The EU will retry an agreement on glyphosate on November 27

The European Union (EU) will once again try to renew the license of glyphosate, a herbicide that Brussels proposes to authorize for five more years without the necessary support from the States, and, In the absence of agreement between the countries, the proposal will be submitted to the appeal committee on November 27.

Brussels, Nov 15 (EFE) .- The European Union (EU) will once again try to renew the license of glyphosate, a herbicide that Brussels proposes to authorize for five more years without the necessary support from States, and, in the absence of agreement between countries, the proposal will be submitted to the appeal committee on November 27.

The European Commission (EC) today announced that submit on that date the proposal to said appeal committee, a higher step in the decision procedures that are appealed when an agreement is not reached in the committee ordinary.

After the lack of agreement between the countries at the meeting of November 9, in the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed, chaired by the Commission European Union and in which the Member States are represented, the EU is obliged to take a decision against the clock, since the current license expires on 15 December.

To achieve To approve the EC proposal, which lowered its initial text from ten to five years, support is needed by a majority of 55 percent of the countries, representing 65% of the population.

The meeting voted in favor of the renewal of fourteen countries: Spain, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Against it were Belgium, Greece, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta and Austria, while Germany abstained, Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal and Romania.

Glyphosate is used in Roundup, a widespread herbicide of the multinational Monsanto, and has strong public opposition.

international civic movement Avaaz has collected more than two million signatures against its renewal.