{"id":7141,"date":"2025-10-09T07:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7141"},"modified":"2025-10-09T07:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T07:02:01","slug":"ec-opens-infringement-procedure-against-romania-on-permissive-neonicotinoids-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7141","title":{"rendered":"EC opens infringement procedure against Romania on permissive neonicotinoids regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has decided to open an infringement procedure against Romania (INFR(2025)2146) for failure to comply with the Plant Protection Products Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 1107\/2009), according to <a href=\"https:\/\/g4food.ro\/comisia-europeana-a-deschis-o-procedura-de-infringement-impotriva-romaniei\/?mc_cid=ba6983c94e&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\">G4food.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the European institution, Romania has repeatedly granted emergency authorisations for the use of products containing neonicotinoid substances \u2013 a category of insecticides known for their harmful effects on pollinators, including bees.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the European Commission adopted implementing acts under the same regulation expressly prohibiting the outdoor use of three neonicotinoid substances: imidacloprid, clothianidin, and thiamethoxam.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u201cRomania issued a total of 12 temporary emergency authorisations in 2023 and 2024 for the outdoor use of imidacloprid and thiamethoxam on cereal, maize and sunflower seeds,\u201d according to the Commission.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/danielschreurs_info\">Danielschreurs<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has decided to open an infringement procedure against Romania (INFR(2025)2146) for failure to comply with the Plant Protection Products Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 1107\/2009), according to G4food.ro. According to the European institution, Romania has repeatedly granted emergency authorisations for the use of products containing neonicotinoid substances \u2013 a category of insecticides known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}