Twenty-two Substances Under Scrutiny

摘要

The EU's professional agricultural organisations still regret the lack of evaluation of the impact on their sector of the future European legislation on placing plant protection products on the market and the sustainable use of pesticides. But they were not able to mobilise a sufficient number of MEPs to block the definitive adoption, on 14 January, of the new regulation during the European Parliament's plenary session. A majority of MEPs were in favour of the compromise (see page 4). The main political groups - the centre right (EPP-ED), the centre (ALDE), and the centre left (PES) - meeting in Brussels during the week of 5 January, indicated their intention to vote in favour of the text, with the exception of British, Irish and Polish MEPs (53 in favour and 25 against within the largest group, the EPP).