EFSA Pesticides and bees : call for data

Two years after the decision to restrict the use of three neonicotinoid insecticides (clothianidin, thiamethoxam and imidacloprid), EFSA issued on 22/05/2015 a call for data on the risks posed to bees by these neonicotinoid pesticides applied as seed treatments and granules in the EU. 

Interested parties are urged to provide EFSA with literature data, study reports, national evaluation and/or monitoring data relevant to the evaluation of the risk to honeybees, bumble bees and solitary bees from the uses of the above three substances.

The closing date for submission of information is 30 September 2015.

As a second step, upon receipt of a follow-up mandate from the European Commission, EFSA will then review the material and offer conclusions concerning an updated risk assessment.

EFSA is also currently assessing the risks to bees from foliar uses of these three substances. The Authority will finalise its conclusions by the end of July.