Draft regulations seen by the Guardian newspaper reveal the European commission wants to prohibit the insecticides that cause ‘acute risks to bees’
The world’s most widely used insecticides would be banned from all fields across Europe under draft regulations from the European commission, seen by the Guardian.
POLITICO a Brussels based publication says:-
“From Suffolk in the U.K. to Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, Europe’s honeybees are facing a new threat: a legal loophole in an EU moratorium on pesticides.
Environmentalists had hoped that a 2013 temporary EU ban on pesticides suspected of impacting bee health would offer some respite to the Continent’s collapsing colonies. But 13 European governments have provided farmers and pesticide producers with permission to sidestep the regulations.”
http://www.politico.eu/article/europes-lost-colonies-bees-neonicotinoids/
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