Here an incomplete list of opponents and supporters of the ban:
ORGANIZATIONS/ INDIVIDUALS OPPOSING THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S PROPOSED BAN ON NEONICOTINOID INSECTICIDES
DEFRA & Owen Paterson
Syngenta, Bayer, BASF
National Farmers Union
various leading members of beekeeping organizations
ORGANIZATIONS/INDIVIDUALS WHICH SUPPORT THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S PROPOSED BAN ON NEONICOTINOID INSECTICIDES
The European Science Agency
The European Food Safety Agency
The European Parliament
The European Commission
Tonio Bord - EU Commissioner for the Environment
The Dutch Parliament
The French National Assembly
The Polish National Assembly
The German Professional Beekeepers Union
The French Union of Beekeepers (UNAF)
AVAAZ - 2.5 million people have signed the Petition against Neonicotinoids
Buglife
Pesticide Action Network UK
Friends of the earth
The Soil Association
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
The Scottish Wildlife Trust
Lord Debden
Joan Walley - Chair - Environmental Audit Committee
Professor Dave Goulson - bumblebee researcher
Glasgow & District BKA
Cowall BKA
Caddenfoot BKA
The Women's Institute, WI
THE ROYAL WILDLIFE TRUSTS - ALL 47
- Alderney Wildlife Trust
- Avon Wildlife Trust
- Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust
- Brecknock Wildlife Trust, Wales
- Cheshire Wildlife Trust
- Cornwall Wildlife Trust
- Cumbria Wildlife Trust
- Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
- Devon Wildlife Trust
- Dorset Wildlife Trust
- Durham Wildlife Trust
- Essex Wildlife Trust
- Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
- Gwent Wildlife Trust, Wales
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust
- Herefordshire Nature Trust
- Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust
- Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust
- Kent Wildlife Trust
- Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust
- Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
- London Wildlife Trust
- Manx Wildlife Trust / Treisht Beiyn-Feie Vannan, Isle of Man
- Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, Wales
- Norfolk Wildlife Trust (registered as Norfolk Naturalists' Trust)
- North Wales Wildlife Trust, Wales
- Northumberland Wildlife Trust
- Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
- Radnorshire Wildlife Trust, Wales
- Scottish Wildlife Trust, Scotland
- Sheffield Wildlife Trust
- Shropshire Wildlife Trust
- Somerset Wildlife Trust
- Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
- Suffolk Wildlife Trust
- Surrey Wildlife Trust
- Sussex Wildlife Trust
- Tees Valley Wildlife Trust
- Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire
- Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country
- Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside
- Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, Wales
- Ulster Wildlife Trust, Northern Ireland
- Warwickshire Wildlife Trust
- Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
- Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
- Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
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