France has dropped plans to allow sugar beet growers to use again this year a pesticide banned over risks to bees, after a European Union court rejected such exemptions, the country's agriculture minister said on Monday.
in 2020 an exemption of up to three years to a general ban on neonicotinoid chemicals, the government had been preparing a third and final annual dispensation to cover the 2023 crop.published on Thursday, the Court of Justice of the European Union said member states cannot offer exemptions to the bloc's ban on crop seeds treated with neonicotinoids.
The three-year exemption was aimed at protecting crops from a disease that ravaged the 2020 sugar beet harvest while giving the sector time to develop other effective crop-protection solutions.
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