Dear Minister,
We call upon you to reject a number of Commission proposals to include further substances1 in Annex I of Directive 91/414/EEC during the next meeting of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCFCAH), Section GM Food & Feed on 3 March. The proposals were scheduled to be discussed and voted in the meeting of the SCFCAH of 27-28 January, but they were withdrawn from the agenda without further explanation. We believe that the European Commission is wrongly proposing to authorise placing on the EU market a number of unacceptable pesticides, including several with mutagenic and hormone mimicking properties. The results from the evaluation conducted by Member States experts and scientific advisors do not justify these proposals.