The European Parliament has again rejected the green pesticide bill following a 10-year extension of Glyphosate

On November 22, the European Parliament rejected a plan to reduce agriculture's reliance on pesticides, another setback in the Europe-wide environmental protection process following a decade-long extension of the herbicide Glyphosate.

By a vote of 299 to 207, with 121 abstentions, MEPs rejected the long-negotiated draft legislation to reduce agricultural dependence on pesticides. The conservative European People's Party (EPP) said the rejection was a positive result as it rejected the extreme approach of the Greens and socialists to impose more and more bans and excessive regulations that would reduce food production in Europe.

In addition to adopting meaningless emission reduction targets, the rejection removes protections for kindergartens, schools, hospitals and the elderly, and removes binding rules on integrated pest management, the Greens/EFA said in a statement. Because key areas were significantly weakened, the green draft was ultimately not supported.

 The proposal for a regulation on the Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products (SUR), which will be resubmitted to the Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, was also rejected.