(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 11 - The 2009 EU directive on the sustainable use of pesticides (South) must be revised. As soon as the terms of the public consultation launched by the European Commission have expired, FederBio is asking for it as part of the "Change the Earth" campaign (which also includes Legambiente, Lipu, Doctors for the Environment and WWF) in a document that expresses the "needs for a decisive change of course in the use of pesticides ". In particular, according to the document, presented together with other 360 observations from all over Europe, it is a priority to reduce the use of synthetic pesticides by encouraging the entry on the market of alternative products, bio-control of parasites. At the same time, the risks associated with the use of pesticides must be drastically reduced through more stringent and effective rules on minimum safety distances from the population and from organic crops, to effectively protect them from the risk of accidental contamination.
As the European Court of Auditors has highlighted in recent weeks, farmers have little incentive, Federbio highlights in a note, to adopt alternative methods considering that there is no effective link between the objective of reducing the use of pesticides in a concrete and measurable way. and the payments under the title of the CAP. And there is a lack, Federbio complains, of adequate monitoring systems relating to the effective reduction of the use of pesticides in the EU territory. At the Italian level, (as reported by the Ispra analysis on the quality of water processed in 2020), contaminated sites increased by 35% in surface waters and by 14% in underground ones. "Biological agriculture - concludes Maria Grazia Mammuccini, president of FederBio - is the key to a decisive change of course on European agricultural policies. More stringent limits are needed and effective monitoring systems, also activating a control system on the presence of pesticides in the human body, starting with farmers and their families who are among the most exposed subjects ". (HANDLE).
EU: Change the land campaign, pesticides directive must be revised
2020-08-11T15:40:36.321Z
(HANDLE)(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 11 - The 2009 EU directive on the sustainable use of pesticides (South) must be revised. As soon as the terms of the public consultation launched by the European Commission have expired, FederBio is asking for it as part of the "Change the Earth" campaign (which also includes Legambiente, Lipu, Doctors for the Environment and WWF) in a document that expresses the "needs for a...
