European Commission (AK) stated this Thursday that the contract will be renewed for a period of ten years. permission to use Glyphosate herbicide, which will expire on December 15, after member states of the community club agreement could not be reached For or against at today’s meeting.
Member States meeting at the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (Scopaff) on 13 October voted on the Commission’s proposal to renew the use of glyphosate for ten years, but The majority required to approve or reject the initiative was not reached.
Therefore, this Thursday, the proposal was voted once again in the Appeal Committee attended by European Union countries. “Qualified majority could not be reached “It is necessary to renew or reject the approval of glyphosate,” the EC said in its statement.
It is the European Commission that will make the final decision in this context, and today it announced that it will renew the authorization to use glyphosate for ten years.
“In accordance with EU law and in the absence of the necessary majority in both directions (for or against), the Commission must now take a decision by 15 December 2023, when the current approval period for glyphosate expires.” Community Manager.
“Based on comprehensive security assessments carried out by the Commission, the Commission European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), together with EU Member States, will now continue to renew the approval of glyphosate for a period of ten years, subject to certain new conditions and restrictions,” Brussels added.
These restrictions include a ban on the use of glyphosate as a desiccant before harvest and the requirement to take certain precautions to prevent non-target organisms from using the chemical.
Although the Commission announced that it would renew the license of glyphosate in the European Union for ten years, it reminded that Member States are responsible for the national licenses of plant protection products containing glyphosate.
Nationwide restrictions
Therefore, every EU country will continue to have it. Option to restrict use at national level The EC reminded that if it deems it necessary, it can be regional and regional “depending on the outcome of risk assessments, especially taking into account the need for the protection of biological diversity.”
Products containing glyphosate are mostly used in agriculture and horticulture against bushes that damage crops.
Although the World Health Organization (WHO) warned about this issue in 2015, Carcinogenic risks of glyphosateThe European Food Safety Agency and the European Chemicals Agency later claimed to have scientific evidence to classify the herbicide as non-carcinogenic.
So, after two years of debate, Monsanto’s herbicide glyphosate received approval for continued use in the EU in 2017, albeit for a shorter period than usual, five years instead of the usual 15, and the license was renewed once again the year after that. EFSA’s report is expected by 15 December.
This European agency concluded last July: level of risk does not justify banIt was accepted that some issues could not be evaluated in the report, provided that the use of pesticides was accompanied by measures to reduce human, animal and environmental health.
With this report in hand, the Community Administration proposed last September to renew the glyphosate license in the EU for another ten years “with strict conditions”.