(AOF) – After months of negotiations, the European Parliament has not found a position today on the regulation relating to the sustainable use of plant protection products”, announced the environmental group of the Parliament of Strasbourg. “The request for referral of the proposal to the Environment Committee was also rejected”, he specifies, so that “the trilogue negotiations cannot begin and there will be no regulation on pesticides” .
“It’s a dark day for the environment, our health, but also for the future of agriculture,” Sarah Wiener, Green MEP and rapporteur of the regulation. “Driven by powerful lobbies from the agricultural and pesticide sectors, conservative and right-wing MEPs in the European Parliament have succeeded in weakening the pesticide regulation on almost every point.”
“With today’s vote, the European Parliament has taken a clear position: we must find solutions together with and not against agriculture,” reacts Norbert Lins (CDU), chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Sustainable Development. rural development . He accuses Sarah Wiener of having “attempted to use her report from the Environment Committee to ban plant protection products in sensitive agricultural areas”, which was “unacceptable for (him) and for the majority of the European Parliament” .