Just after Christmas, we received a letter headed up: URGENT Action Needed: New developments mean the EU is effectively about to ban small seed producers – Please read all of this letter: You may remember earlier in the year we wrote to you telling you about the EU plans to license seed production. It …
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GM potato approval annulled by EU court – from ENDS 16/12/13
European court annuls GM potato approval A decision to allow cultivation of the GM potato variety Amflora has been annulled by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) over problems with the procedure followed by the European Commission. In January 2003, Germany chemicals company BASF made two applications to authorise Amflora via different routes, …
NGOs and beekeepers take legal action to defend EU ban of bee-killing pesticides against Syngenta and Bayer
Field study increases concerns over bee pesticide exposure Press release – December 16, 2013 Brussels – Greenpeace International, Bee Life European Beekeeping Coordination and 4 other environmental and consumer organisations (Pesticides Action Network Europe, ClientEarth, Buglife and SumOfUs) are applying to intervene at the European Court of Justice to defend an EU-wide partial ban of …
Stalled parliament debate on GM honey resumes
MEPs will vote on the stalled proposal to allow the sale of honey containing genetically modified (GM) pollen without labelling it as such in November. An impact assessment published earlier this month has come down on the side of the European Commission’s plan to change pollen’s status from ‘ingredient’ to ‘constituent’ of honey, to get around a EU …
Monsanto GMs and Roundup (Glyphosate) – from ENDS 22nd July 2013
Monsanto rethinks its business priorities in Europe Biotechnology company Monsanto has decided to withdraw all its applications for GM crop cultivation in Europe except for GM maize MON 810. The firm will focus on its lucrative conventional seed business instead. In a statement, Monsanto explained that “the EU today is effectively a conventional seed market …
New pesticide restriction: from ENDS 17/7/13
Member states agree new pesticide restriction Member states have voted by a large majority to restrict the use of fipronil, an insecticide which EU scientists say poses a risk to bees. From 31 December, it will be illegal to treat maize and sunflower seeds with the active substance made by German chemical giant BASF. As …
Laser Fruit Labeling Approved by EU
Sticky labels on supermarket fruits are set to be replaced by laser ‘tattoos’ printed onto their skin, under new rulings from the European Union. The EU approved the use of iron oxides and hydroxides in lasering citrus fruit, melons and pomegranates last week and the law comes into force from 23 June. Although the technology …
Neonicotinoids Harm Birds and Soil
Pesticides banned by the EU for harming the bee population could also be killing birds and mammals and organisms in the soil, a new study has found. Certain neonicotinoids were banned by the European Commission earlier this year, despite resistance by the UK Government, because of fears the chemicals kill bees. Now a study by …
UK Bee Insecticide Study Flawed, says EU Food Agency
Field study cited by British government as evidence that neonicotinoids cause little harm to bees has ‘several weaknesses’, says European Food Safety Authority The trump card waved by the UK government in its doomed opposition to the Europe-wide suspension of three bee-harming pesticides has been confirmed as nothing more than a joker. Full story: The Guardian (5 …
Bee Health: EU-wide restrictions on Pesticide use to enter into force on 1 December
European Commission – Press release from ‘Europa‘ Brussels, 24 May 2013 Bee Health: EU-wide restrictions on Pesticide use to enter into force on 1 December A restriction on the use of three pesticides belonging to the neonicotinoid family was today adopted by the Commission. These pesticides (clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiametoxam) were identified as being harmful to …