The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has reviewed its guidance document on how to assess risks to honey bees, bumble bees and solitary bees from...
The European Commission adopted new rules which will, once applicable, lower the Maximum Residues Levels (MRLs) of two pesticides in food.
Today, the Commission adopted proposals to restore damaged ecosystems and bring nature back across Europe, from agricultural land and seas, to forests...
Between 2011 and 2020, sales of pesticides in the EU remained relatively stable with the total volume sold annually fluctuating ± 6% around the 350 00...
Today agriculture ministers agreed on the need to set a specific goal to protect honey bees from pesticides.
EFSA has completed a comprehensive analysis of the available scientific evidence on bee mortality, as part of its ongoing review of the guidance for a...
The European Commission yesterday published a roadmap for the evaluation of the EU legislation on the sustainable use of pesticides and an inception i...
Commission registers 3 new initiatives, and finds 1 inadmissible.
Today, Corteva Agriscience™, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, announced Adavelt™ active as the new brand name for a novel fungicide that will offer...
EFSA has examined the scientific basis for emergency authorisations of neonicotinoid pesticides which were granted in seven EU Member States in 2017.
EFSA has completed its review of the maximum levels of glyphosate that are legally permitted to be present in food. The review is based on data on gly...
Most uses of neonicotinoid pesticides represent a risk to wild bees and honeybees, according to assessments published today by EFSA. The Authority has...
With the Communication adopted today, the Commission replies to the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) "Ban glyphosate and protect people and the env...
The Council meeting, chaired by Mr Tarmo Tamm, minister of Rural Affairs of the Republic of Estonia, will take place in Brussels and address mainly ag...
It is one of the most debated questions in chemical risk assessment: can exposure to chemicals such as pesticides cause ill health in humans? Scientis...
The European Commission has decided today to register a European Citizens Initiative (ECI) inviting the Commission "to propose to Member States a ban...
Ninety-seven per cent of food samples collected in the European Union are free of pesticide residues or contain traces that are within legal limits. T...
Despite repeated efforts from the Commission to address concerns expressed about the re-approval of glyphosate, Member States were not prepared to tak...
Today the Commission called for the EU Plants Animals Food and Feed Committee to meet on June 6 to discuss a limited extension of the current authoris...
