Cypermethrin ban: Commission initiates "lengthy procedure" instead of complying with EU Court ruling

"The Commission has decided to shelve the matter and initiate a lengthy administrative regarding the review of the EU approval of cypermethrin, a bee-toxic and endocrine-disrupting pesticide, instead of complying with the ruling of the EU Court", PAN Europe said on 14/07/2026.

On December 2025, the Court of Justice of the EU declared, on appeal, the 2021 reapproval of this insecticide "as being illegal". Particularly regarding "the absence of risk assessment of a representative formulation, major data gaps regarding genotoxicity, and by relying on unrealistic and unscientific risk mitigation measures", the ONG specified.

Following this ruling, the Commission decided to launch what is called an "article 21 procedure". This article from the pesticides regulation "aims to take into account…