for the time being. The EU Commission is shifting responsibility to the EU member states and squandering the opportunity to introduce harmonized rules for the protection of biodiversity. „The proposal contains several legally non-binding restrictions for member states“, criticizes Viennese researcher Johann Zaller of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Austria. „Many responsibilities are simply transferred to the member states with the proposal. Given the deplorable state of biodiversity in the member states and the importance they attach to nature conservation, this does not bode well“, Zaller criticizes.

Glyphosate approval: What the ecologists say

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