Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024

Tabled by Ana Miranda Paz

Added: 5a. Appreciates the work performed by the Committee on Petitions in urging the Commission to take action in the light of the case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which confirmed that the current rough tests on pesticides, as set out in the relevant EU law’s provisions, are insufficient to assess and ensure the absence of long-term toxic effects for both human health and the environment, including for the mixture of the pesticides’ active substances declared as co-formulants, given that this mixture is generally more toxic than any active substance alone; underlines that the European Food Safety Authority acknowledged that it does not have any exhaustive methods to evaluate the effects resulting from the interaction between the different compounds of pesticides, which is what the petitioners asked about by petitioning Parliament;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE776.240v01-00