EU Member States adopt criteria to identify endocrine disruptors

In a press release published on July 4, 2017, European Commission (EC) informed that on the same day the representatives of the European Member States (MS) voted in favor of the latest revision of the EC’s proposal on criteria to identify endocrine disruptors among plant protection products (PPPs). The vote took place during the meeting of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SC-PAFF) in Brussels. From the 28 MS, 21 voted in favor of the proposal, with three (Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden) voting against it, and four (Hungary, Latvia, Poland, UK) having abstained from the vote. In the near future, the EC also “intends to adopt [similar] criteria for biocides” (here, a separate vote by the MS is not required).

Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, called the criteria adoption a “great success” and emphasized that the European Union (EU) is “advancing in the direction of the first regulatory system in the world with legally binding criteria to define what an endocrine disruptor is.”

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