After weeks of teasing, the EU executive finally unveiled its long-awaited plan to revise the bloc’s plant protection product framework last week – but its presentation left more questions than answers.
The sustainable use of pesticides regulation (SUR) is designed to pave the way toward the bloc’s ambitions to slash in half the use and risk of chemical pesticides by 2030, as set out in the Green Deal’s food chapter, known as the Farm to Fork strategy.
While this might all sound good on paper, translating this into the fields will be a costly endeavour.
Where is this money coming from? Don’t worry – it’s all from the
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), according to EU Food Safety
Commissioner Stella Kyriakides. (...)
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