A ban on the herbicide glyphosate, sold commercially by Monsanto as Roundup - along with more transparent scientific evaluations of pesticides and a overall reduction in their use - should be an EU priority, citizens said on Monday (20 November) at the European Parliament. The petition was part of a initiative signed by over 1.3 million Europeans ahead of the final vote (27 November) by EU member states on a five-year renewal of the glyphosate licence, due to expire on 15 December... The request to ban glyphosate, citizens say in the petition, is because the herbicide is "a serious threat to human health" and "its negative impacts on the environment and biodiversity are clearly documented"... The [...] petition [...] highlights the lack of transparency of EU scientific evaluation procedures for pesticides... The [...] final proposal of the citizens' initiative concerns an EU-wide mandatory reduction target for the use of pesticides.