Endocrine disruptors : the meps are opposed to the Commission

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Published the 01.10.2017 at 14: 00

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It is not. The meps do not want the definition of endocrine disrupters adopted by the european Commission. The environment committee of the Parliament has adopted a resolution in this sense, this Thursday, with 36 votes in favour and 26 votes against. It calls on all mps to do the front against the proposal of the Commission relating to these mutagenic substances in pesticides.

After years of waiting, the european Commission ended up proposing in June 2016 with a definition of endocrine disruptors in the aim to prohibit those recognized as such in the pesticides. But the findings have disappointed the defenders of health and of the environment. The proposed definition requires a level of scientific evidence is unattainable, allowing, in fact, to almost all substances to remain on the european market.

“The Commission has overstepped its mandate”

France, which opposed so far to this definition, was voted in July, joining the list of signatory countries become the majority. The criteria of definition were adopted, and submitted to the european Parliament.

In the resolution passed on Thursday, meps argue that ” the Commission has exceeded its mandate by proposing to exempt certain substances from the scope of application of the scientific criteria to identify endocrine disruptors in pesticides and biocides “, one can read in a press release.

The european legislation stipulates that an active substance can only be approved if it is not considered to have endocrine disrupting effects on non-target organisms, reminiscent of the parliamentarians.

Include the PE suspected

These latter add that the current proposal does not include a category of endocrine disruptors”, ” suspected, which means that no action can be taken against such substances, unless a complementary proposal cannot be submitted.

The resolution will be put to a vote by the full Parliament at the plenary session next week in Strasbourg.