More transparency in the authorization procedure for pesticides such as glyphosate, the European Parliament's Special Commission on Pesticides is asking for it in a report that obtained 23 votes in favor and 5 abstentions. In January, the document approved by the Commission will go to the classroom for the final vote.
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More transparency in the authorization procedure for pesticides such as glyphosate, the European Parliament's Special Commission on Pesticides is asking for it in a report that obtained 23 votes in favor and 5 abstentions. In January, the document approved by the Commission will go to the classroom for the final vote.
Thirty-two pages dealing with the problem of plant protection products and glyphosate, Monsanto's herbicide Roundup potentially carcinogenic. Precisely in the wake of the debate on pesticides, a special commission was born in Brussels in February 2018 which cyclically meets to propose guidelines to be adopted by European countries.
First of all, more clarity is needed, the report reads, because so far the decision-making process has resulted insufficiently transparent throughout the entire procedure, from lack of public access to complete studies and raw data to the risk management phase.
Translated it means that all studies taken into consideration by EFSA, or by another European authority, must be public. Free access to citizens to the data on which Europe decides will therefore be the cornerstone of the new authorization process.
Having regard to the opinion of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) on the classification of glyphosate, the Special Commission on the Union Authorization Procedure for Pesticides aims to identify the sectors which can be further improved with regard to the European Union authorization procedure for plant protection products, "by formulating the recommendations it deems necessary to ensure the achievement of a high level of protection of human and animal health and of the environment" .
Therefore, the need to study the neurotoxicity for development, which has effects such as autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and dyslexia, the reduction (to get to the abandonment) of animal experiments; the introduction of a monitoring and surveillance system on how pesticides are used in each state.
But not only that, the commission also expresses itself on the authorization of glyphosate by asking for one risk review.
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Dominella Trunfio
