European Member States have failed to agree on legislation that would allow an extension of the glyphosate license. Today’s Standing...
June 6, 2016
Glyphosate is an active substance used for the production of pesticides, which has been authorised in the EU since 2002...
June 5, 2016
EU Member States have been asked to vote again on glyphosate’s re-authorisation on Monday, June 6, in Brussels, following last...
June 1, 2016
With one month to go until the June 30 deadline for a decision on re-authorising glyphosate, discussions are still on-going...
May 30, 2016
It’s moving into the end game for the renewal of one of the most commonly used chemicals on Irish farms Roundup....
May 24, 2016
A vote was not held today in Brussels on the re-authorisation of glyphosate as the European Commission said that it...
May 19, 2016
Glyphosate will be banned in France – whether or not the EU decides this week to renew the authorisation of...
May 18, 2016
Glyphosate, the chemical used in Monsanto’s Roundup, is unlikely to pose carcinogenic risk to humans from exposure through the diet, a...
May 17, 2016
Germany looks set to abstain in an EU vote next week on the continued use of glyphosate in weed killers,...
May 15, 2016
Reports in Brussels suggest the European Commission will propose that the commonly used herbicide glyphosate be re-approved for nine years. It...
May 11, 2016
The European Parliament has voted to renew glyphosate for a further seven years, following a meeting of MEPs in Luxembourg...
April 13, 2016
Two-thirds of Europeans want glyphosate banned according to a poll by the international market research firm YouGov. According to the...
April 12, 2016
The Ulster Farmers’s Union (UFU) has called on the European Commission to re-register glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide...
April 10, 2016
Environment Committee MEPs have said that the European Commission should not renew glyphosate’s authorisation. They have said that it should...
March 26, 2016
All 28 Member States of the European Union need a common understandable position on glyphosate, the European Commissioner for Health and...
March 19, 2016
The European Commission looks set to re-licence Glyphosate the worlds most widely used and controversial weedkiller. According to reports in...
February 26, 2016
Since the mid-1990s there has been a dramatic increase in the volume of glyphosate herbicides that have been applied and...
February 13, 2016
The European Commission has adopted two Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) for food or feed uses, despite MEPs from the European...
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