Pesticides legislation vote due today
Euro MEPs are today debating and voting on the regulations governing pesticides: the regulation governing authorisation of plant protection products; and the framework directive ensuring the sustainable use of pesticides.
Read some articles from around the web:
- New EU pesticides legislation looks set for adoption (Euractiv)
- MEPs to debate ban on toxic chemicals and cuts in pesticides (European Parliament press release)
- Pesticide claims ‘nonsense’ say the Soil Association (Soil Association)
- Farmers fear EU pesticide rules (BBC)
- Farmers’ pesticide ban fears (BBC)
We will be providing more links once the vote has taken place.
Both my husband and I have lived in Spain for 5 years up to 2006 and have both developed Non Hodgkins Lymphoma. My husband has Mantel Cell Lymphoma. The medical specialist think that we must have been exposed to something to both contract this decease. We were living in the orange farming area where pesticides were used all around us as well as being sprayed from planes. This development is of great interest to us both.