Pesticides: ENVI to tighten rules

The Environment Committee (ENVI) in the European Parliament wants to drastically restrict the use of pesticides. From 2030, pesticides are to be banned in principle on all sensitive land. This would affect just under one-fifth of the EU’s land area.

The European Parliament’s Committee on Environment (ENVI) is pushing for stricter rules in the Sustainable use of pesticides (SUR) regulation. By 47 votes to 37, with two abstentions, the Committee wants to push a 65 percent reduction in the use of particularly hazardous pesticides by 2030 – based on the period 2013 to 2017. The use of other pesticides is to be restricted by 50 percent. The Commission had advocated a 50 percent reduction in each case – based on the period 2015 to 2017.

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