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Joint open letter: Publication of the revision of the legislation on the sustainable use of pesticides (SUD)

More than 60 health and environment groups have written to EU Commission President von der Leyen, Executive Vice-President Timmermans and Commissioners Kyriakides, Wojciechowski and Sinkevicius to not postpone the much needed reform of the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive (SUD).

Read the letter here.

Read the response from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety on 12th April 2022 here.

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