"The European Practice of Manufacturing and Exporting Banned Pesticides Is a Flagrant Violation of Fundamental Rights"

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TRIBUNE. The European institutions must put an end to this policy of double standards with dramatic consequences for individuals and communities in developing countries, denounces Marcos A. Orellana and Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteurs, in a forum in the "World".

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Press release – 23 June 2025 CITIZEN INSPECTION ON BASF'S CHEMICAL SITE IN GENAY (69) The production and exports of banned pesticides continue in France This day, GMO's voluntary mowers and mowers carry out a citizen inspection at BASF's chemical site in Genay to ensure the absence, within this plant, of pesticides banned in France. A first visit of the FV in March 2022 had revealed the presence of some of these products and in particular the Re…

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An insecticide banned in Europe has been identified in a BASF chemical plant. Despite the 2018 Egalim law, banned substances are still produced and exported from France. Ministries have not taken action. The intrusion of the Voluntary GMO Reapers into the BASF agrochemical giant's plant in Genay, north of Lyon, lasted only thirty minutes on June 23. This "citizen inspection," as environmental activists call it, allowed them to discover a pestici…