The Agri Facts Foundation (STAF) is going to file a lawsuit for the first time. A collective of lawyers and lawyers is working on a summons for STAF before the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). It is about communication around a report on the use of plant protection products.
In a statement, the board of STAF states that it is not satisfied with the response of the PBL to the request to adjust the communication about the so-called 'Interim evaluation Crop protection† STAF then decided to ask the judge for a ruling in order to enforce correct publication.
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Everything revolves around the summary in the report. In that summary, the agency describes, as STAF describes, that the number of exceedances of plant protection products has fallen by 15%, while 50% had been agreed. According to STAF, PBL has not communicated clearly about the way in which the 15% has been calculated.
The foundation also asks why a certain calculation method has been chosen, while there are more methods that give different results. "The art of omission has misled stakeholders, politicians and media," said STAF.
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This is in response to it Boerenbusiness article:
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