EU pesticide reduction target is the right one – less poison in fields is good for people, animals and the environment
Vienna (OTS/SK) – The ECJ today condemned the excessive practice of repeated emergency authorizations for pesticide-treated seeds. SPÖ-UE MP Günther Sidl welcomes the saying: “Even in Austria there has been emergency approval of seeds that have been treated with particularly dangerous pesticides, so-called neonicotinoids, although the general approval expired in 2019. These chemicals put biodiversity, in this case the bee population, at risk. Following the legal clarification of the Court of Justice, the practice, which until now has been conducted very negligently, of bringing substances that are already dangerously banned back onto the market every years through emergency approval, must now finally come to an end!” ****
Furthermore, Sidl, member of the EU Parliament’s environment committee, urges EU member states to comply with the implementation of the EU reduction target: “50% less pesticides by 2030, that’s the right way to go. the harm we bring to nature also ends up on our plates and ultimately our bodies.At the same time, pesticides are poisonous for biodiversity and switching to existing ecological alternatives would make an important contribution to the EU’s goals in area of climate and biodiversity protection.”
“We have to take our farmers’ concerns seriously, but the task of politicians is to support them in the shift to sustainable agriculture rather than further impeding it. To this end, all steps must finally be taken to promote the search for real alternatives to the dangerous environmental toxins for agriculture. The health of people, animals and the environment is directly related, and this belief must become the basis of our agricultural policy”, concluded Sidl. (close) lp
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