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A meeting of the European Parliament will be held on January 13, 2009, to vote on pesticide-restricting proposals. The National Farmers Union (NFU) and Horticultural Trades Association (HTA), both based in the UK, have campaigned with the Crop Protection Association on the issue. NFU and HTA are calling on growers and other industry professionals who will be affected by the proposed EU legislation – which would ban a number of pesticides commonly used in the industry – to contact their Members of Parliament (MEPs) and ask them to reject the proposals at next week’s meeting.

If the legislation is passed, both groups call for MEPs to support an EU-wide assessment of the legislation’s impact on EU agriculture and horticulture. Said NFU vice president Paul Temple: “I am concerned over the lack of sound science behind the plans and we cannot support measures which reduce the tools available to farmers and growers to produce crops – particularly at a time when we need to be increasing food production, not restricting it.”

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