Vote sur le rapport PEST de la Commission : l'indépendance, la transparence, la limitation des risques et l'efficacité sont requises.

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A little less than a year after it was set up, the Pesticides Commission, which is studying pesticide authorization procedures in the European Union, voted on its report in plenary in Strasbourg on 16 January.

With 526 votes in favour, 66 against and 72 abstentions, the adoption of the recommendations of the Pesticides Commission was accepted by an overwhelming majority. BeeLife is pleased that all "pro-pesticide" amendments have been rejected.

BeeLife was auditioned by this commission. During the hearing, scientific advisor Noa Simon-Delso was able to recall the dangers of certain products for bees, the shortcomings in terms of evaluation and the need for the application of EFSA's evaluation guidelines on pesticide risk for pollinators. The Commission has retained this information.

The report also calls for more independent national experts to represent the Member States within EFSA, to avoid conflicts of interest, and recalls the desirability of having all data available on time during the evaluation of an active substance in order to avoid the use of confirmatory data which allows potentially harmful substances to be found in nature. Other emblematic applications: that agrochemical companies make public all their scientific studies when applying for a marketing authorization and that the health authorities ban the "copy / paste" studies made by firms in their evaluation report of the active substances, like the now famous "Monsanto Papers".

MEPs also call for speeding up the implementation of the pilot project "Environmental monitoring of the use of pesticides by honey bees" and to set up an epidemiological study of the impacts of phytosanitary products on human health.

For Francesco Panella, President of BeeLife, it is essential that this important and forward-looking position is urgently translated into improved public decision-making at EU level.

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Contact : Andrés SALAZAR, BeeLife European Beekeeping Coordination : comms@bee-life.eu

NOTE AUX RÉDACTEURS :

La coordination apicole européenne BeeLife est une association formée par des professionnels du secteur apicole de différents pays de l'Union européenne. Son activité principale est l'étude de l'impact sur les abeilles des menaces environnementales telles que les pesticides ou les organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM).

BeeLife œuvre pour la protection des abeilles en partant du principe que "les abeilles sont le canari dans la mine d'or", tirant la sonnette d'alarme lorsque quelque chose "ne va pas dans l'environnement". En outre, les abeilles créent 30 % de notre alimentation en pollinisant les fruits, les légumes et les cultures arables telles que le tournesol et le colza, ce qui leur confère une valeur intrinsèque que la Coordination s'efforce de protéger.