The EU Court of Justice has announced that information about pesticides, their ingredients and their effects on the environment can no longer be hidden behind commercial confidentiality clauses and instead will have to be made available to those requesting it.
The important decision will make it much easier for campaigners to access information on pesticides and their impacts. The result follows persistent work by Sustain member Pesticide Action Network (PAN UK) and their colleagues at PAN Europe.
The court decided that pesticides were 'emissions to the environment' and were therefore covered by provisions in EU law regarding the release of relevant information. It ruled that 'the confidentiality of commercial and industrial information may not be invoked to preclude the disclosure of such information'.
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Published Friday 25 November 2016
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