Ministers have used their Brexit freedoms to approve the use of a banned bee-killing pesticide 🔴 The WildlifeTrusts have described the decision as “unacceptable”, but farmers insisted that it was necessary to protect their crops from a devastating di...
The move comes only a month after Therese Coffey, the Environment Secretary, committed the UK to halving the impact of pesticides on the environment and despite the Government’s own expert panel recommending against the move.
The Wildlife Trusts have described the decision as “unacceptable”, but farmers insisted that it was necessary to protect their crops from a devastating disease. The measure applies only to sugar beet farmers, whose crop is at risk from the “beet yellows virus”, which is spread by aphids. It damages the root vegetable’s leaves and can dramatically reduce yields.It’s the, but the first since the ruling by the European court against emergency use.
The pesticide, along with other neonicotinoids, were banned by the EU in 2013 and, so far, that law has been retained by the UK. The ban on derogations, however, does not apply to Britain because of Brexit. Before farmers can make use of the chemical, an independent scientific modelling process must find that the spread of the virus is likely to reach beyond pre-set threshold. In both 2021 and 2022, that level was reached.
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