The Belgian competent authority reminded on 10.12.2019 that non-professional use of selective herbicides is no longer permitted after 31.12.2019.
German competent authority BVL published a press release, rejecting allegations from “Der Spiegel” (“the Mirror”) of arbitrary and questionable decisions on glyphosate...
On 09.12.2019 ANSES announced the withdrawal of the authorisations of 36 glyphosate-based products, and the refusal to authorise another 4 products.
The Administrative Court of Nice ruled in favour of an action from Générations Futures against the authorisation of two sulfoxaflor products.
The German competent authority announced on 06.12.2019 that (most) authorisations of glyphosate products will be extended until 15.12.2020.
The German BVL announced on 04.12.2019 the final revocation of desmedipham authorisations.
UK HSE (CRD) published the finalised “Guidance on how aged sorption studies for pesticides should be conducted, analysed and used in regulatory assessments“.
On 07.11.2019 Koppert’s new biopesticide Metschnikowia fructicola was authorised in France.
On 03.12.2019 the Belgian competent authority announced the granting of emergency authorisations for the use of thiamethoxam, beta-cyfluthrin and clothianidin as seed treatment for sugar beet seeds.
On 02.12.2019 the German BVL published updated presentation series on pesticides and environment
On 28.11.2019, the German BVL published information on suppliers of PPE for pesticides.
France announced the withdrawal of 9 products containing active substances for which no application for renewal was received.
Belgium published instructions on the Art.43 renewals for alpha-cypermethrin authorisations.
On 08.11.2019 the German BVL released the annual report on pesticide sales.
On 29.10.2019 Dutch Ctgb published an update of the Pesticides Atlas with data from 2018 (in Dutch).
On 23.10.2019 the European Commission published the report on the sustainable use of pesticides in Cyprus.
On 11.10.2019 Dutch Ctgb published an article saying that it is reassessing PPPs based on glyphosate to check whether authorised products are still safe for humans, animals and the environment.
On 11.09.2019 the French ministry launched a public consultation on the draft decree listing flupyradifurone and sulfoxaflor as having identical modes of action to those of neonicotinoids.
On 09.10.2019 PAN Europe had an article published in “the Ecologist”, criticising the post-Brexit pesticides legislation in the UK.
Brexit or not, HSE is organising a series of workshops before and after 31.10.2019, namely on Dermal Exposure, Consumer Risk Assessment, Technical Fate and Behaviour Assessment of plant protection...