Préfet de la Loire-Atlantique v. Maire de La Chapelle-sur-Erdre

Administrative
Politicians
Fabrice Roussel
All
October 9, 2019
France, Nantes

The order banning the use of pesticides in the municipality taken by the mayor of La Chapelle-sur-Erdre on 9/9/2019 is challenged by the prefect of Loire-Atlantique…

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Phyteis (ex UIPP) v. Prime Minister et al.

EU court
Economic stakeholders
Ministère de la Santé et des Solidarités, Ministère de l'Alimentation, de l'Agriculture et de la Pêche, Ministère de la transition écologique et solidaire (environment), ANSES (Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety), Prime Minister
Insecticide, Neonicotinoid, Acetamiprid, Clothianidin, Thiacloprid, Thiamethoxam, Imidacloprid
October 1, 2018
European Union, Luxembourg

By Decree No. 2018-675 of July 30, 2018, France banned the use of five active substances from the neonicotinoid family: acetamiprid, clothianidin, imidacloprid, thiacloprid, thiamethoxam, based on the fourth paragraph of Article 5 of Directive (EU) 2015/1535 of September 9, 2015,…

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Two widows of Indian farm workers et al v. Syngenta

Civil court
Farm/rural workers
Syngenta
Insecticide, Diafenthiuron, Polo
September 18, 2020
Switzerland, Basel

Two widows of Indian farm workers blame Syngenta for the death of their husbands, as well as an Indian farmer for his illness, after the insecticide Polo was sprayed on their fields…

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MAPPP et al v. Syngenta

International
Environmental NGOs, Farm/rural workers, Farmers
Syngenta
Polo, Diafenthiuron, Insecticid
September 17, 2020
International, Bern

On June 16, 2022, the Swiss National Contact Point (NCP) for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises officially…

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Alba Luz Calderon de Cerda, Rafael Cerda Martinez v. Corteva

Civil court
Farm/rural workers
Corteva, Dow Chemical, City of Avenal, John A. Kochergen Properties, City of Huron, Woolf Farming Co, Cottonwest, LLC, Applicator ID 1020351
Chlorpyrifos, Insecticide, Organophosphate
September 16, 2020
United States

Parents say their son Rafael was exposed to chlorpyrifos in the uterus and as infant, through contaminated drinking water,…

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