Bayer Loses Fight Over Chemicals EU Blamed for Killing Bees
- EU imposed restrictions in 2013 amid concerns about bee deaths
- Bayer, Syngenta three years ago lost a first EU court fight
Honey bees.
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Bayer AG lost its fight to topple a European Union ban on controversial insecticides that regulators blame for killing honeybees.
The EU Court of Justice dismissed the appeal, finding there were no legal errors in the European Commission’s decision to impose restrictions on the substances’ use, based on concerns that the chemicals posed “high acute risks for bees” and “the survival and development of colonies in several crops.”