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Luxembourg (dpa) - In the dispute over insecticides that are harmful to bees, the chemical giant Bayer failed before the European Court of Justice.
The ECJ on Thursday rejected the group's objections to a ruling of the first instance to ban certain so-called neonicotinoids.
(Case C-499/18 P)
It is about the two products produced by the Bayer Group, Clothianidin and Imidacloprid.
The EU Commission had restricted sales in 2013, along with a third neonicotinoid - thiamethoxam from the manufacturer Syngenta.
The EU court confirmed this in May 2018. Bayer went to the next instance, Syngenta did not.
The ECJ rejected the appeal or called it unfounded.
The highest EU judges pointed out, among other things, that even stricter requirements have now been introduced for the two Bayer products, without the company having filed a complaint.
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The Federation for Environment and Nature Conservation welcomed the Luxembourg judgment as a victory of reason.
"Neonicotinoids endanger bees and other insects enormously and are partly responsible for the dramatic death of insects," said the environmental association.
"The protection of biodiversity is absolutely incompatible with the lifting of the ban on highly effective neurotoxins for bees and wild bees."
Greenpeace also welcomed the ECJ ruling.
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