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"Even though a majority of MEPs and Member States agreed on the need to phase out the use of these kinds of pesticides back in 2011, they all remain in use because the Commission, which is in charge of adopting criteria to classify this kind of hazardous chemicals, has stalled on the matter. The Commission has instead decided to prepare a redundant impact assessment.
This kind of procrastination is very valuable to the chemical industries that sell such products but quite useless and dangerous to our health. We already have strong, scientifically solid criteria that are validated by the WHO and used for the purposes of identifying chemical substances that cause a range of health problems. Banning these is all the more urgent given that very small amounts of these chemicals suffice to seriously disturb the normal functioning of hormones in our bodies.
The Commission had a legal deadline, which expired at the end of 2013, to define which chemicals qualify as endocrine disruptors according to sound scientific criteria. Instead it was circumvented by a strategically timed impact assessment that is not only poorly framed in terms of economic costs, but serves the industryʼs interest in profiting from inaction. This is unacceptable and the Commission must answer for it."@en1
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