This page is a part of the corpus (Annexe 1) used to write Stéphane Foucart and neonicotinoids.
Here, I relate what the journalist said in his article "« De nombreux éléments de preuves pointent vers les néonicotinoïdes comme cause majeure » du déclin des abeilles". All quotes, originally in French, were translated by me.
In the "middle of summer", the EU "quietly postponed" the introduction of new risk assessment tests against advice from EFSA and the scientific community. “According to a study, published in October 2017 in the journal PloS One, the biomass of flying insects fell by more than 75% between 1989 and 2016 in around 60 protected areas in Germany."(Hallman et al. 2017)
S. Foucart answers a series of questions. The subject is often too dense to be synthesized, I invite you to consult the article.